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Sport(s)
  
Basketball

1991–1995
  
Wayland Baptist

Conference
  
Big 12 Conference

Annual salary
  
$300,000

Role
  
Basketball Coach

Record
  
4–4

Name
  
Brandon Schneider

Title
  
Head coach

1995–1998
  
Emporia State (asst.)


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Born
  
December 4, 1971 (age 52) Canyon, Texas (
1971-12-04
)

Team
  
Kansas Jayhawks women's basketball

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Brandon Schneider (born December 4, 1971) is an American college women's basketball coach at the University of Kansas. Schneider was previously the head coach, from 2010 to 2015, for Stephen F. Austin State University, and from 1998 to 2010 at Emporia State University, a NCAA Division II school located in Emporia, Kansas, where he led the team to the 2010 National Championship.

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Coaching career

After a successful playing career at Wayland Baptist University, Schneider was hired as an assistant coach at Emporia State University (ESU) in 1995. After three years of being an assistant coach, Schneider was promoted to head coach, where he stayed for 12 years compiling an overall record of 306–72.

Emporia State

After being an assistant coach for three years, Schneider was promoted to head coach after head coach Cindy Stein left for the University of Missouri. In Schneider's 12 years at the helm, he became the winningest coach in Emporia State history with a record of 306–72. While at Emporia State, Schneider won six MIAA regular season titles, three MIAA tournaments, four Regional titles and the school’s first-ever Division II National title in any sport. Schneider led the Lady Hornets to 12 NCAA Tournaments, seven MIAA Regular Season Championships, four MIAA Tournament Championships, four NCAA II South Central Regional Championships, and two NCAA II Final Four Appearances.

Stephen F. Austin

In April 2010, one month after leading Emporia State to a National Championship, Schneider became head coach at Stephen F. Austin State University. Schneider won his first conference title during the 2013–14 season with a 13–5 record in league play and reached the championship game of the Women's Basketball Invitational.

Kansas

On April 21, 2015, Schneider was introduced as the new head coach at the University of Kansas, following Bonnie Henrickson, who was fired in March, 2015.

Personal life

Schneider's father, Bob, was one of the most successful women's coaches at the NCAA Division II level, having served as the head coach at West Texas A&M from 1981 to 2006. They became the first father/son combination to take teams to the Elite Eight. Schneider and his wife Ali, have two sons, Cash and Cole.

References

Brandon Schneider Wikipedia