Phone: 408-924-1241
Email: tim.lakose@sjsu.edu
Appointed in April 2011, Tim La Kose, a major college head coach with more than 350 wins, is in his third year as the San José State University women[apos]s basketball head coach.
In his 20 seasons coaching women[apos]s basketball, he has a 369-194 win-loss record. Nine times, his teams won 20 or more games. La Kose and his teams participated in 12 post-season tournaments.
In his first season guiding the Spartans, La Kose was honored by his coaching peers in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) with the WAC Coach of the Year Award. He led San Jose State, which had won just 13 games in the previous four seasons, to 11 wins and a bid in the WAC Basketball Tournament.
He came to the Spartans after coaching the 10 seasons at Cal State Bakersfield. La Kose posted a 211-89 record at the helm of the Roadrunners. His teams won 20 or more games in a season seven times, competed in five NCAA Division II Championship tournaments, one NCAA Division I Independent tournament and two NCAA Division I Women[apos]s Basketball Invitationals (WBI).
In 2009 and in 2010, his coaching peers voted him the National Division I Independent Coach of the Year.
His first head coaching position was at California Lutheran University. In eight seasons (1994-2001), Cal Lutheran posted a 136-67 win-loss record, won five conference championships and participated in four NCAA Division III Championship tournaments. When he departed for Cal State Bakersfield after the 2001 season, he was the school[apos]s winningest coach in women[apos]s basketball.
La Kose is a 1991 graduate of Cal State Northridge. He earned his master[apos]s degree from California Lutheran University in 1995.
He and his wife, Ann, are the parents of two daughters.