Eastern names Lipold men's assistant coach

Former Eagle operations assistant is elevated to a basketball coaching role for defending Big Sky Conference champions

Last updated 11/5/2020 at 3:37pm

CHENEY – The 2020-21 Eastern Washington University men’s basketball season will include a new assistant coach, as T.J. Lipold moves from an operations position to a coaching role for the Eagles. Replacing Lipold as EWU’s director of basketball operations is Shawn James, a veteran of two previous seasons with the program.

Lipold (pronounced “Lip-old”) began working for the program in June of 2017 in an assistant director of basketball operations/video coordinator role. The 2020-21 season will be his fourth overall at EWU, and his first as an assistant coach after spending 2019...

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