| After 40 years of coaching Men's Basketball, Coach Roland
Wierwille will be stepping down as the Men’s Head Basketball
Coach. Berea College Academic Vice President and Provost David
B. Porter announced Coach Wierwille’s plan to the campus
community on Wednesday. At the end of the Spring 2002 semester,
Wierwille will take sabbatical leave for the coming Fall 2002
and January 2003 Short Term. He will return to the College
during the 2003 Spring Term, resuming his duties as co-athletic
director, golf team coach, and teacher in the physical education
department. He will be retiring from the College at the end
of the 2003-04 academic year.
Wierwille’s career has garnered much recognition for
his many accomplishments. In 1999 he was inducted into the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame.
Under his leadership the men's basketball teams have won 464
games and made it to the Final Four of the NAIA Division II
national tournament. Further recognition was given Wierwille
in 1997 in Washington, DC, when he received an award from the
National Council on Communicative Disorders for his successful
comeback after suffering a stroke in November 1994. He was
inducted into the Hall of Distinguished Alumni at Eastern Kentucky
University in 1995.
Prior to coming to Berea College, Wierwille was assistant
coach for seven years at Transylvania University under C.M.
Newton and Lee Rose. Since that time he has served on coaching
staffs at the international level, assisting the U.S. Team
(Division I) in the World University Games in Japan and the
Jones Cup Competition in Taiwan with Lute Olson, University
of Arizona.
John Mills, who served as assistant coach under Wierwille
during the 2001-02 season, has been promoted to the position
of head coach for the coming 2002 - 03 season. Mills is also
a member of the Berea College Residential Life Collegium. A
national search to fill the Men's Basketball head coaching
position will be conducted in 2003-04 after Wierwille's retirement.
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