University of Wisconsin Green Bay Athletics

The Borseth File
Birthday: June 9
Hometown: Bessemer, Mich.
Alma Mater (Year): Lake Superior State University (1976)
Degree: Business Administration

Coaching Experience:
2012-present: Head Coach, Green Bay
2007-2012: Head Coach, Michigan
1998-2007: Head Coach, Green Bay
1987-1998: Head Coach, Michigan Tech

Honors and awards:
Nine-time Coach of the Year

Championships:
20-time regular season champion as a coach (four with Michigan Tech, 16 with UWGB)
15-time conference tournament champion as a coach (one with Michigan Tech, 14 with UWGB)

Worth noting:
Coach Borseth began his coaching career at a minimum security prison where he ran open gyms for inmates.
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Kevin Borseth recently concluded his 37th season as a head coach in 2023-24, and 21st overall with the Green Bay Phoenix. He ranks 20th all-time among NCAA women's basketball coaches in total wins and eighth among active coaches with a 821-316 record. Borseth's overall record at Green Bay stands at 509-146 and 308-46 in the Horizon League. In 26 seasons as a Division I head coach with stops at Green Bay and the University of Michigan, Borseth is 596-218.

He returned to Green Bay in the spring of 2012 after spending five seasons as the head coach at the University of Michigan, where he compiled an 87-73 record in five seasons. He took over a program that had won just 21 games in the prior three seasons combined and led the Wolverines to 19 wins and a postseason berth in his first season in 2007-08. Borseth led the Wolverines to three postseasons, including a trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2012, the program's first since 2000-01.

Under Borseth's watch from 1998-2007, Green Bay advanced to the postseason in all nine seasons, including seven trips to the NCAA Tournament. The Phoenix also won the regular season conference championship in each of his nine seasons at the helm, beginning a stretch that currently stands at 14. So far in his second stint with Green Bay, the Phoenix has seven regular season championships and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in five of its eight postseason appearances. 

During his time at Green Bay, Borseth guided the program to its first two NCAA Tournament victories with wins over Washington in 2003 and New Mexico in 2007. He has also coached a number of the most legendary players in the program's storied history, including the top three all-time leading scorers: Chari Nordgaard, Nicole Soulis, and Mehryn Kraker. He also recruited recent standouts Celeste Hoewisch, Kayla Tetschlag, and Julie Wojta to Green Bay.

As a member of the Laker basketball roster at Lake Superior State University, Borseth helped his team to a 27-3 record over two years as well as a 1976 NAIA championship berth. Prior to his time at LSSU, Borseth attended Gogebic Community College and played for the Samson basketball team.

Borseth and his wife Connie have five children: KC, Kayla, Carli, Kaitlyn, and Kale. He became a grandfather last fall.
 

Kevin Borseth All-Time Head Coaching Record