Head coach Kevin Borseth announced the addition of Clyde Manns to the women's basketball staff on July 3, 2019. Manns, who spent 2018-19 season with Rhode Island as an assistant coach working with the team’s guards, brings nearly two decades of coaching experience to the Phoenix staff. Prior to his arrival at Rhode Island, he served as an assistant coach at Valparaiso.
Manns was an assistant coach at La Roche College for six seasons, a stint which included an Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship team in 2003-04. From there, he became the head men's coach at Penn State-Greater Allegheny from 2008-14, taking his team to three conference playoff appearances.
Penn State-Greater Allegheny had won only five games in two years before Manns' arrival, and it won 10 games his first season and 14 games his second year, helping Manns finish as the conference's Coach of the Year runner-up. Manns joined the Washington & Jefferson coaching staff prior to the 2015-16 season, then spent the 2016-17 season at Chatham, where he helped the Cougar men reach the Presidents' Athletic Conference playoffs as a second-year program.
Before joining the coaching ranks, Manns had a successful professional playing career in the American Basketball Association (ABA), United States Basketball League (USBL) and the International Basketball League (IBL). Manns was inducted into the Pittsburgh City League All-Sports Hall of Fame in 2017, solidifying his status as one of the greatest student-athletes in one of the nation's most recognized and respected high school conferences.
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