Jeff Hans is in his first season as the top assistant coach for the women’s basketball program at Northern Kentucky University. Hans assists in all areas of coaching, scouting and recruiting for the Norse.

Hans spent the past two seasons as the girls’ basketball head coach at Lexington Catholic High School and guided the team to a 59-9 record. Lexington Catholic also won the district championship last season and twice finished as regional runner-up under Hans.

Prior to that, Hans served as the girls’ basketball head coach at St. Henry High School from 2004-06.

“Jeff is a solid basketball coach with a great deal of experience, and we are very fortunate to have him join our program,” Winstel said, noting Hans served as a graduate assistant at NKU during the 2001-02 season. “He is familiar with our program from his time as a graduate assistant, and I am very glad he is back at NKU.”

A 1995 graduate of National Trail High School in New Paris, Ohio, Hans spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Wilmington College. The Lady Quakers posted a 37-16 record during his two years at Wilmington.

Hans became the graduate assistant coach at NKU in 2001-02, and the Norse captured the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Region championship by defeating Southern Indiana at Evansville, Ind. NKU posted a 26-7 record that season and played in the Elite Eight at Rochester, Minn.

Hans, who also spent two years as an assistant coach at Indiana State University from 2002-04, is a 1999 graduate of Wilmington, where he received a B.S. in agriculture. He and his wife, Stacee, reside in Independence with their two daughters, Kailynn (4) and Keira (1).