Bobby Brasel enters his seventh season as a member of the Jaguar coaching staff and is in charge of junior college recruiting.
Prior to coming to USA, Brasel spent seven seasons as head coach at Garden City (Kan.) Community College. During Brasel’s tenure, he resurrected the Lady Broncobuster basketball program, which had only won 38 percent of its all-time games prior to his arrival and led the program to a winning record in 2001, its first since the 1995 season. Under the direction of Brasel, the Lady Busters made six postseason appearances, highlighted by a trip to the NJCAA Final Four in 2003. Garden City also won the Jayhawk Conference and the Region 6 titles that same season.
Brasel, whose teams compiled a 111-108 win-loss record, also holds the record for most wins by a women’s basketball coach at Garden City, and his Lady Busters were routinely ranked in the national top 25. While at the helm, his teams either set or tied over 35 school records.
Additionally, Brasel coached and recruited two NJCAA All-Americans, eight Academic All-Americans and sent at least one player to the Division I level every year he was at GCCC. His efforts also earned him Coach-of-the-Year honors from the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference and the NJCAA District E in 2003. Over his career at GCCC, Brasel’s players compiled a 98 percent graduation rate.
Prior to going over to the women’s side, Brasel served as an assistant coach on the men’s side at Garden City, New Mexico State and Howard Junior College. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in mass communication from the University of Texas at the Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas, in 1993. Brasel is a native of Big Spring, Texas.
