Emporia State hires K-State assistant as next head women’s basketball coach

EMPORIA (KSNT)- Emporia State women’s basketball didn’t have to go far to find its next head women’s basketball coach.

On Friday, ESU announced the hiring of Brian Ostermann as its next head coach. Ostermann comes to Emporia from Manhattan, Kansas, where he served at the associate head coach for K-State women’s basketball.

Ostermann brings with him 34 years of college basketball coaching experience, including nine with the Wildcats. He also spent time coaching at TCU and at DII and junior college schools.

Ostermann will be the eighth head coach of the Lady Hornet basketball program.