April 16, 2003
DAVIS, Calif. -
Todd Lee, associate head men's basketball coach at UC Irvine, will be interviewed Thursday for the vacant UC Davis men's basketball head coaching position, Director of Athletics Greg Warzecka announced.
Lee is the second candidate to be interviewed for the opening, following Stanford assistant men's head coach Eric Reveno, who interviewed on Wednesday. The position was created when former coach Brian Fogel announced his resignation on Mar. 20.
Lee has served in his current role since the beginning of the 2001-02 season and is in his sixth overall at UC Irvine. He served as assistant coach from 1997-2001 and has been on UC Irvine Head Coach Pat Douglass' staff for the past nine years. Prior to UC Irvine, Lee was an assistant coach for Douglass at Cal State Bakersfield from 1994-97, helping the Roadrunners capture the 1997 NCAA Division II championship.
Prior to Cal State Bakersfield, Lee was an assistant coach for two seasons with the Rapid City (S.D.) Thrillers of the Continental Basketball Association. Working under head coach Eric Musselman, who holds a similar position with the Golden State Warriors of the NBA, Lee helped the Thrillers post a CBA-best, two-year record of 81-31. During that time he also organized and coached the first professional basketball team ever to tour China, finishing 5-0 against the Chinese National Army.
Lee's first coaching assignment came in 1987 when he began a two-year stint as assistant coach at Southwestern College in Chula Vista. In 1989 he moved on to the University of San Diego where he served three years as an assistant coach under Hank Egan, who is now an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors.
Lee graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1986 with a degree in business administration and will earn his master's degree in education next month from Azusa Pacific. He and his wife, Kim, have two sons, Carson and Jackson.
Warzecka said other candidates will be announced as they arrive on campus for their interviews.
