UC Davis Athletics

Kouba enters his 16th season with the UC Davis men's basketball program and is responsible for practice and game statistics, student-athlete academic progress, social network site administration, and public relations. 

A 1974 graduate of Northern Iowa, Kouba received his Ph.D in mathematics from Colorado State in 1982. He is currently a lecturer in the UC Davis Department of Mathematics, for which he was named Lecturer of the Year in 1992, 1998, and 2006. 

For 15 years, Kouba served as director for his department's successful Emerging Scholars Program (ESP), an honors, cooperative-learning calculus laboratory. In May 2006, Kouba was one of three professors in the College of Letters and Science selected for an ASUCD Excellence in Education Award. In May 2007 he was chosen by ASUCD as its top professor in the College of Letters and Science. 

Kouba has the distinction of being one of three Aggie basketball staff members with an NCAA championship ring, along with assistant coaches Kevin Nosek and Brandon Laird. He served as a volunteer assistant coach for the 1997-1998 UC Davis team which won the NCAA Div. II championship. 

In March of 2006, Kouba was one of 12 players selected to the Chico Force, a semi-pro team in the International Basketball League. Kouba also remains active in California Masters and World Masters basketball competitions. 

During the summer of 2009 Kouba traveled to the Caribbean island nation of Antigua-Barbuda, where he spent one month with Coach Ron DuBois (former Aggie assistant coach under Coach Gary Stewart), who had been recently named the head coach for the men's senior national basketball team there . Kouba worked with Coach DuBois, his team, and local youth and traveled with the team to the British Virgin Islands for a week-long, eight-team Caribbean basketball tournament, which was won by Team Jamaica. 

He has a son, Robert, who resides in Davis.