Contact Info.
Phone: 479-968-0285
E-Mail: dwilbers@atu.edu

Education:
High School:
Liberal High School (Liberal, Kan.), 1986
College:
Seward County Community College (Liberal, Kan.), Associate of Arts, 1988
Oklahoma Christian (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Bachelor of Science, 1991
Fort Hays State University (Hays, Kan.), Master of Arts, Ed. Admin, 1997

Coaching Experience:
Wilbers, who is a 16-year coaching veteran in women's basketball, enters his second season at the helm of the Golden Suns, the fourth all-time winningest NCAA Division II women's basketball program.  In his first season at Tech, Wilbers led the Golden Suns to a 26-6 overall record and a berth in the NCAA Division II Basketball Tournament.  Wilbers' first team finished runner-up at the Gulf South Conference Tournament, advanced to the second round of the NCAA D-II South Regional and finished the season with a No. 16 ranking in the final WBCA Top 25 Coaches' Poll.  In addition, Amanda Grappe became the program's 14th different Golden Sun player to earn All-American honors in 2007-08.  Prior to coming to Tech, Wilbers spent six years as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Oral Roberts University, an NCAA Division I school in Tulsa, Okla., that is a member of the Mid-Continent Conference. While at ORU, Wilbers was responsible for recruiting three straight heralded recruiting classes that helped the Golden Eagles to win two Mid-Con Tournament championships, two Mid-Con regular season titles and earn two berths in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. In addition, ORU earned a WNIT bid the season (2006) it failed to earn an NCAA berth. Prior to Oral Roberts, Wilbers spent three season on Cindy Stein's staff at the University of Missouri of the Big 12 Conference, as the first assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. While at Missouri, the Lady Tigers made it to the Sweet 16 of the 2001 NCAA Basketball Tournament and finished with a 22-10 overall record. In his three years in Columbia, Mo., the Lady Tigers showed consistent improvement as they won 13 games in 1988-89, 18 games in 1989-90 and 22 games in 2000-01.  Before heading to Missouri, Wilbers served as the assistant women's basketball and head volleyball coach at Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kan., for five years (1993-98).  While at Seward, Wilbers helped lead the women's basketball program to an overall record of 143-21 and four Jayhawk Conference Western Division Championships ('94, '96, '97 and '98). In addition, SCCC made two straight appearances (1996-97 and 1997-98) in the NJCAA Region IV Final Four. Wilbers volleyball teams at Seward set a school record for wins and winning percentage in 1996, going 54-6 (.900) and finishing second in the Jayhawk Conference Western Division. The 1996 volleyball squad at SCCC finished the season with a No. 9 national ranking. Wilbers began his college coaching career in 1992 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In addition to his college coaching experience, Wilbers also spent one season (1991-92) as the head girls basketball and softball coach at Welch High School in Welch, Okla. He also served as an assistant football coach at WHS. He also spent one year (1990-91) coaching high school basketball at Putnam City High School in Putnam City, Okla.

At Tech: 
Wilbers was named Tech's sixth women's head coach on April 30, 2007. He will be entering his second season with the Golden Suns program in 2008-09. In his first season with the Golden Suns in 2007-08, Wilbers led Tech to 26-6 record and a No. 16 ranking in the final USA Today/ESPN WBCA Top 25 Coaches' Poll. Along the way, Tech finished as runners-up at the GSC Tournament for the second consecutive season and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division II South Regional for the second straight year.

Personal:
Wilbers is 40 years old. He was born December 18, 1967 in Kansas City, Missouri. He is married to the former Christina Urton and the couple have two children, a daughter, Bailey (10) and a son, Brett (5).

Julio Pacheco Filho
Assistant Women's Basketball Coach

Contact Info.
Phone: (479) 964-0538
Fax: (479) 964-0829
E-Mail: jpachecofilho@atu.edu

Education:
High School:
Unificado HS (Itajai, SC, Brazil), 1999
College:
Federal University of Santa Catarina (Florianopolis, SC, Brazil), 2005

Previous Experience:
Pacheco, who has vast experience coaching internationally, enters his first season as an assistant coach for the Golden Suns after serving last year as a Graduate Assistant Coach on Dave Wilbers' staff. Previously, before coming to Tech, Pacheco was the Head Men’s Basketball Coach for the Basketball Association of Itajai (Itajai, SC, Brazil) where he led a team made up of 16 to 19 year olds. While there, he competed in the Santa Catarina State Tournament. Prior to that, in 2005-06, Pacheco was the Head Men’s Basketball Coach in the Association of the Itajai Valley (Balneario Camboriu, SC, Brazil). While there, he coaced 15 to 18 year olds and he earned a second place finish at the Santa Catarina Open Games. Pacheco also served as the Santa Catarina Team Coach where he obtained the Brazilian Championship with kids ages 14 to 16, as well as, holding the State Champions title for the Student Olympic Games of Santa Catarina. Pacheco has also served as a physical education teacher at the Middle School Pedro Paulo Rebelo (Itajai, Brazil). While in that position, Pacheco taught the basis of physical activities and sports initiation, supervised promotional events, and designed promotional materials. Pacheco also served as a Student Teacher for Basketball at the Federal University of Santa Catarina from 2001-03. In that role, Pacheco helped assist in teaching methods during practice and he also lectured the principles of basketball to students from other schools. During his time as an undergraduate student, Pacheco gained valuable experience on a four-month foreign exchange program where he served as a student assistant to the men’s basketball team at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga. While at Kennesaw, Pacheco assisted the coaches with day-to-day practices, worked as coordinator for in game operations, and taped practices and games.

At Tech: 
Pacheco will begin his first season as a full-time assistant coach with the Golden Suns after serving as a graduate assistant coach during the 2007-08 season.