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 15-year coaching veteran in women's basketball, enters his first head coaching job fresh off a six-year stint 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 season with the Golden Suns program in 2007-08.

Personal:
Wilbers is 39 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 (8) and a son, Brett (3).

Amy White
Assistant Women's Basketball Coach /
Head Women's Golf Coach

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

Education:
High School
Cabot High School (Cabot, Ark.), 1999
College:
Arkansas Tech University, Bachelor of Science (Business Administration), 2004.

Playing Experience:
White lettered and played two season as a forward for the Golden Suns from 1999-01 under former Tech coach Joe Foley and lettered for three seasons (2002-04) in women's golf, including playing on Tech's initial women's golf team in 2002. Prior to Tech, White lettered for three seasons in basketball, golf and track and field at Cabot High School in Cabot, Ark. Was a two-time All-State performer in all three sports for the Lady Panthers.

Coaching Experience:
In her first season as Tech's women's golf coach, helped lead the Golden Suns to a school-best second-place finish at the 2007 GSC Women's Golf Championships and also coached the school's first-ever All-GSC Women's Golf selections, as Jamie Moore was named a First-Team selection and Danielle Lewis was a Second-Team selection. 

Personal:
White is 25 years old and was born on Nov. 18, 1980, in Cabot, Ark. Is the daughter of Johnny and JoAnn White of Cabot, Ark. and has one sister, Kelly. Her father, Johnny, is the athletic director at Cabot High School.

At Tech:
White will be entering her second season coaching both women's basketball and women's golf at Tech in 2007-08. Prior to becoming an assistant women's basketball coach, White spent the 2005-06 season as a graduate assistant coach for both the Golden Suns basketball and golf teams.

Julio Cesar Pacheco Filho
Graduate Assistant / Women's Basketball

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 year as a Graduate Assistant on Dave Wilber’s staff at Arkansas Tech. 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 assists 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 graduate assistant as part of the Golden Suns Basketball Program.