Zach Stevens joins Grinnell College as assistant men's basketball coach

GRINNELL, Iowa - Zach Stevens has joined Grinnell College as the new assistant men's basketball coach.

Stevens comes from Waynesburg University in Pennsylvania, where he was assistant men's basketball coach and equipment manager for athletics.

"We are thrilled to welcome Zach to our staff," said Grinnell head coach David Arseneault Jr. "He's going to be a perfect fit for our program and institution with his positive attitude, ability to build relationships and relentless work ethic

Stevens spent the 2024-25 season as an assistant coach at Nebraska Wesleyan University, where the Prairie Wolves went 20-7 and finished as the American Rivers Conference runner-up in the regular season standings and were ARC Tournament finalists.

With Stevens on staff, the Prairie Wolves had three players receive all-conference accolades, including the ARC Defensive Player of the Year. Nebraska Wesleyan led the ARC and ranked top 20 nationally in scoring defense, field goal percentage defense and 3-point percentage defense.

Prior to his time with Prairie Wolves, Stevens coached at Gordon College (Mass.), Regis College (Mass.), and Plymouth State University (N.H.).

During his two-year stint at Regis, the Pride achieved their first winning season in eight years and first Great Northeast Athletic Conference Tournament win in team history in 2022. The following year Regis notched 14 wins, the second-most in program history, and returned to the GNAC Tournament.

Stevens began his coaching career at Plymouth State, where he was an assistant for four seasons. While with the Panthers, Stevens recruited four eventual 1,000-point scorers. In the 2019-20 campaign, Plymouth State went 16-11 and reached the Little East Conference Tournament semifinals for the first time in 15 years.

Stevens played collegiately for two seasons at NHTI where he was the United States Collegiate Athletic Association national 3-point contest winner in 2013 and set the Lynx's program record with nine made 3-pointers in a single game. Stevens went on to play three seasons at Plymouth State.

Stevens graduated from Plymouth State in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. He earned a Master's Degree in Education from Regis in 2023.

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