Former FSCC coach moves up to Division I
HUTCHINSON, Kan. -- The Hutchinson Community College athletic department announced last week the resignation of women's basketball head coach Nathan Daume, who is leaving for an opportunity to coach at the NCAA Division I level.
Daume is taking an assistant's job at Florida Gulf Coast University, a program that is moving to Division I for the 2007-08 season. The school is located in Fort Myers, Fla.
Daume was head women's coach at Fort Scott Community College for four years, beginning with the 1998-99 season. He led the Greyhounds to a 63-63 record during his tenure and two appearances in the Region VI version of the elite eight. FSCC lost in the quarterfinals at Salina, Kan, in 2001 and advanced to the semifinals in 2002.
The next year, Daume, a graduate of the University of Missouri, went to Hutchinson, where he had a record of 97-59 in five seasons. In his nine years of junior-college coaching, Daume had only two losing seasons: His first two at FSCC, when he had to rebuild a program that had gone thorugh three coaches in as many seasons.
That first year, Daume's Greyhounds won only six games. The next year, they won 12 but qualified for the Region VI Tournament for the first time since 1988-89, which was well before the field was expanded to include the top eight teams from each division of the Jayhawk Conference.
One of Daume's biggest victories as a head coach came on Feb. 28, 2004, when Hutchinson defeated Seward County 64-50 at the Green House in Liberal which snapped Seward's record 135-game home-court winning streak. As it turned out, Daume also won the 100th game of his coaching career on that night.
Daume also had great success in moving players on to the four-year level. In five seasons, eight Lady Dragons moved on to the Division I level, six more to Division II and four others to NAIA schools. While at FSCC, at least three players he recruited were able to move on to Division I schools.
Daume's 63 wins are second-most in FSCC history, just one behind Kevin Swope, who coached from 1987-87 to 1990-91. His .500 winning percentage is tied for second all-time with Kristy Guffey, who herself left FSCC after last season to take an assistant's job at Division I Missouri State University. Larry Krull is FSCC's winningest coach by percentage, going 46-44 (.511) from 1980-81 to 1982-83.
Some information for this report courtesy of Hutchinson Community College sports information director Steve Carpenter.