UAA hires Altenhofen to lead women's basketball program

UAA Athletic Director Steve Cobb announced Tuesday that Nathan Altenhofen has been hired as the Seawolves' women's basketball coach.

The ninth head coach in program history, Altenhofen comes to UAA having most recently served as an assistant at Division I Indiana University. Prior to that, he spent six years as a collegiate head coach from 2004-10, compiling a 153-40 record at Odessa College in Texas, where his team won the 2007 NJCAA national title, and Saint Ambrose University in Iowa.

"My wife and I feel very blessed with this great opportunity to be the next women's basketball coach at Alaska Anchorage," said Altenhofen, who hails originally from Springfield, Minn. "The women's basketball program has been among the top 10 programs in NCAA Division II for the past five years, and I look forward to the challenge of maintaining that success and the new goals that come with it. I am honored and would like to thank Chancellor Tom Case and Dr. Cobb for this opportunity. Our family also looks forward to being actively involved in the Anchorage community."

For more background on Altenhofen's previous coaching experience, see the full story at GoSeawolves.com.