Coaches 1989-2003

Robin Parker coached the women’s basketball team from 1989-1991 when it was shut down due to Oregon Ballot Measure 5, which was enacted in 1990.

For one year Pete Whisler was the coach of the baseball team until it was forced to be dropped due to Oregon Ballot Measure 5 which was enacted in 1990. However, in 2001 the team was started up again and he was made head coach once more. This time he held the potion for 7 years.

In the interim years of 1990-200 Pete Whisler coached the Mazama Highschool’s baseball team with great success. He won the 1996 4A Coach of the Year Award. After he second time coaching at Oregon Tech he was the assistant baseball coach at Henley Highschool. He returned to coaching the Mazama team in spring of 2021.

Craig Howard coached the football team from 1990 to its final year 1993, when the football program was dropped due to Oregon Ballot Measure 5 which was enacted in 1990.

After leaving Oregon Tech Craig Howard coached at 2 high schools and then at Southern Oregon University. He passed away in 2017 at the age of 64.

Takashi Hirata coached the wrestling team for its final year. The wrestling team was discontinued due to Oregon Ballot Measure 5, which was enacted in 1990.

In 1995 the cross-country team and the track team was restarted for both men and women and Ken Coffman was hired as the coach for all these teams. In 2009 he resigned from the cross-country coaching position, however he continued to coach the track and field team until 2011 when Jack Kegg took over as head coach. 

Leon Wilcox coached the newly restarted women’s volleyball team from 1998-2000, when Tom Loney took over. After Oregon Tech he went on to become a high school math teach, volleyball coach, and track coach at multiple high schools over the years.

Mike Cornachione coached newly rebegun women’s soccer team from 1999-2002. He resigned from the position after only two seasons because he was also a full-time mechanical engineering professor and father of three and wanted to make sure the team was coached by someone who had enough time to do the team justice. He also stated he wanted to be able to dedicate more time to his family and his growing sons.

Tom Loney coached the women’s volleyball team from 2000-2002. After this he coached the women’s basketball team and he held that position until 2007. He was then the Associate Athletic Director of Oregon Tech.

Later he went on to become the athletic director of Henley High School.

Bill Reinhard coaches the track and field team in pole vaulting and throwing. He also oversees fall training such as weightlifting.

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From 2001-2011 Kevin Brown coached the rugby club at Oregon Tech. Kevin Brown is a communications professor at Oregon Tech.

Jeff Corkill served as the head coach for the men and women’s golf team at Oregon Tech for 8 years before stepping down in 2019-2020. He continues to serve as the assistant coach to both teams.

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Amanda Rico coached the women’s volleyball team from 2002-2007.

The Oregon Tech women’s soccer team was coached by Kevin Sims from 2002-2005, after which it was coached by Bryan Mueller.