Kishwaukee College hired Michael Poindexter Jr. as the next head coach for the Men’s Basketball team. Poindexter will take over this year as the 12th coach in program history.
With more than 20 years of coaching experience, Poindexter brings a long resume of success and expertise to the Kish program. At the high school level, he coached Cordova High School in Memphis and the Memphis Blazers Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) program, which finished as a top-five team in the nation under his tenure. At the collegiate level, Poindexter has served as head coach of men’s basketball programs for Rust College, OnPoint Academy and Our Lady of the Lake University, where he led the team to an Elite Eight appearance in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) tournament. Poindexter served as an assistant coach at Huston-Tillotson University, Marian University’s Ancilla College, Pima Community College, Indiana Institute of Technology, Missouri State University-West Plains, McCook Community College and Texas A&M University-Texarkana. He helped Texas A&M-Texarkana reach the NAIA Tournament for the first time in program history.
At Kish, Poindexter said he is looking forward to rebuilding the College’s winning culture.
“Things have aligned for this to be a perfect situation at Kishwaukee College because of our shared vision on how we want this basketball program to be. We want to win and change the lives of these young men,” Poindexter said.
Poindexter has already started to recruit locally and nationally for student-athletes to build around.
“We are going to bring the culture and pride back to Kishwaukee College. There is a tremendous history of winning. And we want to graduate our young men and help them move on to four-year schools or their next goal,” Poindexter said.
Poindexter, who earned a bachelor’s degree during his time at Indiana Tech, emphasized that success in the classroom will help lead to success on the court for the student-athletes.
“If they are going to play basketball or not after Kish, we want to push them on and off the court to be successful in their next step. Academics come first. You need to be dependable in the classroom if you are going to be dependable on the court,” Poindexter said.
For more information on the Men’s Basketball program at Kishwaukee College, contact Michael Poindexter at mpoindexter@kish.edu or 815-825-9343 or visit kishkougars.com. Learn more about Kishwaukee College at kish.edu.