Sehome boys basketball has found its new coach.
Athletic director Colin Cushman announced the hiring of former Western Washington University men’s basketball head coach Brad Jackson as the new head coach of the Mariners.
He takes over after Skyler Gillispie announced his resignation at the conclusion of the 2021-22 season.
Jackson was the head coach at Western for 27 years from 1985-2012 and is the all-time winningest coach in program history with 518 victories. The most notable of those wins was the 2012 NCAA Division II national title, the first and only championship in Western men’s basketball history.
He was named the 2012 National Association of Basketball Coaches and Division II Bulletin National Coach of the Year.
Following the 2012 national championship season, Jackson left the program to become an assistant coach at the University of Washington.
Jackson coached in the Huskies’ men’s program from 2012-2017 during Lorenzo Romar’s tenure as head coach.
Jackson takes over a Sehome team that made it to the state tournament for the first time since 2015 and will return nearly its entire starting lineup from last season.
