{"id":47756,"date":"2014-06-12T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47756"},"modified":"2014-06-13T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T04:14:10","slug":"alan-magnani-named-jimmies-mens-head-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47756","title":{"rendered":"Alan Magnani Jimmies Men&#8217;s Basketball Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Magnani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47757\" alt=\"Magnani\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Magnani.jpg\" width=\"123\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi UJ)\u00a0 \u00a0University of Jamestown President Robert S. Badal and Athletic Director Lawrie Paulson announce Alan Magnani has been named head men\u2019s basketball coach.<\/p>\n<p>Magnani comes to Jamestown from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where from 1996 to 2011 he was head men\u2019s basketball coach at Iowa Wesleyan College.<\/p>\n<p>Magnani says, \u201cI am really excited about the opportunity to build upon and continue the success of the men\u2019s basketball program at the University of Jamestown. I\u00a0was very impressed with everyone I met during the interview process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Magnani is the winningest coach in Iowa Wesleyan school history, and his teams reached the NAIA National Tournament in 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2011, winning Midwest Collegiate Conference championships those same years. He was a three-time conference Coach of the Year and in 2011 was a finalist for the Don Meyer Collegeinsider.com National Coach of the Year award. He has coached 13 All-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Paulson says, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to match his resum\u00e9.\u00a0 Obviously, he has enjoyed a great deal of success coaching in Iowa, and I think his experience and maturity will be an asset, not only to the basketball program, but to the Athletic Department and campus community as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Badal adds, \u201cWe are so pleased to welcome an experienced and highly successful coach with an NAIA background.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Magnani earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in sociology from the University of Northern Iowa and his master\u2019s degree in sports administration from Wayne State College. He has held several leadership positions, including serving as President of the NABC-NAIA Board of Directors and three-time Chairman of the NAIA D-II Men\u2019s Basketball National Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Magnani and his wife, Diane, have three children, Trey, 18, Jordan, 14, and Lexie, 12.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi UJ)\u00a0 \u00a0University of Jamestown President Robert S. Badal and Athletic Director Lawrie Paulson announce Alan Magnani has been named head men\u2019s basketball coach. Magnani comes to Jamestown from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where from 1996 to 2011 he was head men\u2019s basketball coach at Iowa Wesleyan College. Magnani says, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47759,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47756\/revisions\/47759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}