Dave Shadley returns again to the Lakeland women’s basketball coaching staff this year as an assistant coach.
Shadley is in his second year as a college coach but has 23 years of high school coaching experience. He coached at all levels at Horicon High School, where his first year included a trip to the 1988 WIAA State Tournament, and he again took the Marshladies to State in 2002. Among his honors included being named an assistant coach at the Division 3 high school all-star games in 2000, and in 2006 he received the Assistant Coach of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association. He also was the high school coach of the former Lindsey Niemuth, who is now current Muskie women’s basketball coach Lindsey Vande Hoef.
Shadley also has administered the Horicon Girls Club basketball program for the past 20 years, recruiting coaches, organizing practices, scheduling games and tournaments, setting up camps and running fundraisers.
Shadley received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Ohio State University in 1979, and an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1985. He is employed as a senior engineer at the John Deere Turf & Utility Division in Horicon.
