Marcus Wiegert returns to assist with the Lakeland men’s basketball program in 2026-27.
Wiegert has 12 years of college coaching experience, including time at Lakeland, UW-Superior, Carroll University and Marian University.
At Lakeland, Wiegert helped the Muskies to a fourth-place finish in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference during the 2019-20 season.
As an assistant coach at Lakeland’s NACC rival Marian, he was responsible for many of the day-to-day tasks within the program as well as having a heavy hand on the recruiting trail. From 2010-11 to 2013-14, he helped engineer one of the greatest turnarounds in college basketball (4-21 overall to 22-7 overall). The 2013-14 season featured Marian winning the NACC regular season and tournament championship. The Sabres fell just short of knocking off the No. 1 team in the country (UW-Stevens Point) in the 2013-14 NCAA Tournament.
Wiegert also was the head coach of the Marian women’s and men’s tennis programs and worked in the undergraduate admission office and information technology at the school. He guided the Sabres women’s tennis team from a one-win season in 2014-15 to an 10-9 mark in 2015-16. The program reached the NACC Tournament semifinals three straight years from 2016-18 and defeated a UW institution (UW-Stevens Point) for the first time in school history.
Upon leaving college coaching, Wiegert worked for the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders, where as an assistant general manager he helped the organization win the Northwoods League title in 2020.
Wiegert played basketball at Marian and is a 2008 graduate of the school with a degree in sport and recreation management and a minor in information technology. In August of 2015, he earned his master's degree in Sports Management from Lasell College. He is a native of Deerbrook, Wis., and a graduate of Antigo High School.
