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Jeff Berkhofis entering his 10th season with the Falcon basketball
coaching staff, his seventh as Coach Rick Bowen’s top assistant.
Before joining the coaching ranks, he spent two seasons playing for Coach
Bowen at UW River Falls. During his senior season, he was selected to
the 1993-94 All-WSUC team and was chosen Co-MVP and co-captain by his
teammates.
In addition to his assistant basketball coaching position, Berkhof is
the head women’s golf coach and ad-hoc instructor in the health and
human performance department. The golf team completed its second season
of competition this past fall.
Along with his on the floor coaching duties and administrative tasks,
he directs the Falcon recruiting efforts, coordinates scouting and film
exchange, and is director of the Falcon summer basketball camps and annual
high school varsity tournament – the Great Falcon Shootout.
"Jeff has been my right arm the past seven years. He knows the game,
understands me and is very loyal. As an alum, he has the same passion
for UWRF basketball as I do. I would be lost without him," said Bowen.
Before coming to River Falls, Berkhof played two years at Worthington,
Minn., Junior College. In 1997, he was inducted into the Minnesota Junior
College Athletic Hall of Fame. Prior to Worthington JC, he attended South
Dakota State University and was a member of the SDSU football squad.
The Hills, Minn., native will finish his masters of education degree in
sport management at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 2004.
He completed his bachelor of science degree at UWRF with a major in physical
education and a minor in athletic coaching. He and his wife Jill, a UWRF
alum and fifth grade teacher at Lake Elmo, Minn., reside in Hudson, Wis.
Sam Huffman is in his fourth year as a volunteer assistant coach
with the Falcons. He completed a very distinguished teaching career as
professor of geology at UW-River Falls. Like Coach Bowen, Huffman is a
native Hoosier. He is rekindling his life long passion and love of the
game of basketball this season as a volunteer assistant coach. "Sam
brings to us a lifetime of maturity and experiences. He is rapidly gaining
on the technical learning curve he has been out of for the past 30 years.
He will add a depth to our staff that I feel we need. I am delighted he
is selflessly devoting his time to our program. He is a really nice asset
to have around.”
Besides his on the court duties, Huffman handles the day to day monitoring
of academics with the Falcon players and coordinates team travel.
Coach Huffman graduated from Kingman High School in 1954. The highlight
of his stellar career included a game high of 40 points against Wallace
High School. The 1954 season is significant in Indiana High School basketball
history as the year Milan High School won the IHSAA state basketball championship.
Milan was immortalized as Hickory High School in the very popular movie
Hoosiers. Coach Huffman graduated from Indiana State University in 1962
and completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University in 1970.
Dan Holle enters his second year as an assistant coach with the
Falcons. This is his sixth year with the program - he served as a student
manager for four years. Holle will be responsible for player development,
administrative duties, recruiting and scouting/film exchange.
Holle, who played basketball at Chippewa Falls, Wis., High School, earned
his undergraduate degree in health & human performance in 2003 at
UWRF. Holle plans on beginning his master’s program in 2004. Along
with his coaching duties, he is the athletics event coordinator at UWRF
and is currently employed as a youth sports director at the River Falls
YMCA.
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Jeff Berkhof
Sam Huffman
Dan Holle
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