Pair of former QU assistant coaches join NCAA Division I staffs

QUINCY — Former Quincy University men’s basketball coach Luke Strege is moving back to the NCAA Division I level.

After eight highly successful seasons at Mineral Area College in Park Hills, Mo., Strege recently was hired as an assistant coach at North Dakota State University. The Bison went 16-17 overall last season and 11-7 in the Summit League, appearing in the Summit League Tournament championship game for the fifth straight season.

Strege spent six seasons at Quincy, helping the Hawks go 115-65 with four NCAA Division II Tournament appearances from 2004-10. The 2009-10 team went 23-9, winning the sixth most games in a single season in program history.

He left Quincy to join the staff at Eastern Kentucky, where he stayed for five seasons and helped the Colonels win an Ohio Valley Conference championship and earn an NCAA Tournament berth in 2014.

Strege was hired at Mineral Area in 2015, over the course of eight seasons, he built a 199-46 record which included an undefeated regular season and Elite Eight appearance at the NJCAA National Tournament in 2020-21.

Under Strege, the Cardinals never won fewer than 22 games in a season.

Trewyn joins Redhawks baseball staff

Former Quincy University assistant baseball coach Kyle Trewyn is joining the staff at Miami (Ohio) following a seven-year stint at Bradley University, where he was associate head coach, hitting coach and recruiting coordinator.

“Kyle is a great hitting coach who I have watched develop young hitters for the past decade,” Miami coach Brian Smiley said in a press release. “His passion for hitting is contagious and our current and future players are going to love working with him every day.”

During the 2015 and 2016 seasons, Trewyn worked on Josh Rabe’s staff at QU, where he was the hitting coach, catching instructor, infield instructor and first-base coach. The Hawks earned the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional both seasons and the 2016 squad set program records for batting average (.334), home runs (89), doubles (124), RBIs (483) and runs scored (517).

The Hawks went 79-35 during those two seasons, winning the GLVC West Division championship in 2015.