Wofford College men’s basketball coach Mike Young has announced that Dustin Kerns will be rejoining the coaching staff for the 2013-14 season. Kerns has spent the last six seasons as an assistant coach at Santa Clara after coaching at Wofford for three seasons.

Kerns and Gus Hauser will both be associate head coaches for the Terriers. Hauser recently completed his second season on the Wofford staff.

Dustin Kerns helped the Broncos post 24+ victories for the second time in three years in 2012-13. Collecting a 26-12 record, the Broncos won the College Basketball Invitational post-season tournament after winning the CollegeInsider.com Tournament in 2011. The Broncos final RPI was No. 68 and record-wise, they claimed the biggest turnaround in Division I basketball this year. The 26 wins were just one shy of the school record set by the 1968-69 team who collected 27 wins.

Santa Clara won 26 games in 2012-13 after winning 21 regular season games for the first time in almost 20 years. Kerns has been essential to the Broncos run, helping coach two first-team All-WCC members in 2013 in Marc Trasolini and Kevin Foster, the second-all-time leading scorer in West Coast Conference history. In addition to their success on the court, all five seniors are on tap to graduate in June as well.

Kerns also helped lead the Broncos to one of their most successful seasons in 2010-11, finishing the season with 24 victories — third most in school history — and winning the CollegeInsider.com Post-Season Tournament Championship. Foster was named to the All-WCC First Team and an NABC All-District honoree; Evan Roquemore was named to the Freshman All-WCC Team and Troy Payne was named the WCC Defensive Player of the Year.

Prior to becoming an assistant coach on Coach Kerry Keating’s staff Kerns served as Director of Basketball Operations at Santa Clara for one season. Kerns joined the Broncos in 2007 from Wofford College, where he spent three seasons as an assistant coach.

During his tenure at Wofford, Kerns helped the Terriers post wins at Auburn and Cincinnati in those three seasons. Tyler Berg and Shane Nichols were both All-Southern Conference selections at Wofford with Junior Salters being named to the all-conference freshman team in 2006-07. His responsibilities included on-floor coaching, recruiting, scouting, team travel, camp director and working with the perimeter players. The 2005 and 2006 recruiting classes went on to win back to back Southern Conference Championships, including Southern Conference Player of the Year Noah Dahlman. Those recruiting classes included Noah Dahlman who became Wofford’s All-time leading scorer and All Southern Conference Players Junior Salters and Tim Johnson.

Prior to joining Mike Young’s staff at Wofford, Kerns spent a season as a graduate assistant under then-head coach Buzz Peterson at Tennessee. The Vols earned a berth in the NIT that season. Kerns was camp and coaching clinic director during his time in Knoxville, while assisting with team scouting, compliance and academics. He received a Masters of Science from Tennessee in 2004.

Kerns’ first job in college basketball was at Tennessee Tech, as he spent the 2002-03 season as the program’s Director of Basketball Operations. He assisted head coach Mike Sutton with all aspects of the program, including opponent scouting, on-campus recruiting, scheduling, film exchange and team academics. The team won 20 games that season and reached the Ohio Valley Championship game.

Kerns is a 2002 graduate of Clemson University, where he earned a degree in secondary education. As an undergraduate, he worked as an student assistant for Tigers men’s basketball team under then-head coach Larry Shyatt, helping organize summer camps, while also assisting with the scout films.

A Kingsport, Tennessee native, the 33-year-old Kerns played at Dobyns-Bennett High School, which ranks first in the nation in all time wins at the prep level. Kerns is married to the former Brittany Wright and they welcomed their first child, Emory Sulianne, on October 19, 2011.

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