The Elon University men’s basketball team and head coach Billy Taylor announced the addition of Al Seibert to the coaching staff on Wednesday, June 11. Seibert will serve as an assistant coach and general manager for the Phoenix.
Seibert joins the Phoenix after spending the past 14 years on the University of Iowa men’s basketball coaching staff. He spent the past three seasons as the Chief of Staff and General Manager for the Hawkeyes, working closely with the basketball staff and overseeing the day-to-day activities of the UI basketball program. Seibert will replace Greg Herenda, who departed the Elon staff earlier this spring in pursuit of other opportunities.
“We are thrilled to welcome Al Seibert to Elon as an Assistant Coach and General Manager, a newly created role to help us build and maintain a successful program while navigating the evolving landscape of college athletics,” said Taylor. “Having worked alongside Al at Iowa, I have witnessed his ability to impact a program in countless ways. Al will do a great job building connections and cultivating relationships within this community while contributing to our fundraising efforts to support our program and most importantly our student-athletes.”
Under Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery, Seibert assisted in the rise of the Hawkeye basketball program back to national prominence with Iowa winning 20 games or more in eight of the past 12 seasons. In 2022, the Hawkeyes won their third Big Ten Tournament title, tying for the third-most in the league all-time.
As a member of the Hawkeye staff, Seibert had recruited and coached a first-team All-Big Ten honoree eight of the last 11 years, including Luke Garza, a two-time National Player of the Year and a consensus first-team All-America selection in 2020 and 2021, and Keegan Murray, a finalist for the Wooden Award and Naismith Trophy while receiving the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year award in 2022. Kris Murray was a consensus third-team All-American, a finalist for the Karl Malone Award and a semifinalist for the Wooden and Naismith awards.
Seibert has 19 years of coaching experience and served as the head coach at the University of New Haven in West Haven, Connecticut, from 2005-10.
He was at the University of Hartford for five seasons (2005-10), four as an assistant (2000-04) and one as associate head coach (2004-05). Seibert was the top assistant in 2002 when Hartford posted the second-best Division I turnaround. He also helped coach the Hawks to a top three finish in the America East Conference from 2002-04.
Seibert was also an assistant coach at Western Kentucky (1994-98). He helped coach the 1995 Western Kentucky team to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, a final national ranking of No. 18 and a 27-4 overall record, which was second only to national champion UCLA.
Other stops include one season as a volunteer assistant coach at Duquesne (1992-93) and working as a basketball administrative assistant at Pittsburgh (1993-94).
Seibert has worked individually with a number of athletes drafted in the NBA. In 1993, he worked with Derrick Alston (Duquesne University), who was a second-round draft pick of the Philadelphia 76ers. The following spring, Seibert worked with Eric Mobley (University of Pittsburgh), who was the 16th overall selection of the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1994 NBA Draft. In 1996, he worked with Ben Davis (University of Arizona), who was a second-round pick of the Phoenix Suns. Seibert also worked individually with Lee Nailon (TCU) in 1998-99, who was a second-round selection by Charlotte.
Seibert worked as a college basketball recruiting expert for Insiders Report from 1998-2000.
He played collegiately at Frederick Community College (Md.) from 1981-83.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Seibert earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Fredonia State University in New York in 1985.
Seibert is married to Rachel, has a daughter Katie and a son-in-law Brent, who reside in North Liberty, Iowa.
Seibert named Assistant Basketball Coach at General Manager at Elon
