Dave Ketterman is in his second season as the assistant coach for the NSU women’s basketball program. He joined the RiverHawks staff after spending 10 seasons as the athletics director and head women’s basketball coach at Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri.
During his time with the Comets, who compete at the NJCAA Division II level, he compiled a 131-104 record that included one Region 16 Regular Season Championship (2009) and three runner-up finishes (2006-08). He guided CC to seven winning seasons over his last nine years, and the team earned top-20 national rankings in four of his last six campaigns.
Ketterman coached 43 all-region performers, five All-Americans and seven academic All-Americans. He followed former player Caley Shaffstall, who is a junior after transferring to NSU.
Prior to his move to Cottey, Ketterman worked in the Nevada R-5 School District serving in a wide variety of roles from 1991-04. He was the varsity girls basketball coach (1991-93), middle school volleyball coach (1991-93), middle school track coach (1991-97), varsity cross country coach (1993-98), varsity boys tennis coach (1998), varsity assistant boys basketball coach (2001-03), and varsity girls swimming coach (2000-06).
He worked for the El Dorado Springs R-2 School District from 1986-90 as the girls basketball and volleyball coach.
He was the head women’s basketball coach at Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas, from 1983-86, and he compiled an 80-20 mark during his tenure. He was honored as the NAIA District 8 Coach of the Year twice (1984-85), the American Women’s Sports Federation Southwest Region Coach of the Year (1985) and the American Women’s Sports Federation All-American Coach of the Year (1985).
He guided the Pioneers to a third-place finish at the NAIA National Championship tournament in 1985 and had nine players named NAIA All-Americans.
Prior to moving to WBU, Ketterman was at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, from 1980-83 as the assistant women’s basketball coach and head recruiter under Sue Gunter.
Ketterman began his professional career as an assistant coach and physical education instructor from 1977-80 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He was the first full-time assistant under Joann Rutherford for the NCAA Division I program, also serving as the head recruiter. He helped lead the 1978 squad to a Big 8 Championship.
He received a master’s degree in education from the University of Missouri in 1978 and obtained a bachelor of science degree in education from Southwest Missouri State University in 1977.
Ketterman and wife Cathy have two daughters, Jessie Grant and Hannah.
