With the 2020-21 University of Southern Indiana Athletic seasons postponed due to COVID-19, we wanted to take this time to re-introduce the Screaming Eagles coaches and staff members.

Today features, USI Men's Basketball Head Coach Stan Gouard '99. Gouard was named the 10th head coach for USI Men's Basketball history this spring and comes home to USI after 12 seasons at the helm of the University of Indianapolis. 

Prior to his return to USI, Gouard had lifted the Greyhound men's basketball program back to national prominence. That success has included eight NCAA Division II Tournament appearances (2010-2016, 2020); multiple All-Americans, a number one ranking (2014-15 season); and the 2014 GLVC Coach of the Year honor, and the 2019-20 Midwest Region Coach of the Year.

 
As a player, Gouard helped lead the Eagles to national prominence over his three seasons. USI won the NCAA Division II national championship in 1995; reached the NCAA II Tournament finals in 1994; and was ranked number one nationally in 1995-96 before the Eagles were the top seed in the NCAA II Midwest Regional under former head coach Bruce Pearl. The Eagles also won two GLVC championships with Gouard, while soaring to an 82-12 three-year record.
 
Gouard was honored as the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division II National Player of the Year in 1995 and 1996. He also was recognized as the NCAA II Elite Eight Most Outstanding Player and the CBS/Chevrolet Player of the Game in 1994. He was inducted into the John A. Logan College Hall of Fame in 1998; the Great Lakes Valley Conference Hall of Fame in 2003; and the USI Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007. Gouard received the key to the city of Evansville in 1996 and was inducted into the Small College Hall of Fame in 2020.
 
Following his collegiate career, Gouard played professionally for the Barrinquilla Ciamanes of Columbia, South America, leading his team to the 1999 championship. Gouard also led his Sundsvall Dragon team in Sweden to the playoffs.

Gouard earned his bachelor of science in communications from USI in 1999. He and his wife, Chasity, have a daughter, Kennedy.

Here is a little more about USI's men's basketball head coach: 

Hometown/What was the best part of growing up there? Danville, Illinois; The best part about growing up in Danville is that my family was one of the larger families in our very small community.

Alma Mater: Southern Indiana

Favorite Athlete All-Time: Michael Jordan

Favorite Team(s): Dallas Cowboys; 1995 Bulls

Favorite part of USI? Why?

• My and wife and I both graduated from USI
• Winning a National Championship in 1995
• The fond memories stemming back from my time as a student athlete 
• The USI Community
• The growth of the campus over the years

If you weren't a coach/athletic administrator, what career would you have? I'd be a professional traveler.

Your go to activity during COVID-19? Quality time with the family, watching movies, playing board games, and trying new recipes in the kitchen.

What did you binge what during lockdown? HGTV 

Your go to food? Pizza and fries

Who is the messiest person you know? My 10 year old daughter, Kennedy.

What will finally break the internet? Tic Tok, my daughter can't get enough of it.  

What's your biggest screw up in the kitchen? Attempting to make a Stir Fry.

If you could know the absolute and total truth to one question, wha t question would you ask? When will Covid come to an end and we are back to normal?

When did you know you wanted to be a coach or athletic administrator? Coaching was always my plan B since the day I started playing college basketball.