Carl Sandburg College men’s basketball coach Ryan Twaddle has added a familiar face and a new face to his coaching staff.
Former longtime assistant Jeff Thurman has returned to the program, and Knoxville native Kane Mastin also will be an assistant for the Chargers for the 2017-18 season.
Thurman, an assistant for Twaddle from 2007-15, was the women’s basketball coach at Black Hawk East during the 2015-16 season before that program was disbanded. He spent the past two years as a graduate assistant with the Western Illinois men’s basketball team and rejoins the Chargers on a volunteer basis.
Mastin, a 2004 Knoxville High School graduate, currently teaches history at United High School, where he had been the JV girls basketball head coach and varsity assistant coach since 2015.
The Chargers, who finished last season 18-15 and reached the Region IV tournament championship game, open the 2017-18 campaign at 8 p.m. Nov. 1 against St. Ambrose JV at John M. Lewis Gymnasium.
