Head Coach Rick Reedy

Rick Reedy enters his 22nd season as UWA's head basketball coach with a wealth of experience gleaned through two decades in high school and college coaching. His 21 campaigns at the West Alabama helm have brought inspired play and quality student-athletes to the Livingston campus, with renewed promise for an exciting future as the program enters a new millennium.

In 2004-2005, Reedy led the Tigers to an overall mark of 14-13, following a 5-22 mark a season earlier, which was good enough for the biggest turnaround season in school history.

Reedy, 54, came to UWA as a newly hired assistant in 1980 after a three-season tenure as an assistant and head coach at Crystal River (Fla.) High School. He took the reigns at UWA in 1984 and fashioned the club into a perennial Gulf South Conference contender, winning 252 games over the next 21 seasons.

In 1987-88, Reedy guided the perpetually rebuilding Tigers to a stellar 18-9 mark and the school's first basketball playoff berth in years. The following season, he led UWA to a similarly impressive 17-10 finish, earning GSC Coach of the Year plaudits and yet another post-season appearance.

As the 90's approached, Reedy's popularity swelled and West Alabama basketball became a happening in Livingston. Fans and students routinely flocked to Pruitt Hall's "Kill Section" to watch the Tigers play a fervent, hustling brand of basketball and rack up 35 wins in a two-season span from 1996-98.

Today, Reedy - the Dean of Coaches at UWA - routinely serves on a wide variety of UWA committees and organizations, and is firmly committed to the future of the University and its athletic department.

He is married to the former Patsy Lindsey of Butler, Ala.