Women’s HoopDirt | Guess joins the South Dakota women’s basketball staff

South Dakota women’s basketball coach Carrie Eighmey has announced the hiring of Chris Guess as an assistant coach for the Coyotes.

“Chris is a winner,” Eighmey said. “He is highly respected by the young women he has coached and by coaches across the country! He is passionate, hardworking and understands what great cultures and winning programs look like and need. He also has a creative basketball mind and is a great game teacher. I have no doubt that Chris will make us better in every aspect of our program.”

Guess comes to South Dakota from Northwest Missouri. In his lone season in Maryville, the Bearcats reached the NCAA tournament for the first time in 13 years. Northwest Missouri State finished with a 23-8 record and ranked second in the MIAA.

Guess, a 32-year veteran high school coach at Iowa State, was inducted into the Iowa Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022. He captured a pair of state championships at Waukee High School in the greater Des Moines metro. He served as a high school coach at Centerville, Glenwood, Ottumwa, Waukee and Waukee Northwest in the state of Iowa. His teams played in fifteen state tournaments during his high school coaching tenure.

Guess was a National Coach of the Year Finalist in 2022 and was also nominated for the award in 2015. He was selected as Iowa 5A State Coach of the Year in 2015 and 2021.

Guess received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa in 1988. He received his certification in business education in 1991.

Guess and his wife Sheri have two sons, Casey and Connor. Casey graduated from Iowa State in 2018. Casey and his wife, Madison, have a daughter, Carter. Connor also attended Iowa State and was a member of the Cyclone football team from 2018-2022. Connor completed his bachelor’s degree in 2021 and his master’s degree in 2023. Sheri played women’s basketball at Colorado from 1991 to 1993.

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