Kirk Earlywine

Kirk Earlywine

Kirk Earlywine (born July 4, 1964 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is the head men's basketball coach at Eastern Washington University. He was hired on June 14, 2007 to replace the fired Mike Burns. [1]

Earlywine previously spent one year on Benny Moss' staff at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington as an assistant. Prior to arriving in Wilmington, he spent seven years as an assistant coach at Weber State University, and three years before that at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

His only other head coaching experience came during the 1995–1996 season, when Earlywine was the head coach at Division II Pfeiffer University. Earlywine led Pfeiffer to a 21-8 record in his only season at the helm.

Earlywine's first full-time coaching experience came under the tutelage of Rick Majerus, beginning in 1987 at Ball State University for two seasons, then for another four seasons at the University of Utah. Earlywine left Majerus' staff after the 1992–1993 season to join the staff at Central Michigan University for two years.

Earlywine graduated from Campbell University in 1987 with a degree in physical education. He got his first coaching experience at Campbell, serving as a student assistant for the Fighting Camels.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall
Pfeiffer (Conference Carolinas) (1995–1996)
1995-1996	Pfeiffer	21-8	14-4		NCAA D-II 2nd Round
Pfeiffer:		21-8	14-4
Eastern Washington (Big Sky Conference) (2007–present)
2007–2008	Eastern Washington	11-19	6-10	T-8th
Eastern Washington:		11-19	6-10
Total:		32-27
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

References

• Bio at Eastern Washington's athletics site
• Bio at UNC-Wilmington's athletics site

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