Dave Slifer - Jennies basketball coach

Dave Slifer is the seventh-winningest coach in NCAA Division II women’s basketball history with a record of 406-107 (.791).  The Central Missouri State University Jennies are the seventh winningest team in D-II history. Sounds like a match made in basketball heaven. 

That match was in fact made when CMSU Athletics Director Jerry Hughes announced Slifer as the sixth head coach in the 34-year history of Jennies basketball. Slifer has served the past nine seasons as head coach at MIAA-rival Missouri Western State College

      Last season, he took the Jennies to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2000 and a 23-8 overall record.  The Jens finished third in the MIAA (13-5) and had a No. 25 final WBCA ranking.  The NCAA Tournament berth was his ninth consecutive trip as a coach.

       As Missouri Western’s mentor, Slifer posted a record of 205-69. After going 16-12 in his inaugural season with the Lady Griffons, he enjoyed eight consecutive seasons of 21 or more wins. The winningest coach in Missouri Western women’s basketball history, he was named MIAA Coach of the Year three times and led Missouri Western to a pair of MIAA titles, two MIAA Tournament Championships, and eight consecutive NCAA Tournaments. His Lady Griffons also enjoyed a string of seven straight years in the MIAA Tournament Championship game.

Prior to his stint at Western, Slifer served six seasons at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He won at least 28 games all six seasons, and led the Mustangs to six straight NAIA Tournaments, including the Final Four in 1993-94 and 1994-95. Overall Slifer produced a record of 178-30 (.856) at Mount Mercy.

Slifer received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mount Mercy in 1982, and a master’s degree in business administration from Eastern Illinois University in 1985.

He and his wife, Tammy, who also serves as a volunteer assistant coach with the Jennies, have three children: daughters Brittney (18) and Maggie (12), and son D.J.(16).

The Slifer File

at Mount Mercy College

1989-90 - 29-5 (NAIA Tournament)

1990-91 - 29-5 (NAIA Tournament)

1991-92 - 30-5 (NAIA Tournament Quarterfinals)

1992-93 - 28-5 (NAIA Tournament Quarterfinals)

1993-94 - 31-4 (NAIA Final Four)

1994-95 - 31-6 (NAIA Final Four)

Total - six years, 178-30 (.856)
 

at Missouri Western State College

1995-96 - 16-12

1996-97 - 24-7 (MIAA Regular season champions, MIAA Tournament champions, MIAA Coach of the Year, NCAA Tournament)

1997-98 - 23-9 (NCAA Tournament)

1998-99 - 25-5 (NCAA Tournament)

1999-00 - 22-9 (NCAA Tournament)

2000-01 - 24-7 (NCAA Tournament)

2001-02 - 27-3 (MIAA Regular season champions, MIAA Tournament champions, MIAA Coach of the Year, NCAA Tournament)

2002-03 - 23-8 (NCAA Tournament)

2003-04 - 21-9 (MIAA Coach of the Year, NCAA Tournament)

Total - nine years, 205-69 (.748)
 

at Central Missouri State University
2004-2005  -  23-8 (NCAA Tournament)

Overall Record - 16 years, 406-107 (.791)