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May, Trent
Trent May
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- Trent.May@gcu.edu
- Phone:
- 602-639-6036
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Trent May enters his 10th season at the helm of the Grand Canyon women's basketball program. May is currently the programs all-time winningest coach and owns a career record of 307-141. May enters the 2016-17 season with 180 career GCU wins through his nine seasons.
Winning at GCU isn't anything new. He has guided two schools -- Grand Canyon now and Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan., at his previous head coaching stop -- to the best single-season records in school history.
The incredible success is easy to quantify when you start with May's 2010-11 Lopes team that finished 29-3 and advanced to the Division II Sweet 16. The only time he's seen better? Try at Bethany College in 2002-03 when May’s team finished 30-3.
In 2013-14, the program’s inaugural season reclassifying to Division I, May led the Lopes to an impressive 21-9 mark with a 10-6 record and third-place finish in the Western Athletic Conference. The team earned a berth into the Women’s Basketball Invitational, giving May’s teams four straight postseason appearances and five in six seasons. It was also the program’s fourth straight 20-plus win season.
Adding in a 13-14 campaign that included a 7-7 WAC record and fourth-place finish in 2014-15, May's teams have gone 129-47 overall, including 66-15 at home, in the last six years.
His clubs followed up the Sweet 16 berth from 2011, with two more Division II West Region appearances. Both clubs went to the region semifinals and combined for a mark of 47-13.
In 2012, he was named PacWest Coach of the Year for the fourth time as the 'Lopes won their fifth conference title in six seasons. He won his 100th game at the helm of the program on Feb. 4 at Hawai'i Hilo.
Under his guidance, the 'Lopes were regularly ranked in the USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25 Coaches Poll starting in the 2010-11 season. During that season, the team moved as high as No. 9.
Senior guard Samantha Murphy was named 2011 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball National Player of the Year by the College Sports Information Directors of America and the Division II Bulletin.
May tutored another GCU All-American in 2014 graduate Judy Jones, who was a third-team Division II All-American in 2013. She averaged a double-double with 16.2 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. She was the PacWest Player of the Year and Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year along with ranking fifth in the nation with 20 double-doubles.
May broke the school record for career victories in 2009-10, earning his 50th career win with a 98-48 win over Chaminade in Honolulu.
He guided the ‘Lopes to PacWest championships in each of his first two seasons. Along with winning the 2009 title, GCU earned an automatic bid to the Division II West Regional, its first postseason trip since 2004.
In 2007-08, his first year as head coach, the ‘Lopes went 19-10 overall and 15-3 in the PacWest. In 2006-07, May was GCU’s associate head coach, helping steer the ‘Lopes to a record of 23-4 overall, 15-0 in the PacWest.
Prior to Grand Canyon, May coached at Bethany College for six years, guiding the Swedes to a 127-57 record, two national tournament appearances and one Sweet 16 finish. He was named Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year twice, and was named Kansas Four-Year College Coach of the Year in 2003. He coached two All-Americans at the school.
May was an assistant coach at his alma mater, Southern Nazarene in Bethany, Okla., for four years. His tenure included a national championship, two title game appearances, four national semifinal appearances and a 122-21 record.
May played basketball at Southern Nazarene and earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from the school in 1995. He received a master’s degree in kinesiology in 1997.
Trent May enters his 10th season at the helm of the Grand Canyon women's basketball program. May is currently the programs all-time winningest coach and owns a career record of 307-141. May enters the 2016-17 season with 180 career GCU wins through his nine seasons.
Winning at GCU isn't anything new. He has guided two schools -- Grand Canyon now and Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan., at his previous head coaching stop -- to the best single-season records in school history.
The incredible success is easy to quantify when you start with May's 2010-11 Lopes team that finished 29-3 and advanced to the Division II Sweet 16. The only time he's seen better? Try at Bethany College in 2002-03 when May’s team finished 30-3.
In 2013-14, the program’s inaugural season reclassifying to Division I, May led the Lopes to an impressive 21-9 mark with a 10-6 record and third-place finish in the Western Athletic Conference. The team earned a berth into the Women’s Basketball Invitational, giving May’s teams four straight postseason appearances and five in six seasons. It was also the program’s fourth straight 20-plus win season.
Adding in a 13-14 campaign that included a 7-7 WAC record and fourth-place finish in 2014-15, May's teams have gone 129-47 overall, including 66-15 at home, in the last six years.
His clubs followed up the Sweet 16 berth from 2011, with two more Division II West Region appearances. Both clubs went to the region semifinals and combined for a mark of 47-13.
In 2012, he was named PacWest Coach of the Year for the fourth time as the 'Lopes won their fifth conference title in six seasons. He won his 100th game at the helm of the program on Feb. 4 at Hawai'i Hilo.
Under his guidance, the 'Lopes were regularly ranked in the USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25 Coaches Poll starting in the 2010-11 season. During that season, the team moved as high as No. 9.
Senior guard Samantha Murphy was named 2011 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball National Player of the Year by the College Sports Information Directors of America and the Division II Bulletin.
May tutored another GCU All-American in 2014 graduate Judy Jones, who was a third-team Division II All-American in 2013. She averaged a double-double with 16.2 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. She was the PacWest Player of the Year and Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year along with ranking fifth in the nation with 20 double-doubles.
May broke the school record for career victories in 2009-10, earning his 50th career win with a 98-48 win over Chaminade in Honolulu.
He guided the ‘Lopes to PacWest championships in each of his first two seasons. Along with winning the 2009 title, GCU earned an automatic bid to the Division II West Regional, its first postseason trip since 2004.
In 2007-08, his first year as head coach, the ‘Lopes went 19-10 overall and 15-3 in the PacWest. In 2006-07, May was GCU’s associate head coach, helping steer the ‘Lopes to a record of 23-4 overall, 15-0 in the PacWest.
Prior to Grand Canyon, May coached at Bethany College for six years, guiding the Swedes to a 127-57 record, two national tournament appearances and one Sweet 16 finish. He was named Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year twice, and was named Kansas Four-Year College Coach of the Year in 2003. He coached two All-Americans at the school.
May was an assistant coach at his alma mater, Southern Nazarene in Bethany, Okla., for four years. His tenure included a national championship, two title game appearances, four national semifinal appearances and a 122-21 record.
May played basketball at Southern Nazarene and earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from the school in 1995. He received a master’s degree in kinesiology in 1997.
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