CHICAGO – The College of Chicago Division of Athletics & Recreation introduced on Thursday that Bryan Joel will function the Interim Head Coach of the lads’s basketball program for the rest of the 2022-23 season.
Joel is at present in his eighth season as an assistant coach with the Maroons and can lead this system for the remainder of this season’s video games as Head Coach Mike McGrath recovers from hip surgical procedure.
Now in his twenty fourth season main the Maroons, McGrath is stepping away quickly attributable to issues from hip surgical procedure that he underwent this previous April. He expects to renew his lively head teaching duties as soon as he has made a full restoration.
“I used to be actually hopeful that the surgical procedures that I have to resolve my hip problem may wait till after the season,” McGrath stated. “It’s personally disappointing that I won’t be able to educate this workforce for the remainder of the season. It is a particular group of men that may have a particular season. We’re so fortunate to have somebody like Coach Joel in place to take the reins and be our head coach for the remainder of the yr. He and Assistant Coach Mike Mailhot are nice coaches who’re uniquely ready to steer the Maroons.”
In 2019, Joel was named to the Nationwide Affiliation of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Underneath Armour 30-Underneath-30 Crew, representing 30 of essentially the most excellent males’s school basketball coaches below the age of 30.
