Joe Legerski


Joseph Julius Legerski is the former head women's basketball coach at the University of Wyoming.

Coaching career

Legerski earned a bachelor of science degree in business education from the University of Wyoming in 1979. After graduating from Wyoming, Legerski became a boys' varsity basketball assistant coach at Rock Springs High School, a position he would hold for five seasons. From 1984 to 1986, Legerski was the head women's basketball coach at Rock Springs High School. Following one season as head women's basketball coach at Western Wyoming Community College, Legerski was an assistant with the Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team from 1987 through 1991.
From 1992 to 2003, Legerski was assistant coach at the University of Utah under Elaine Elliott; he was associate head coach from 1998 to 2003. During his time as an assistant, Utah won three conference tournament championships between the Western Athletic Conference and Mountain West Conference.http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/utah/sports/w-baskbl/auto_pdf/2015-16/misc_non_event/mg-record-book.pdf
Named head coach at Wyoming on May 1, 2003, Legerski was the sixth head coach in team history and is the winningest coach in Wyoming history. He led the Cowgirls to ten 20+ winning seasons, most recently a 25-9 overall record and a 13–5 mark in the Mountain West in the 2018–2019 season.
During the 2018–2019 season Legerski won his 300th career game as the head coach of the Cowgirls. He was the first coach in program history to reach 300 career wins. He also took the team to their first ever Mountain West Tournament Championship appearance in the 2018–2019 season.
He won 3 Mountain West Conference coach of the year awards, most recently in the 2017–2018 season.
On April 24, 2019, Legerski announced that he would not be returning for the next season, as he planned to retire as coach after 16 years at the helm.

Personal life

Legerski is married and has three children, including stepson Zane Beadles, currently an offensive guard in the NFL.

Head coaching record