Olson talks with Max Country, ‘Big Time Hoops’ podcast
Links:
-Interview with 104.9 Max Country
-Podcast interview with “Small School: Big Time Hoops”
SEWARD, Neb. – Over the past week, Concordia University head women’s basketball coach Drew Olson has been interviewed by 104.9 Max Country and has joined a podcast hosted by an NAIA women’s basketball assistant coach. Olson discussed handling of the current pandemic and his 2020-21 team with Evan Jones and a wide variety of topics in a podcast of nearly 40 minutes with Jovahn Masters, who hosts the “Small School: Big Time Hoops” podcast.
In the podcast interview, Olson discussed his playing career as a Bulldog, the prevalence of coaching within his family and how he became the head women’s basketball coach at Concordia – and more. Olson essentially went through each season at Concordia in some degree of detail. He first started his coaching career as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Bellevue University.
Said Olson, “I applied at hundreds of places and it was really discouraging because I didn’t get call-backs or anything. I finally got an interview at College of Saint Mary, an all-women’s school. I interviewed there and after the interview I called Grant Schmidt, my coach at Concordia who was also the athletic director. I said, ‘Hey, will you please call them and be a good reference and let them know I’d be a great fit there?' He asked me, ‘Do you want to coach women?’ I said, ‘I just want a job. I don’t care what I coach.’ My dream was to be a men’s division I coach, but God had different plans. I don’t think he (Grant) actually called because two days later he called me and said, ‘Hey, the women’s position is open here and we want you to come interview for it and take it.’ He had a plan. God had a plan. It worked out really well.”