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Nate Teymer is now in his second season at the helm of the Augusta State Women’s Basketball program.
Teymer (pronounced TEE-mer) inherited a squad that combined for five wins the previous two season and guided ASU to a 4-0 start in his first year en route to an 8-18 overall record. He was introduced as the eighth head coach in the program’s 37-year history on April 1, 2010 at a press conference in The Towers inside Washington Hall on the main campus of Augusta State University.
The former head coach of Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Ga., Teymer spent five seasons at the helm of the Lady Hornets’ program. He oversaw SPSU’s resurgence, taking the squad from a 5-22 record in his first season in 2005-06 to a school-record 30-5 mark in 2009-10 and the school’s first-ever NAIA National Tournament appearance.
“We had tremendous interest in our search,” Bryant said. “We brought five outstanding candidates to our campus, each of whom is capable of resurrecting our program. I am confident, after much contemplation and deliberation, that we have found an excellent coach with a proven track record of success.
Named the 2009-10 NAIA National Coach-Of-The-Year, Teymer guided the Lady Hornets to a 90-67 overall record, including an 85-45 mark in his last four seasons. SPSU tied or set a school record for wins in a season in each of the last four seasons and was ranked No. 18 in the nation in the final poll of the season.
Teymer guided the Lady Hornets to the Sweet 16 of the NAIA National Tournament in March and to the best start in school history (16-0). He earned Southern States Athletic Conference Coach-Of-The-Year honors as well as NAIA Region 6 Coach-Of-The-Year honors.
Under Teymer, the Lady Hornets’ program produced its first-All-America selection in Marisa Stotler while Crystal Davis was named an NAIA Scholar-Athlete.
A native of Urbandale, Iowa, Teymer earned a B.A. in Secondary Education from Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa in 1999 and received his M. Ed. in Health and Physical Education from Georgia Southwestern in 2002.
He served two seasons as assistant men’s basketball coach from 2003-05 at Shorter College in Rome, Ga., and served stints as an assistant men’s and women’s coach at Georgia Southwestern and at Grand View College.
