MUS Basketball Coaching Staff Complete for 2019-2020

Memphis University School recently finalized the additions of Scott Rose and Joe Tyler to the basketball coaching staff. Coach Rose, a 1982 graduate of MUS, will lead the junior varsity team while also serving as an assistant varsity coach with head coach David Willson and assistant coach Robert O’Kelley. Coach Tyler, who begins his 21^st year on faculty at MUS, will serve as head coach for the ninth grade team.

Scott Rose brings outstanding basketball pedigree from his experience as a player and a coach. He was a standout guard for coach Jerry Peters at MUS before making the team at the University of Arkansas as a walk-on. While at Arkansas, Rose played in 86 games and averaged 17 minutes and 3 assists per game as a senior. He was a member of Coach Eddie Sutton’s 1982-83 team that competed in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen and later played for Coach Nolan Richardson, who credits Rose as the person who coined the term “40 Minutes of Hell”, which was used to describe the Razorback’s up tempo style of play. This will be Rose’s second stint as a basketball coach at MUS after serving as the seventh grade coach between 1996 and 2006.

 

Coach Tyler returns to the basketball coaching staff for his 16^th year as a basketball coach at MUS. He joined the MUS faculty in 1999 after working as an assistant basketball coach at Christian Brothers University. He served as the MUS ninth grade coach from 1999 to 2016.

 

Coach Wes Crump will continue to lead the eighth grade team as he enters his fifth year as head coach of the team. He also begins his 20^th year as a middle school and high school basketball coach. The seventh grade team will be led by Coach Jason Peters, ’88, who enters his ninth year as head coach of the seventh grade team and his 21^st year in coaching overall. Prior to his time at MUS, Coach Peters served as head varsity coach at Lausanne Collegiate and Out of Door Academy in Florida.