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CCS men’s golf coach Kramer

named head coach at Whitworth

SPOKANE — Whitworth University named former Pirate player and current Community Colleges of Spokane coach Scott Kramer as the men’s golf coach.

Kramer will replace Heritage Gallery Hall of Famer Warren Friedrichs, who announced his retirement in February.

Kramer has served as the men’s golf coach with the Community Colleges of Spokane for 10 seasons, winning six Northwest Athletic Conference titles.

Kramer was one of Friedrich’s first recruits when the Pirate golf program was revived for the 2003-04 season. Kramer played two seasons for the Pirates after spending two years with CC Spokane. He helped lead the Bucs to their first NWC crown in 2004-05.

Seltzer returns to WSU

as assistant basketball coach

PULLMAN — A former Washington State standout on the basketball court and 20-year coaching veteran, Bennie Seltzer returns to Pullman to join Ernie Kent’s staff as an assistant men’s basketball coach.

Seltzer spent the last two years on Porter Moser’s basketball staff at Loyola Chicago as an assistant men’s basketball coach. Last season Seltzer’s Ramblers defeated the Cougars in the final game of the Paradise Jam, played at St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Nov. 21.

A 6-foot guard, Seltzer starred at WSU from 1990-93, where he is still the school’s all-time career assists leader (473). At the point of his graduation, he held the second-best career scoring mark in school history with 1,423 points (now ninth), the third-most career steals (now seventh) and the third-most minutes played (now 12th).

Seltzer began his coaching career in 1997 as an assistant for nine seasons under his former coach at WSU, Kelvin Sampson at Oklahoma. In 2006, Seltzer then moved on to Marquette, spending a pair of seasons on Tom Crean’s coaching staff. The Golden Eagles made the NCAA Tournament both seasons and Seltzer followed Crean to Indiana, where he was an assistant coach for four years.

After two seasons as head coach at Samford, Seltzer returned to Bloomington in January 2015 and served as Crean’s director of player performance for six months.

After leaving WSU, Seltzer played professionally in Turkey, Venezuela, Poland and Holland.