Norm Ellenberger
| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
August 2, 1932 Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| Died | November 15, 2015 (aged 83) Watersmeet, Michigan |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1951–1953 | Butler |
| Basketball | |
| 1952–1954 | Butler |
| Baseball | |
| 1951–1954 | Butler |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1965 | Monmouth (IL) |
| Basketball | |
| 1957–1964 | New Haven HS |
| 1964–1967 | Monmouth (IL) |
| 1967–1972 | New Mexico (assistant) |
| 1972–1979 | New Mexico |
| 1986–1990 | UTEP (assistant) |
| 1990–2000 | Indiana (assistant) |
| 2000–2003 | Chicago Bulls (assistant) |
| 2012 | New York Liberty (assistant) |
| Baseball | |
| 1965–1966 | Monmouth (IL) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 2–6 (college football) 164–98 (college basketball) 21–14 (college baseball) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Basketball 2× WAC (1974, 1978) |
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Norman Dale Ellenberger (August 2, 1932 – November 15, 2015) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He was head coach of the University of New Mexico Lobo basketball team from 1972 to 1979, winning Western Athletic Conference championships in 1974 and 1978 and compiling an overall record of 134–62 (.684). His former players included future National Basketball Association (NBA) defensive stand-out Michael Cooper, who helped lead the 1977–78 team that was ranked as high as No. 5 nationally. Ellenberger was dismissed as Lobo head coach due to a recruiting scandal known as "Lobogate".
Ellenberger later became lead assistant coach under Don Haskins at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) from 1986 to 1990 and under Bobby Knight at Indiana University from 1990 to 2000. He served as an assistant for the Chicago Bulls of the NBA from 2000 to 2003 and then coached boys' and girls' high school basketball in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He was an assistant for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) during the 2012-13 season before returning to high school coaching in Michigan.
Ellenberger graduated in 1955 from Butler University, where he played for basketball coaching legend Tony Hinkle. Ellenberger was also captain and all-conference player on the football team, and he pitched a no-hitter on the baseball team. In 2012, he was inducted into the Butler Athletic Hall of Fame. After a brief stint in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, he taught science and coached basketball and other sports from 1957 to 1964 at New Haven High, near the Indiana farm where he grew up.
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