At the Edmond Public Schools April 7th board meeting, Terry Evans was approved to be the new head coach of the Santa Fe Wolves basketball program. Evans takes the reins after Troy Lallemand stepped down at the conclusion of the 2024-25 season.
Evans enters his 32nd year and he has enjoyed multiple years of success. Evans has been to 12 NCAA Tournaments and has won 7 HS State Championships. Evans began his teaching and coaching career at Edmond Santa Fe in 1995-96 and will possibly finish his career as an Edmond Santa Fe Wolf. Evans has coached multiple professional and college basketball players. He gives them all of the credit for his amazing coaching career.
Coach Evans has won 4 OSSAA Class 6A State Championships (most ever in Oklahoma) and has been to 6 Final Fours in his 7 years as a high school 6A head coach. He won 3 6A titles at Midwest City (1998, 2000 and 2001) and had a 100-11 record in 4 years with the Bombers. Moving over to Edmond North in 2016, Evans finished the year 27-1 and finished his 2 years as a Husky with a win-loss record 54-3 in his first 2 years. He led the Huskies to their first State Championship in school history in 2017 (27-2).
Evans spent 20 years in the D1 and D2 college ranks. He has coached at Texas Christian University (TCU), the University of Oklahoma (OU), the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) and Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU).
Evans a former star player at OU (89-93), served as an asst. men’s basketball coach at OU during the 2001-02 season under Kelvin Sampson. He helped lead the Sooners to the Final Four (31-5) and won the Big 12 Conference Tournament title. It was their first Final Four appearance since 1988.
Evans came to UCO in 2002 and finished as the winningest coach in program history (263-124). He led the Bronchos to 7 NCAA D2 Tournament appearances in his first 9 years, advancing to the NCAA Elite 8 (2008) and NCAA Sweet 16 (2011).
Coach Evans led SWOSU (2018-2023) to its first NCAA D2 Conference Championship (GAC) in school history in 2022. That team also earned an NCAA D2 Tournament berth for only the second time in SWOSU history.
As a player, Evans won 3 HS State Championships at Millwood (85, 87 and 88) for legendary coach Varryl Franklin. He set multiple records as a 4 year starter at OU. OU was the #1 seed in 1988, 89, 90 and a 4 seed in 1992 while averaging over 100 points a game for legendary coach Billy Tubbs. Evans finished as the career leader in 3-pointers made, assist, steals and was 13 th in career scoring.
We're excited to have Terry Evans with us at Edmond Santa Fe High School.