Teddy Owens, director of basketball operations at the University of Nebraska, has been named the new boys basketball coach at Carrollwood Day School.
Owens, who has been with Nebraska for the past four seasons, including the past three as the university’s director of ops, replaces Mario Lovett, who went a combined 26-53 in four seasons at Carrollwood Day.
Besides coaching, Owens, 35, will work in administration as a part of Carrollwood Day’s advancement and development team.
At Nebraska, Owens’ duties included handling the basketball program’s budget, coordinating the team’s travel, working with the Husker coaching staff on scheduling, and other responsibilities.
Owens previously was the head coach at Lincoln Christian High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the late 2000s, leading the program to the Class 2A state tournament in 2009 and 2010. He also was an assistant at several schools in the Tulsa area.
Before joining the Nebraska staff, Owens was a graduate assistant at the University of Oklahoma under Lon Kruger, and was a student manager at Oklahoma State University in 2003-2004.
Owens graduated from Oklahoma State and got his master’s from Oklahoma in 2013.
