Dean Stambaugh joined the Concordia-St. Paul women's basketball staff as an assistant coach prior to the 2021-22 season.
Before coming to Concordia, Stambaugh was an assistant coach at Stillwater Area High School (2017-2021) and helped guide the Ponies to three consecutive MSHSL State Tournaments. Prior to that, he was an assistant women's basketball coach at Hamline University (2010-2017), the head girls' basketball coach at Breck High School (2007-10), and an assistant for the Irondale High School girls' basketball program.
Stambaugh has active memberships in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and the Minnesota Girls Basketball Coaches Association (MGBCA). Â
His life-long appreciation of sports and the benefits of participation serve as a cornerstone for the values-based coaching philosophy he now shares at Concordia. Stambaugh received his bachelor’s degree in communications, with minors in coaching and music from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1981.