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New basketball coach announces assistants 10:03 a.m., April 11, 2006--Monté Ross, the new head coach of men's basketball at the University of Delaware, has filled out his coaching staff. Ross has named R.C. Kehoe and Stephen Stewart to the staff and has retained former Fightin' Blue Hens player Ryan Iversen. Kehoe served as an assistant coach at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Stewart as an assistant coach at Loyola College of Maryland last season, while Iversen served his first season on the UD staff following a stellar career with the Hens. Kehoe, 28, a native of Philadelphia, is the nephew of St. Joseph's University head coach Phil Martelli. Ross was an assistant coach at St. Joseph's under Martelli for the last 10 years before being named head coach at UD. Kehoe has served as an assistant at Shippensburg University, St. Francis University and UMBC. Stewart, 34, also a native of Philadelphia, was an All-American player at Coppin State University. He has served as an assistant at Coppin, the University at Albany, LaSalle University and Loyola. Iversen, 26, a native of Eden Prairie, Minn., graduated from UD in 2003 as an international business major with a concentration in international economics. He played professionally for the Knox Raiders in Melbourne, Australia, and joined the UD staff prior to last season under former head coach David Henderson. |