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Head Coach MATT STREICH
Streich comes to Southwestern ahead of the 2025-26 season after 11 seasons as an Assistant Coach at the Division III level. Streich has been a part of deep NCAA Tournament runs with two different programs and has helped lead three separate programs to a Conference Championship Game.
Prior to being hired at Southwestern, Streich spent 4 years as Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at Colorado College. Tasked with helping rebuild the Tigers program following and 0-8 covid-shortened season, the '24-'25 Tigers reached the SCAC Tournament Semi-Final Game and finished with a record over .500 in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2013, and for only the 2nd time in the last 30 years of the program. In ‘23-24, the Tigers reached the SCAC Tournament Championship Game for the first time since 2016, and only the third time in program history. The ‘23-24 team finished the year ranked No. 5 in the nation in 3-point field goal defense, as well as 17th in rebound margin.
As the recruiting coordinator at Colorado College, Streich led the recruiting effort to land Baltimore product Dinari Boykin, the 2023 SCAC First-Year Player of the Year and a First-Team All-SCAC selection. Boykin was the first CC player to win the award since 2012 and only the fourth freshman in SCAC history to earn first team honors. In Streich’s four seasons with the Tigers, the program produced 14 All-Conference selections.
Prior to his time in Colorado, Streich spent two seasons at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges in Claremont, CA, where he helped the Sagehens post their best season in program history with a 24-5 record, SCIAC regular-season and tournament championships, and an appearance in the 2020 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Pomona-Pitzer advanced to the Sweet 16 with a victory over No. 10 Emory University before the remainder of the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
During his tenure with the Sagehens, Streich played a key role in the development of three first-team all-SCIAC selections, including Micah Elan, the Conference Player of the Year who also earned second-team All-America honors. Elan finished his career as the program’s career leader in points, assists and three-point baskets. The 2020-21 Sagehen team produced three professional athletes, earning contracts in Israel, England, Switzerland, and Portugal. In addition, Streich recruited to Pomona-Pitzer a First-Team All-SCIAC selection and 1,000 point scorer, Colorado native Ty Bergman.
Prior to his arrival at Pomona-Pitzer, Streich served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Nichols College in Dudley, Mass. During his tenure, the Bison compiled a 53-7 record, won back-to-back Commonwealth Coast Conference titles and earned a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2018, Nichols capped its most successful season in program history by advancing to the Elite 8 of the NCAA tournament. That season, the Bison were ranked No. 8 nationally, the highest in program history, and finished the season No. 12 in scoring offense.
Streich helped develop eight all-conference players in two years at Nichols, including Marcos Echevarria, and DeAnte Bruton, both of whom amassed over 2,000 points in their careers. Echevarria earned second-team All-America honors in 2019 and ranks No. 16 all-time in scoring in NCAA DIII history with 2,519 points. Echevarria also ranks third in NCAA history with 479 career three-pointers made. Bruton earned fourth-team All-America honors in 2020.
Streich received a Masters Degree in Organizational Leadership from Nichols College in 2019.
Streich’s resume also includes three seasons as an assistant coach at Emmanuel College in Boston, where he recruited three of the top 10 scorers in program history and helped the Saints improve from a six-win team to a Great Northeast Athletic Conference semi-finalist in two of his three seasons.
Streich earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Ithaca College, where he played baseball for three years and posted a .303 career batting average. He earned first-team all-conference twice and was a second-team selection once.
After graduating, Streich played four seasons (2011-14) of minor league baseball both domestically and overseas, where he earned contracts in Sweden and Australia.
Streich is a member of the Jewish Coaches Association, and will serve as the Head Coach for the USA's 18u Jewish National Team for the Maccabi Games in Israel in July of 2025. The Maccabi Games is the second largest international sporting event in the world, second only to the Olympics.
Streich’s father, Mark, is a long-time basketball coach who currently serves as the Head Coach at The Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, RI.
