Nate Oakland returned for his third season as the head women's basketball coach at Upper Iowa in 2021-22. Oakland is the 14th head coach in the 46-year history of the Peacock women's basketball.
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The Cedar Falls native came to Upper Iowa from Fargo, N.D., where he served as an assistant coach with the women's basketball program at North Dakota State University, a NCAA Division I member of the Summit League, from 2017-19.
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Oakland joined the Bison staff in 2017 after serving as the head women's basketball coach at Coe College in Cedar Rapids for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons. Prior to his time at Coe, Oakland was an assistant coach at Wartburg College (2011-15), Coe (2009-11), the University of Northern Iowa (2006-09) and the University of Minnesota-Morris (2005-06).
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Throughout his 15 years of coaching, Oakland logged thousands of hours in recruiting the Midwest concentrating his efforts in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.
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In addition to coaching basketball, he also led the men's golf team at Wartburg for three years and the men's and women's tennis teams during his time at Minnesota-Morris.
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Oakland graduated from Northern Iowa in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in sports psychology and earned a master's degree in sports psychology from UNI in 2011.
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He and his wife, Alex, are the parents of five children including daughters Jordann and Quinncy and sons Eli, Kaiden and Maddox.
Nate Oakland: Year-by-Year at Upper Iowa (11-60, 6-50 NSIC, 3 seasons)
| 2021-22 |
7-19 (4-16 NSIC) |
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| 2020-21 |
1-15 (0-14Â NSIC) |
All-NSIC Freshmen Team - Lydia Haack |
| 2019-20 |
3-26 (2-20Â NSIC) |
NSIC Freshman of the Year - Jessica Musgrave || All-NSIC Freshmen Team - Jessica Musgrave |
