Evans will begin his third season at the helm of the University of Mobile women’s basketball program after spending 11 seasons at conference rival Belhaven. In his second season, Evans guided the Lady Rams to the 2014 SSAC Tournament Championship and a trip to the 2014 NAIA Women's Basketball National Championship.
Prior to taking over the Lady Rams’ program, he won 51 games over the past two seasons with the Blazers, and made back-to-back trips to the NAIA Women’s Basketball National Tournament. After going 16-15 in his first year at Mobile, Evans' career record sits at 182-178.
At Belhaven, he coached the past two SSAC Player of the Year winners and three NAIA All-Americans over the past two seasons, including a 1st-teamer in 2011-12. Evans’ teams have ranked in the Top-15 in turnover margin in the NAIA in each of the last five years and in the Top-17 in steals in each of the last four seasons.
Prior to arriving at Belhaven, Evans spent the 2000-2001 season as an assistant with the Millsaps College women’s basketball program. A 1977 graduate of Northeast Louisiana University, he has been involved in coaching for more than 25 years, at both the high school and collegiate levels. He has served as head coach of men’s and women’s varsity basketball, tennis and track, as well as assistant coach for high school football and baseball.
Evans served as head coach of the women’s basketball team at Northwest Rankin High School (Brandon, Mississippi) from 1994-2000. While at Northwest, he compiled an overall record of 94-54, and took the 1999 team to the state championship game for the first time in the school’s history.
