Hannah Nethon joined the Regent coaching staff as the Girls Basketball Head Coach and Program Director in the spring of 2023.

As a talented high school athlete, Coach Nethon was an All-State basketball player and All-State volleyball player. She also qualified for the state tennis  tournament  and the state cross country meet. She is still the Victory Christian School record holder for points, blocks and rebounds, with  23 points and 12 rebounds per game averages her senior year, while leading her team to the state tournament.  Hannah Nethon, as a senior,  was also recognized as the National Christian School Athletic Association Division 1 Basketball Player of the Year.  As a college athlete,  Coach Nethon played four successful seasons of NCAA Division I women’s basketball at New Mexico State University and Illinois State University, where she had opportunities to be taught basketball by outstanding college coaches.

Coach Nethon, as the youngest  of six children, grew up in a very athletic and spiritually minded close knit family. Her father was a  former college basketball and baseball player at the University of Illinois and he later played Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox. Her father also was a basketball coach and athletic director in Iowa before moving his family to Victory Christian School, where he was the Athletic Director for 12 years. Coach Nethon had siblings play college athletics and she has a brother that was “Mr. Basketball” in high school in Iowa, as the state’s outstanding player. Coach Nethon’s  mother is also in ministry in the Victory community. Today, Coach Hannah Nethon is active in her faith and  active in Victory Christian Church. Coach Nethon has three grammar age children.

As a coach, Coach Nethon served on the ORU women’s basketball staff, as a graduate assistant, where she graduated with a Master’s degree from ORU with high honors. Coach Nethon has been serving and coaching at Victory Christian School for seven years as an assistant basketball coach, an assistant volleyball coach and as the head tennis coach.  

Coach Nethon comes to Regent following multiple outstanding recommendations and interviews. She is a strong, confident, calm leader, with quality basketball playing and coaching experiences, and with outstanding abilities to care for and encourage students. She has a passion for kids and for building unity on teams. She is organized and she communicates well. Coach Nethon is a competitive industrious leader intent on growing Regent’s girls’ basketball program fundamentals, participation numbers, competitiveness, and excitement.

Coach Nethon’s coaching duties include assisting the Regent head volleyball coach and working with Regent high school off-season basketball girls in the fall. She coaches middle school tennis in the spring. Hannah Nethon also works with Coach Dees and Mr. Jared as an Assistant Dean of Students in the School of Rhetoric. Another familiar position since she previous served as a Dean of Students at Victory Christian School, in addition to her coaching duties.
 

Since Regent joined the OSSAA in 2014-2015, Kerwin Dees has been the boys' basketball head coach, leading the Rams to one first round Area Tournament, three Area Tournament finals, and twice to the “Big House” for the State Boys Basketball Tournament. During these past six years in OSSAA play, Regent Basketball, with Coach Dees, has also advanced to the finals of 30 regular season and post season tournaments, while capturing 19 of those tournament championships.

Dees has been a high school boys basketball head coach for 34 seasons – six years at Prairie Grove High School in Arkansas (4A), 17 years at Owasso High School (6A), five years at Siloam Springs High School in Arkansas (6A), and six years at Regent (2A). He has also been a classroom teacher for 24 years and an administrator for another 20 years having served as an assistant high school principal and/or elementary school principal and athletic director at Siloam Springs, Lexington Christian Academy in Kentucky, and Regent. In his career, he has also coached cross country, track, and football. Coach Dees has been selected as the Tulsa World Metro Coach of the Year, OCA Oklahoma All State Coach, and conference Coach of the Year, while leading teams to multiple state tournament appearances. 

Coach Dees’ service isn’t purely on the court, he has been an elder in his church, a youth pastor, Fellowship of Christian Athletics huddle director, and Bible study leader in his church and community. Together, Kerwin and his wife Nancy, enjoy six children and 16 grandchildren. The values that Coach Dees enjoys most are to love Jesus, the church, family, children, teaching, and great marriage. Coach Dees often says that he is thankful for the health, influence, and opportunity to coach at Regent. He considers it a great blessing to have athletes at Regent who are faithful, competitive, like-minded, skilled, and intense in their efforts to play their best as a team for one another and for the Lord.