Bio

Head Coach Gary Sprague has retired after he coached 3 seasons (4 years, beginning in 2018-19) at KCC after his long and storied coaching career in high school. Coach Sprague retired from high school in 2016 after 36 years of coaching high school basketball at Gull Lake High School.  Coach Sprague started his coaching career during the 1979-80 basketball year as the Gull Lake JV boys basketball.  After 14 years of coach the freshmen and JV teams, Coach Sprague took over the varsity coaching reigns in 1996 at Gull Lake.  After 21 years as the varsity coach, he compiled a 340-160 record including six conference championships and six district titles, highlighted with 2 trips to the Final Four at the Breslin Center.

Coach Sprague graduated from Western Michigan University with a BA in History and minored in Communication and Political Science.  He also earned a degree in Secondary Education and later earned a Master’s Degree in Political Science.  He retired from teaching after 35 years at Gull Lake High School.

Coach Sprague and his wife, Irma, presently lives in Comstock.  They have four children; Mark who resides in Los Angeles, Alison who resides in Boston and Drew and Adam who reside in Kalamazoo.