Rich Rider

Rider attended Northeast Missouri State University, where he gained undergraduate degrees in business administration (1968) and physical education (1970). He was an assistant at Utah^{[clarification needed]} from 1970-1973. From 1973 to 1982, he was the head coach at Chapman University, where he compiled a 136-104 record and earned an NCAA berth in 1978.^[2] He had a one-year tenure as an assistant at California State University, Bakersfield, and was then an assistant at Boise State University from 1983 to 1992. Rider was the athletic director in the Boise School District in Idaho when hired as head coach at CLU.^[3]

Rider achieved the second highest number of wins for the CLU basketball team in 1999^[4] and later surpassed Don Bielke as the school's most successful basketball coach.^[5]