David Wells enters his fifth season as head women's basketball coach in 2023-24.
Wells, who has an overall career record of 16-64 (8-48 A-R-C), coached the Beavers to an adjusted eight-game conference-only schedule in 2020-21 as a result of COVID-19. Despite the adjustment, he coached the A-R-C Defensive Player of the Year that season as well as its first First Team all-conference selection in three years.
During his first season on campus, Wells had one player earn Honorable Mention All-Conference accolades and had seven players earn academic all-conference honors. That same year, his Beaver squad also landed the nation's highest cumulative team GPA (regardless of division) of 3.865 - the highest mark by any program in 19 years.
Overall, Wells has coached one all-conference and four honorable mentions players, along with 28 academic all-conference student-athletes. In 2022-23, the Beavers also had four individuals named Academic All-District.
Wells comes to campus with a wealth of Division II coaching experience under his belt. He has spent the last seven years serving as the top women's basketball assistant at Metropolitan State University of Denver. During his most recent stint with the Roadrunners, he helped guide them into the Second Round of the NCAA DII Tournament in 2018 where they finished 23-9 overall. He also served as an assistant with the program in 2010-11 when the team advanced into the Elite Eight and finished with its best season in school history at 30-3. He's coached seven all-conference players and a pair of All-Americans during his tenure and was also Assistant to Coach of the Year in both 2011 and 2018.
From 2011-13, Wells was an assistant women's basketball coach at Millersville University (Pa.) where he also helped develop all phases of the strength and conditioning program as well helping with player development, recruiting and other administrative duties. He was an assistant coach for the Boulder Rockies Basketball Club (Colo.) from 2009-11.
Wells is a native of Colorado and grew up in Lakewood while graduating from Green Mountain High School. He went on to attend the University of Northern Colorado and participated in track and field. His coaching career began at Golden High School where he served as head track coach, assistant football coach and assistant basketball coach.
He earned a bachelors degree in Exercise Science and a minor in Psychology from MSU Denver in 2011. He and his wife, Stacy, have three sons, Kai, Hudson and Walker.
