JD Gustin

Title

Head Coach

JD Gustin enters his 10th season as Utah Tech women's basketball head coach in the 2025-26 season.

During the 2023-24 season, Coach Gustin guided the Trailblazers to an 18-14 overall record, including a 12-8 mark in Western Athletic Conference play, which was good for fourth place in the conference standings and a first round bye into the 2024 WAC Tournament.

Coach Gustin's 2023-24 team broke school records in made 3-pointers (327; #1 WAC/#6 NCAA), points (2,343), single game points (116), field goals made/attempted (853/1942), 3-pointers attempted (945), free throw percentage (.736) and fewest turnovers (420).

He mentored two-time first team all-WAC selection (2022-23/2023-24) Breaunna Gillen, who closed her storied career at th

e Utah Tech's career leader in points (1,606 - both M/W), assists (555 - both M/W), triple-doubles (3 - both M/W), games played/started (121/98), and field goals made/attempted (608/1,364).

In addition, Gustin coached a pair of second team all-WAC picks in Emily Isaacson (2022-23) and Maddie Warren (2023-24), along with WAC all-newcomer team honoree Shanaijah Davison (2021-22).

Gustin has seen marked improvements in each season on the Trailblazer sideline, highlighted by an 19-12 overall record in 2022-23, a nine-win turnaround from the previous season. The 2022-23 campaign also featured a 10-8 mark and a fifth-place finish in Western Athletic Conference play. In addition, the Trailblazers made their WAC Tournament debut in 2022-23, and advanced on to the quarterfinal round by defeating Utah Valley, 72-68, to win their first-ever NCAA Division-I era postseason victory.

Utah Tech’s 19 wins that season were the most in the program’s current NCAA Division-I transition, and is the highest win total during Coach Gustin’s tenure on the Trailblazer bench.

In Utah Tech's final Division II season, the Trailblazers played to an 18-12 under Gustin. The team also capped that 2019-20 season by clinching a berth in the 2020 RMAC Tournament, marking the first time the Trailblazers have qualified for a conference tournament since the 2013-14 season. The Trailblazers entered the tournament as the No. 7 seed, and shocked second-seeded Western Colorado in Gunnison, Colorado, for a 65-60 win in the RMAC Quartertfinals.

Two players received All-RMAC recognition at the end of the 2019-20 season, including Ali Franks, who garnered first team All-RMAC recognition to mark the first first team All-Conference honors for the program since the 2015-16 season. Franks, who was the first four-year senior of the Coach Gustin era, also became the program's fourth player to score 1,000 career points, ending her career at No. 2 on the all-time scoring list with 1,161 points.

Before making the move to Utah Tech, Gustin served as an assistant coach at Weber State during the 2015-16 season, where he helped lead the Wildcats to the best overall record in program history (23-12) and a runner-up finish in the 2016 Women's Basketball Invitational Tournament. Three WSU players garnered All-Big Sky Conference honors during Gustin's time as assistant coach, including the Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year Brittney Dunbar.

Prior to Weber State, Gustin spent four years at the University of Utah, serving as director of women's basketball operations from 2011-13 and women's basketball assistant coach from 2013-15. He helped guide the Utes to a runner-up finish in the 2013 Women's National Invitational Tournament (WNIT).

Before his time at Utah, he served as head women's basketball coach at Westminster College for seven seasons from 2004-11, where he compiled a 146-83 record and led the Griffins to five consecutive NAIA National Championship tournament appearances.

He led Westminster to its first-ever NAIA tournament berth in 2006-07, and guided the Griffins to the quarterfinals of the NAIA championships for the first time in school history with a school-record 28 wins in 2010-11. Gustin won three Frontier Conference championships, including a perfect 14-0 conference mark in 2008-09, and coached seven players to All-America honors. In addition, he was a three-time Frontier Conference Coach of the Year honoree.

Gustin served as an assistant coach at Rocky Mountain College in his hometown of Billings, Mont., from 2001-03. While at RMC, he also served as assistant athletic director, sports information director, and JV coach. He was also an assistant coach for the Billings RimRockers of the International Basketball Association.

He began his coaching career as an assistant women's coach at his alma mater, University of Montana Western, in 1999-2000. During his time there, Montana Western won the Frontier Conference tournament and advanced to the NAIA National Tournament for the first time.

Gustin, who played basketball at UMW from 1995-97, graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Secondary Education (biology/history) in 2000. He later earned his Master's degree in Education from Westminster in 2006. Gustin is married to his wife Trish and the couple has three children – Avery, Reese, and Drew.

COACHING HISTORY

Year(s)	School	Position
2016-Present	Utah Tech	Head Coach
2015-16	Weber State	Assistant Coach
2013-2015	Utah	Assistant Coach
2011-2013	Utah	Director of Operations
2004-2011	Westminster	Head Coach
2003-2004	Westminster	Assistant Coach
2001-2003	Rocky Mountain College	Assistant Coach
2000-2001	Billings Rim Rockers	Assistant Coach-Professional
1999-2000	Montana-Western	Graduate Assistant Coach

GUSTIN'S CAREER HEAD COACHING RECORD

Year	School	Overall	Conference
2024-25	Utah Tech	6-25	1-15 (WAC)
2023-24	Utah Tech	18-14	12-8 (WAC)
2022-23	Utah Tech	19-12	10-8 (WAC)
2021-22	Utah Tech	10-19	6-12 (WAC)
2020-21	Utah Tech	1-2	0-0 (WAC)
2019-20	Utah Tech	18-12	12-10 (RMAC)
2018-19	Utah Tech	15-11	11-11 (RMAC)
2017-18	Utah Tech	12-15	8-12 (PacWest)
2016-17	Utah Tech	5-21	5-15 (PacWest)
Utah Tech Total	9 seasons	104-131	65-81
2010-11	Westminster	28-7	12-2
2009-10	Westminster	27-7	13-1
2008-09	Westminster	27-7	14-0
2007-08	Westminster	24-9	10-4
2006-07	Westminster	22-12	8-6
2005-06	Westminster	16-14	7-7
2004-05	Westminster	2-27	0-14
Westminster Total	7 seasons	146-83	64-34
Totals	16 Seasons	250-214	129-126