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New Athletics Leader Named Alumnus and Longtime WNBA Head Coach Brian Agler to Oversee Wittenberg’s Department of Athletics and Recreation Forty-four years after he helped lead the Wittenberg University men’s basketball team to the 1977 NCAA Division III national championship as a freshman point guard, Brian Agler, class of 1980, will return to his alma mater as the new Vice President and Director of Athletics and Recreation, Wittenberg President Michael Frandsen, Ph.D., announced today. Agler is expected to begin on January 18. A 1995 inductee into Wittenberg’s Athletics Hall of Honor and a 2014 inductee into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame, Agler returns to Springfield after a groundbreaking career as a women’s basketball coach. A native of Prospect, Ohio, Agler most recently spent two years as head coach of the Dallas Wings of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). ....