Head Coach

Brian Morehouse

Brian Morehouse '91 has developed the Hope College women's basketball team into one of the nation's elite programs during his tenure, guiding the Flying Dutch to national championships in 2022 and 2006 and a national runner-up finish in 2010.

Through the 2022-23 season, the Flying Dutch have won 658 games and 17 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association championships. His teams have made 20 NCAA Division III Tournament appearances.

In 2022, Morehouse guided the Flying Dutch to the third national title in team history and a 32-1 overall record. Hope extended a winning streak to 61 games over three seasons — tying for the third-longest in NCAA Division III history.

In 2021, Morehouse led Hope to a 16-0 record in a season shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Flying Dutch's 45-game winning streak set a school record and ranked as the eighth-longest in NCAA Division III history.

In 2020, Morehouse guided Hope to being the only undefeated team in Division III women's basketball with the No. 1 ranking. The Flying Dutch were one of 16 teams in title contention before the NCAA Tournament was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also marked the 22nd consecutive time the Flying Dutch had earned at least 20 wins during his tenure.

During the 2020 season, Morehouse reached the 600-win mark in his 690th game — faster than any basketball coach in NCAA history at any level, women's or men's.

Morehouse has been chosen as the Division III National Coach of the Year three times by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (2021, 2020, 2006). He was also named Division III Coach of the Year by D3hoops.com (2019-20).

The Detroit Free Press included Morehouse among the state's top sports figures in 2006 and among the candidates for the newspaper's annual "Michigan's Best" honor roll.

Morehouse has been named the Michigan Collegiate women's basketball coach of the year by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan four times in his career (2001-02, 2007-08, 2011-12, 2015-16).

Morehouse is ranked among Division III's elite active coaches by winning percentage. After the 2022-23 season, he is ranked second in winning percentage (87.4%).

A 1991 Hope graduate who serves as director of the college's DeVos Fieldhouse, Morehouse is familiar with the Hope basketball scene having served in the men's program for a number of years. He was the men's junior varsity coach for two years, compiling a record of 30-9. He was a student assistant coach through his undergraduate years.

Morehouse majored in business administration and had minors in history, psychology, and sociology and earned a teaching certificate for secondary education. He holds a master's degree in sports management from Western Michigan University.

Morehouse's basketball roots run deep. His father, Dean, was the boy's basketball coach at Fremont (Mich.) High School. He joined son Brian as an assistant coach in 2000-01. Brian and Dean were honored as "Hometown Heroes" during the 2006 National Baby Food Festival in Fremont.

Morhouse contributed a chapter to the book, "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball," chronicling an experience from the 2006 national championship run (February, 2009). Also, he was a contributor to a book Leadership Off the Wall (2010) by Paul B. Thornton.

Morehouse currently represents MIAA coaches on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Conference Captains Committee and serves as a member of the WBCA board. He also serves as a member of the board of the Hand Up Fund, and is involved with Special Olympics and Holland Area Hospice.

His wife, Elizabeth (Liz) Hain, a 1993 Hope graduate, played in the college's basketball program for two years. The Morehouses have two daughters, Meg and Emma.