Brad Willems enters his first year as the Women's Basketball Coach at MCC. He was named the men's and women's coach in July of 2026.

Coach Willems comes to Manhattan from Central Christian College in McPherson, Kansas where he was the head women's coach there for the past three seasons. Before being the head coach at Central Christian (KS), he was the head coach for the girls' basketball program at Canton-Galva High School in Galva, Kansas for one season.

Willems played one season of basketball at Neosho County Community College before transferring to Bethany College (KS) where he played football for two seasons. Willems got his start in coaching as a student assistant for the Bethany College football and baseball teams in the late 1990s. From there he has coached multiple sports over the past 25 years at the junior high and high school level, with stops out in western Kansas at Oakley High School in Oakley, Kansas, and Wallace County High School in Sharon Springs, Kansas.

Brad and his wife, Jacque, currently live in Galva, Kansas and they have three children Katelyn, who is an airborne medic in the Army, Jake, who is a maintenance electrician at Great Plains, and Claire, who will be a junior at Canton-Galva High School.