Skip Noon
Athletics DirectorAlma Mater: Martin Luther College '86
E-mail: edward.noon@wlc.edu
Office Phone: (414) 443-8871
Edward "Skip" Noon is in his 16th season as the head men’s basketball coach at Wisconsin Lutheran College while also serving as the college’s athletics director, a position he has held since 1998.
During his tenure, Noon has collected 204 career coaching victories while also guiding the Warriors to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 2006. Since the inaugural season of the former Lake Michigan Conference in 1975, Noon and the Warriors are linked to the most dominant period in LMC history, winning six regular season titles in seven years, including a string of five titles in a row (1996-2000), a feat unmatched in the conference. After a one-year blip, the Warriors claimed another title in 2002. That same season, Noon garnered coach of the year honors in the LMC for the fifth time in his career (1996-99, 2002).
During that seven-year run, the Warriors posted a 69-19 (.784) record in the LMC. In each of those seven seasons, Noon coached the conference player of the year: Kon Knueppel (1996, 1998), Scott Frey (1997), Joshua Metzger (1999-01) and Paul Nelson (2002). Metzger is the only three-time recipient of the award.
Noon, Wisconsin Lutheran’s all-time winningest men’s basketball coach, earned his 200th career win last season in an 83-51 win at Rockford College in the Warriors’ inaugural season in the Northern Athletics Conference (NAC). The Warriors put together seven-game winning streaks in each of the past two seasons, the first of which carried them all the way to the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.
“We have had a great mix of unselfish players, and that set the tone for what Wisconsin Lutheran basketball is all about,” says Noon. “From the time I took over in 1993, we’ve tried to do things the right way and not take shortcuts. Since then, the players have bought into the system.”
Noon came to Wisconsin Lutheran in the fall of 1992 as the men’s basketball coach and associate athletics director; he was promoted to athletics director six years ago. Prior to his arrival, Noon worked nearly six years at Michigan Lutheran High School (St. Joseph, Mich.) beginning in 1987. There he taught in the math and business departments. He also coached boys’ basketball in the winter, girls’ basketball in the fall and track and field in the spring.
In 1986, Noon graduated from Dr. Martin Luther College (New Ulm, Minn.) with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. There he was a cornerback in football and a forward in basketball, earning all-conference honors in both sports. In track and field, he ran the 200 meters and 400 meters, and competed as a high jumper.
Noon was born November 17, 1964 in Tucson, Ariz. He and his wife, Amy, currently live in Menomonee Falls, Wis. Their daughter, Miranda, was born in December of 2000.
