Taekyung “Ted” Kim is entering his second season as coordinator of analytics for Gonzaga women’s basketball after having served as a graduate assistant for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons.
Kim returns to Spokane after having spent the summer of 2018 working as the video coordinator for the Korea Women’s Basketball National Team, assisting the program during three summer tournaments: the William Jones Cup, Asian Games and the FIBA World Cup.
Kim was also active in working with the unified national team that included players of both South Korean and North Korean nationality. During the 2018 summer, that program earned a silver medal in the Asian Games.
During his time as a graduate assistant for the Gonzaga women’s basketball program from 2016-18, Kim helped the Bulldogs to two straight WCC regular-season and tournament titles in addition to two straight NCAA Tournament appearances.
Prior to his position as graduate assistant with the Bulldogs, Kim coached high school basketball for the 2015-16 season at Dulwich College in Seoul, South Korea. He graduated in 2015 from the University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and earned his master’s in organizational leadership from Gonzaga in 2018. Kim also served in the Republic of Korea Marine Corps from 2009-11.
