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Charlotte 49ers head men's basketball coach Bobby
Lutz hired Bobby Kummer as Assistant Basketball
Coach, June 21, 2005. Kummer, who served as the
program's Director of Basketball Operations during
the 2004-05 season, filled the hole vacated by Rob
Moxley, who took a similar position at Maryland
earlier this summer.
Kummer served as an assistant coach for the 49ers
alongside Lutz for two seasons (1996-98), under
then-head coach Melvin Watkins. Kummer moved with
Watkins when Watkins took over as head coach at
Texas A&M and spent six years (1998-2004) as an
assistant, there. He returned to Charlotte, last
season.
"We are fortunate to have Bobby join our staff after
serving us so well as the Director of Basketball
Operations," Lutz said. "He has developed into an
excellent assistant coach with a wide-range of
recruiting contacts. Bobby is also a former player
and he brings the same passion to his job as he did
to the court in his playing days. He will be
involved in all aspects of our program and will be
especially involved with development of our post
players, scouting opponents and defensive
instruction. I am extremely pleased, both personally
and professionally, to announce his hiring at
Charlotte."
"I'm very excited to be able to return to Charlotte
and represent the 49ers as an assistant basketball
coach," Kummer said. "It's a great honor to be able
to come back and coach for the school you played at
and be able to work with such a class guy as coach
Lutz and to be a part of a program with such history
and tradition. I would like to thank coach Lutz,
Miss (Judy) Rose, the current staff and the
university community for this great opportunity for
both myself and my wife."
Kummer, the 49ers team captain in 1995 and 1996
played in 114 games during his four-year 49ers
career. A two-time GTE/CoSIDA Academic all-Region
honoree who graduated cum laude with a Bachelor's
Degree in history in 1996, Kummer was named the
Metro Conference Male Academic Student-Athlete of
the Year in 1995. He won the 49ers' coveted
Grubstake Award in 1993 and 1996 and helped the
49ers to the 1995 Metro Conference Championship and
NCAA Tournament and the 1994 NIT.
Known as a hard-nosed player, Kummer might best be
remembered for losing two teeth in a collision
during a Jan. 19, 1995 game vs. Louisville, spitting
them out and returning to action during that 86-82
victory.
With the hiring of Kummer, Lutz, a 1980 graduate of
the university, now boasts a staff made up entirely
of 49ers. Assistants Benny Moss (1992), Dalonte Hill
(2001) and Kummer (1996) are all UNC Charlotte
graduates.
Kummer, 31, and his wife, Nicole, reside in
Charlotte. |
