After already making a big name for himself inside the Iowa high school softball world, Rick Dillinger, ADM’s head softball coach now changes his proverbial head gear as he takes the helm of the ADM Lady Tiger basketball team, now in their second full week of practice.

After taking over the Lady Tiger basketball team in early summer, coach Dillinger is getting back in the basketball coaching saddle, a place where he has also had success beyond coaching softball, as a member of the IGCA Basketball Hall Of Fame. Now with his second coaching responsibility here at ADM high school, coach Dillinger is excited for the challenge of taking another ADM team to new heights.

Raccoon Valley Radio sat down with coach Dillinger as he described what excites him most about the new basketball season, and the differences between coaching softball and coaching basketball.

“The thing I’m most excited about is trying to put some new things in and catch us up fundamentally. Hopefully we can get into a running game because we’ve got some speed and we’re just excited about he effort of the kids,” stated coach Dillinger.

As for the changing of the coaching guard, coach Dillinger talks about the big difference from coaching softball to coaching basketball is the time spent with preparation.

“Sometime basketball takes a little more time because of the breakdown of film work all the time. In softball you break down film but you have to do a lot more study of film (in basketball) than you would softball so I would say that’s the biggest difference,” explained coach Dillinger.

Coach Dillinger has just two more days before he kicks off his inaugural coaching debut for the Lady Tigers when they welcome in Des Moines Christian high school for a home match up beginning at 7:30 pm this Friday.