{"id":72768,"date":"2023-04-24T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=72768"},"modified":"2023-04-24T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:29:15","slug":"talia-kahrs-elevated-to-head-womens-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=72768","title":{"rendered":"Talia Kahrs elevated to head women&#8217;s basketball coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BY CAYDEN SANDERS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, Fort Hays State University announced the hiring of Talia Kahrs as the seventh head coach in women\u2019s basketball program history. For Kahrs, who is the protege of former head coach Tony Hobson, becoming a head coach has been a long time coming for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen Curtis [Hammeke] called me wanting to promote Talia, I could not wait to sign off on the move,\u201d FHSU President Tisa Mason said at Kahrs\u2019 introductory press conference. \u201cShe has helped this team succeed in recent years, and I don\u2019t think the expectations drop for her and the team when the season starts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kahrs was with the Tigers program first as a player in the 2008-09 season. From there, the former player became Hobson\u2019s student assistant coach and then worked her way up the ladder and found herself in the assistant coaching position for 11 years. With the news this off-season of Hobson retiring, the move for the Athletics department was easy to make.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI talked to Talia [Kahrs] right after Tony [Hobson] said that he was retiring,\u201d FHSU Athletic Director Curtis Hammake said in Kahrs\u2019 press conference. \u201cOnce Talia was on board, we knew she was the one we wanted to fill the role.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Press Conference, TMN spoke with Kahrs and some current players on the team about the transition.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TMN Interview with FHSU WBB Head Coach Talia Kahrs\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9-FZHd-X53U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kahrs and the team have already started in the transition, with meetings and expectations on where the team will be at the start of the fall semester. The schedule has not been released yet from the Tigers, but the expectations set by Hobson\u2019s tenure, will not be forgotten by Kahrs and company going forward, as Kahrs has been a part of all the success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Kahrs tenure with the program, she competed in 52 games as a player. In her 12 years as a coach, she helped the team to a 293-78 record, reaching 20 wins every year since being a coach (the longest active streak among DII schools). Kahrs has been a part of the winningest program in the MIAA since the 2012 season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During that stretch, FHSU achieved 30 wins three times, six MIAA championships, and a four-time No. 1 seed in the central region while earning an NCAA postseason berth seven times in the last nine seasons while making it to the regional championship three of those years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY CAYDEN SANDERS Earlier this month, Fort Hays State University announced the hiring of Talia Kahrs as the seventh head coach in women\u2019s basketball program&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":70529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7349,3395],"tags":[11634,3448,15206,129],"class_list":["post-72768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-womens-basketball-sports","tag-fhsu-wbb","tag-fhsu-womens-basketball","tag-talia-kahrs","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/WBB-Kearny-Madison-Shapland_11-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72769,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72768\/revisions\/72769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}