TOPEKA, Kan. – Former Fort Hays State basketball standout Jonathan Raney has joined the coaching staff at Washburn.
Raney has spent the last three seasons as the head coach at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence where they went 22-2 before having this season cut short due to COVID-19. He's also spent the last six seasons as an assistant coach with the KC Run GMC summer program.
While at Bishop Seabury he led the team to a 51-18 record with two state high school tournament appearances coaching four all-state players en route to 2A coach of the year honors. Raney spent three seasons as the assistant coach to former Kansas Jayhawk Billy Thomas at The Barstow School in Kansas City (Mo). Raney helped the team to a 76-12 record and back to back MSHSAA state championship games, including the 2015 State championship.
Raney spent three seasons as the head coach at Labette Community College going 50-43 coaching six all-conference players sending 12 players to four-year schools including five NCAA Division I signees. Raney also served as a graduate assistant at Fort Hays State from 2009-11 and was an assistant men's coach at Cowley County during the 2006-07 school year and at Hill Junior College during the 2004-05 season.
Raney played the 2001-03 seasons at Fort Hays State going 44-15 overall with an NCAA Tournament appearance his senior year en route to all-RMAC honors. He played his first two seasons at Cowley County collecting a two-year record of 49-14.
Raney earned his master's degree in health and human performance in 2011 from Fort Hays State and his bachelor's degree in information networking and telecommunications in 2004.
Raney lives in Lawrence his wife, Fernanda, with their two children, Jackson and Gabriela.