Women's Basketball Coaching Staff

Head coach Scott Blum (E-mail)
7th Season at Grace College * Grace Graduate 1993 * Michelle Blum (wife)
1995 NCCAA Champion (coach) * 1992 National Championship (player)

Scott Blum begins his seventh season as the head coach of the Grace College women’s basketball team. Blum is coming off his most successful conference season after winning five games in the Mid-Central College Conference in 2010.

Blum has also led the Lady Lancers to back-to-back appearances in the NCCAA National Tournament held at the Orthopaedic Capital Center. Grace finished in sixth place in 2009 and seventh place in 2010.

Blum has a very special spot in the history of Grace Basketball as a player, as well. As a starting guard in the early 1990s, he was an NAIA All-American and NCCAA Player of the Year. He was also a major component in the men’s basketball team’s national championship in 1992 under Coach Jim Kessler.

In high school, Blum scored 1,576 career points at Oregon-Davis and became the only player to have his number retired in school history. He then played two seasons at NCCAA Div. I Valparaiso University before transferring to Grace for his final two seasons, where he led the Lancers to a 59-11 record. Blum graduated from Grace in 1993.

While his playing pedigree is exemplary, Blum has also shown he knows how to work the sideline as well. In his first stint as an interim head coach at Indiana Wesleyan University in 1995, Blum led the men's team to the NCCAA National Championship. He also spent four years as the men's head coach at Trinity International in Chicago and at Lakewood Park Christian School in Auburn, Ind. He also spent two years as an assistant coach for Grace’s men’s basketball team.

Blum and his wife Michelle have three boys: Tanner, Connor, and Asher. He is also a professor in the physical education department at Grace.

Assistant Coach Skip Forbes (E-mail)
31 Years at Grace College * Broome College Graduate 1958 * Carol Forbes (wife)
1992 National Champion (assistant coach)

Forbes enters his fifth season with the women's basketball team as an assistant coach.

However, he is no stranger to Grace basketball, as he was the men's assistant coach for over a decade from 1983 to 1995. He has a national championship on his résumé as well with the men’s NAIA National Championship team in 1992.

Forbes earned an engineering degree at Broome College and was a religious studies professor at Grace prior to retirement. He and his wife Carol reside in Winona Lake, Ind.