Chris Boettcher is entering his eighth season as a member of Coach Nixon's staff in 2008-09 and was recently promoted to Associate Head Coach. Boettcher's responsibilities include the defense and working with the guards.
Prior to coming to Utah Valley, he spent one season coaching at Vale High School near Ontario, Oregon.
Before assuming his role at Vale, Boettcher spent time in Japan where he served as the Basketball Consultant for the city of Takayama from 1997 to 2000. In Takayama he worked with elementary aged kids to junior college players and was specifically assigned to preparing the best boys and girls high school teams for the National Tournament. Boettcher succeeded in that task, helping the teams reach the National Tournament for the first time ever.
Coach Boettcher continues his ties to Japan to this day, returning each summer to run clinics throughout the country.
Prior to working in Japan, Boettcher was an assistant coach for the Metro State men's team under coach Charles Bradley from 1994 to 1997. His association with Bradley began at Brigham Young University where Boettcher was a student assistant coach under Roger Reid and an assistant JV coach under John Hansen from 1989 to 1994.
Boettcher prepped at Weiser High in Idaho, lettering in football, basketball and baseball. After graduating in 1986, he served a LDS Church mission in Kobe, Japan from 1987 to 1989. He earned a bachelor's degree from BYU in math with a P.E. coaching minor in 1994.
While at BYU, he was introduced to Cinthya Mallea from Tampa, Florida, who became the love of his life from that moment on. The two were married in 1991. Today Coach Boettcher and his wife have five children; four boys, (Jacob, Nikolas, Ethan, and Noah) and one daughter, (Isabel).
