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Wesley Brooks

American college basketball coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ131575751
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Wesley Brooks is an American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the Utah State Aggies women's basketball team.

Early life

A native of Richmond, Virginia, Brooks attended West Virginia University where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2004 and master's degree in 2006. While an undergraduate student at WVU, he served as the manager for the West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team.

Coaching career

On April 1, 2024, Brooks was named as the 11th head coach at Utah State.

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This entry incorporates text from Wesley Brooks” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.