Brandon Lesovsky has been an assistant men's basketball coach at Kansas Wesleyan since the start of the 2008-09 season. He returned to Wesleyan after two one-year stints at Cowley College and Neosho County CC the previous two seasons.
Lesovsky, a native of Cuba, Kan., came to KWU after graduating from Hillcrest High School in 1997. He received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan in history in 2001, and completed his MBA degree in 2004 also at KWU.
Coach Lesovsky led the State of Kansas in assists his senior year at Hillcrest High School in North Central Kansas with 7.7 per game. He was a three-sport letterman at HHS, earning numerals in football, basketball and track. A little publicized fact is that Brandon holds the number two all-time Kansas record in football for rushing yards in a single game with 483. His combined passes and catches in that contest also placed him number two all-time in total offense at the tine, 1994. In the Kansas Eight-Man All-State Football Game his senior year, Brandon was named the Most Vaulable Player. Coach Lesovsky went on to earn a football letter as a wide receiver at Kansas Wesleyan University.
During his first stint at KWU, Lesovsky worked with former coach Jerry Jones as an assistant coach, responsible for all aspects of the program, from recruiting to game day operations. He was also head coach of the KWU tennis programs from 2003 until 2006.
After leaving Wesleyan following the 2005-06 season, Lesovsky spent one season at Cowley College in Arkansas City as assistant coach for the Tigers program.
In 2007-08, Lesovsky was an assistant coach at Neosho County Community College in Chanute, working under former Kansas Wesleyan player Jeremy Coombs, who assumed the head coaching position for the Panthers prior to the start of the 2007-08 season. Under the direction of Coombs and Lesovsky, Neosho improved from a 5-25 record in 2006-07 to a 14-15 record and fourth place finish in the Jayhawk East last year.
Lesovsky returned to Wesleyan in 2008-09 to return to the coaching ranks with coach Mike Davert, reuniting the coaching duo that were both assistants under Jones in 2005-06.