The 2011-12 season will be Tamlyn Tills' fourth at Lake Forest College and 17th as a collegiate head coach.
The Foresters posted a 13-10 overall record and 11-7 mark in Midwest Conference play in 2010-11. Lake Forest finished in a three-way tie for third place in the league standings and led the conference in scoring, assists, and assist-to-turnover ratio.
Sophomore Sam Schuring was a First Team All-MWC selection following the 2010-11 season, giving Lake Forest at least one first team all-conference selection in each of Tills' three seasons. In addition, a program record five Foresters were named Academic All-MWC.
Lake Forest has matched or broken 11 school records in Tills' first three seasons. Among the marks are the program's second 108-point game, a player making eight three-pointers in a single contest, and the highest field goal percentage for a Forester in a game, season, and career.
Before coming the Lake Forest, Tills was the head coach at Concordia University Chicago for six seasons. She led the 2007-08 Cougars to the semifinals of the conference tournament and came within one win of the program’s record for victories in a season. Her 2003-04 squad was the first in school history to host a first-round game in the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference Tournament and the 2005-06 squad made the program's first-ever appearance in the league's championship game.
Prior to her time at Concordia Chicago, Tills was a head coach for three seasons (1999-2002) at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and four (1992-96) at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Tills' teams have posted a higher winning percentage than the previous season in 10 of her 16 years as a collegiate head coach.
Tills was also an NCAA Division I assistant coach at Marquette University from 1987-90 and at California State University-Fullerton from 1996-99. She also has experience at the professional level, having worked in the front office of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks from 1987-90.
Her coaching career began at Divine Savior Holy Angels High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she was the athletic director and volleyball and basketball coach from 1985-87.
Tills was also a successful player, scoring more than 1,000 career points at both Milwaukee Lutheran High School and the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She was an All-American and part of the 1980-81 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national championship team at La Crosse and is a member of the school’s Hall of Fame.
