New London-Spicer’s Mike Dreier is first MN girls basketball coach to 1,000 wins

Mike Dreier’s 44 years coaching at New London-Spicer High School has delivered him to a milestone no girls basketball coach in Minnesota has ever reached. But his value to the community and players he’s coached is worth far more than a record-setting number of victories.

Click the video box on this page to watch KSTP Sports’ story on New London-Spicer coach Mike Dreier’s 1,000th win including interviews from his players past and present who credit him for teaching them lessons they apply well beyond the basketball court

Midway through Dreier’s 44th season as their head coach, his Wildcats beat Watertown-Mayer in front of a packed gym in New London for his 1,000th career win.

He’s the first girls basketball coach in state history to reach the milestone and trails only legendary boys coach Bob McDonald’s 1,012 wins for the all-time lead by a boys or girls basketball coach.