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| Celebrating 117 years of educating leaders
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Chad Curran
Teacher, Middle School History
Head Coach, Varsity Basketball
Coates Hall 208
(210) 564-6211
c.curran@tmi-sa.org
Chad Curran came to TMI in 2005, shortly after receiving his bachelor’s degree in history from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he played center for four years on the basketball team. During his playing years, the team won its conference championship and earned a spot in the Division II equivalent of the Final Four tournament.
At TMI, he teaches sixth grade World Geography and seventh grade Texas History, and has led his classes on field trips to the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and to the Texas State History Museum in Austin. He also coached junior-varsity mens basketball and was assistant coach for the varsity team.
“TMI has been a great experience for me,” says Coach Curran. “It has given me the opportunity to do what I love, and that is teaching and coaching. The relationships I have built with my students and players here at TMI are what make this job so great.”
Since 2008 - TMI’s 100th year of playing organized basketball - he has been head coach of TMI’s varsity mens basketball, shifting the team’s defensive approach from zone to man-to-man and guiding the Panthers to the championship of the 2008 Marlin Classic Tournament in Port Aransas. Their defense was ranked number-one in the city of San Antonio halfway through the 2008-2009 season, as the Panthers held their opponents to 38 points per game and finished with a 19-7 overall record, sending them into the first round of playoffs.
A former high school football player who was recruited for college football, Coach Curran is also is an assistant coach for varsity football and has served on the coaching staff for the annual HEB All Star Football Game.
Making the transition from player to coach “hasn’t been hard at all,” he says. “As a player, you always have that competitiveness, and you keep that as a coach. Before games, I still get the same feeling I had as a player.”
In his spare time, Coach Curran enjoys competing on a YMCA basketball team with other ex-college players and plays golf at least once a week during the summer.
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