The 2021-22 season marks the first for David Midlick as an assistant coach on the Redhawks women’s basketball staff.
Midlick previously led the Austin Peay women's basketball team as the head coach. Midlick guided the Governors to six-consecutive Ohio Valley Conference Tournament appearances from 2015 to 2021.
In his six seasons at the helm in Clarksville, Tennessee, Midlick coached five All-OVC players, including 2016-17 Player of the Year, Tearra Banks.
Midlick led the Governors to 18 regular season wins in 2019-20, which is the most regular-season wins in program history since the 2003-04 team won 20 regular-season games.
Midlick's Governors broke the Austin Peay single-season team three-point record twice. The 2019-20 squad buried a program record 267 three pointers, which led the OVC and ranked 14th nationally.
Prior to leading the APSU women's basketball team, Midlick served as the associate head coach at Memphis and the head coach at Delta State. He also was an assistant coach at Tennessee State (2006-10) and had prior coaching stints with both the men's and women's programs at Austin Peay.
Midlick got his college coaching start as a volunteer assistant with the Austin Peay men’s basketball team in 2003, holding that position through 2006 during an era that saw the Govs finish unbeaten in Ohio Valley Conference play in 2003-04 and advance to two conference tournament championship games (2004 and 2006) and one National Invitational Tournament appearance in 2004.
Midlick served two seasons as head coach at Delta State University, guiding the Lady Statesmen to consecutive Gulf South Conference regular-season championships and two NCAA Division II South Region appearances, including a Sweet 16 berth.
Midlick has also coached at the high school level and was a highly successful physical therapist before he pivoted to basketball.
Midlick began his career in the high school ranks, coaching boys and girls basketball at various points in his prep career in Mississippi. He entered the coaching ranks at Washington High School in 1994-95 and took a boys’ program that won just six games in two seasons before his arrival and compiled a 90-77 record in his six seasons at the helm. He also guided the girls’ team to its first winning season since 1991 during a three-year stint leading that program. Midlick was named the Mississippi Independent Association of Schools North AAA Coach of the Year in 1996 and MAIS District I-AAA Coach of the Year in 1999. In between stints at Washington High, he led Indianola Academy to a district 1-AA championship.
He graduated from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor's degree in Biological Science in 1991 and earned his Bachelor's in Physical Therapy from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1994.
As a player, Midlick was a three-year letter winner at Ole Miss under head coach Ed Murphy from 1988-91. The Rebels played in the NIT in 1989 – with Midlick leading the team in free-throw percentage and three-point field goal percentage – and were Southeastern Conference tournament finalists in 1990.
Midlick, a Memphis, Tennessee native, is married to the former Leslie Biddle. The couple has two sons, David Jr. and Will.
