Marshall University Athletics
Popovic Named Assistant Coach for Thundering Herd
1/18/2022 12:53:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Marshall video coordinator promoted
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall Women's Basketball has promoted video coordinator Janko Popovic to assistant coach, head coach Tony Kemper announced on Tuesday.
Popovic has handled the program's video efforts since his arrival in September of 2020. His duties have included scouting games, video analysis, producing videos for recruiting and social media, film exchange and a liaison for video and scouting software.
"I'm excited to move into coaching ranks and thrilled to be doing it with the Thundering Herd," said Popovic. "Having a chance to work with everyone on this staff has been incredible and I just want to thank Coach Kemper and Senior Woman Administrator Beatrice Crane Banford for this opportunity." Prior to joining the Herd, Popovic was the video coordinator for Texas Tech Women's Basketball for the 2019-20 season. While he was there, the team finished with an 18-11 record, its best over the previous seven years. In 2018-19, he worked for the Serbian national team as a training camp coach in preparation for a bronze-medal run in EuroBasket 2019 in Serbia and Latvia. He returned in the summer of 2021 as an assistant coach/scout and helped lead the team to the gold at Spain's EuroBasket 2021 and a fourth-place finish at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Popovic served as the Director of Operations and Video Coordinator for Robert Morris Women's Basketball during the 2017-18 season. The team finished 25-8 as regular season NEC champions, NEC Tournament Runners-Up and also appeared in the WNIT. He graduated with a Master of Business Administration from Winthrop University in 2017 and has a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from LeMoyne-Owen College in 2014.
Popovic is from Belgrade, Serbia.
"Our whole organization is happy to officially welcome Coach Pop," Kemper said. "Since he arrived, he has proven to have a passion and excitement for our student-athletes that is infectious. He will help to continue our program's upward trajectory."
Marshall (9-5 overall, 4-1 Conference USA) is back in action Thursday at home against FIU at 6 p.m. inside the Cam Henderson Center. Admission is $5.
