Ross Faldet is entering his second season as the assistant on the women's basketball team in 2025-26.
Faldet spent the 2023-24 season with the Lady Blues as a part-time assistant and helped IC to a 15-11 overall record including a 10-6 slate in the Midwest Conference. IC reached the semifinals of the conference tournament.
Faldet came to the Hilltop after one season as an assistant coach at Loras College where he helped the Duhawks to one of their most successful seasons in school history including a 24-5 overall record, 12-2 conference record, a conference tournament championship, and the school’s third NCAA tournament win. For the first time in program history, Loras was selected as a host site for the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. Individually, the Duhawks had an honorable mention All-American selection, a second-team all-region pick, four all-conference honorees, and four conference “players of the week.” Success came off the court as well as five Loras players earned academic all-conference accolades, three of which were academic all-district picks as well.
Prior to joining the Loras staff, Faldet served as the head girls’ basketball coach at Clearbrook-Gonvick High School in Clearbook, Minnesota from 2003-2022. Faldet took a program that had never had a winning season and achieved a postseason championship within four years. His teams finished in the top four of a 10-team subsection for 13 consecutive years including four post-season championships and over three hundred wins. His players earned 73 all-conference awards, 17 individual academic all-state awards, and fifteen team academic all-state awards. Faldet was named both the section and conference Coach of the Year during his time at Clearbrook-Gonvick.
From 1997-2000, Faldet was the assistant boys basketball coach at Kodiak High School in Kodiak, Alaska. During his tenure, he helped build the program that eventually boasted the most successful teams in school history including a state title-winning squad and another that finished third. Faldet helped develop several award-winning and college players including a USA Today Alaska Player of the Year selection.
Ross began his coaching career at the high school level in Minnesota with stops at Clearbrook-Gonvick and Wrenshall where he was the head coach for three seasons.
Faldet earned two degrees from Bemidji State University in both 1992 and 1993. Ross and his wife Jennifer have three children: Madelynne, Jonah, and Danielle.
