Liz Oswald joined the South Dakota women's basketball coaching staff in the spring of 2023. She enters her first year on staff in 2023-24.
Oswald spent the past two years as a graduate assistant coach for Eastern Illinois. Her duties with the Panthers included assisting in individual skill development workouts, planning team travel, organizing on-campus recruiting visits, assisting with managing team apparel, coordinating opponent film exchange and breaking down opponent game film. She was also the assistant coordinator for EIU’s annual CARE Game that raised more than $16,000 for the immediate needs of local cancer patients.
Prior to her time at Eastern Illinois, Oswald spent three summers as the head coach for AAU programs in Deforest and Watertown, Wisconsin. She was also a women’s basketball camp counselor at the University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin in the summers of 2018 and 2019.
A native of Watertown, Wisconsin, Oswald was the point guard for four seasons at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie. She was a two-time team captain, the UW-Stout SAAC President as a senior and a participant in the WBCA’s “So You Want to Be a Coach” program. Oswald graduated in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in applied science. She completed her master's degree in sports administration from Eastern Illinois in May of 2023.
