University of Nebraska Men’s Basketball Coach Fred Hoiberg announced several new additions to the Husker basketball support staff for the 2023-24 season.
It is a mixture of old and new faces including the promotion of Broken Bow grad Padyn Borders as recruiting coordinator. Hoiberg said in a statement, “Padyn and Michael (Michael Bania, new video coordinator), are great additions to our fulltime staff. They have worked their way up in our program as both student managers and graduate managers and have earned the respect of everyone in our program with their work ethic and dedication to making our program better.”
Borders was promoted to recruiting coordinator after spending last season as a graduate manager in the program. In his new role, Borders will help the coaching staff with managing the recruiting landscape for the Huskers with a focus on the NCAA transfer portal, including implementing and managing NU’s recruiting database and assisting with recruiting research. Borders played collegiately at both Central Community College and Peru State before transferring to Nebraska for his final two years of college. He served as a manager during the 2021-22 season and graduated from Nebraska with a degree in business administration in May of 2022.
Borders graduated from Broken Bow high school in 2018. He was a key member of the 2017-18 Broken Bow state qualifying boys basketball team which defeated Boone Central in double overtime (66-64) in the state quarterfinals and claimed a fourth place finish overall at the state tournament.
