Bio

Coach Tony Turner enters his seventh season as the Red Raven Women’s Head Basketball Coach. 

Entering the 2025-26 season, Coach Turner has an overall career coaching record of 390-229 (.630 Win %), including his Coffeyville Red Raven record of 126-56 (.677 Win %).

Coach Turner guided the 2024-25 Red Raven Women's Basketball to an overall record of 26-6 and a run through the Region 6 Tournament, where Coffeyville lost in the Championship game to Dodge City.

In the 2023-24 season,  Coach Turner coached the Red Ravens to a 20-12 record with the Ravens losing in the second round of the Region 6 Tournament.  Under Coach Turner, sophomores Bailey Layman, Ivy Fox, and Kyleigh Ortiz all earned all KJCCC end-of-season honors.

The 2022-23 season had Coach Turner guiding the Red Ravens to a 21-13 record, including a berth in the Region 6 Championship game, where the Ravens ultimately finished second in Region 6.

Coach Turner guided the 2021-22 Red Raven team to a 19-11 overall record, including a 13-10 record in KJCCC games.

In his second season, Coach Turner's 2020-21 Red Ravens achieved a 15-7 overall record, including a third-place finish in the KJCCC East.  In the postseason, Turner led Coffeyville into the second round of the 2021 Region VI Tournament.

Coach Turner's first year as the Ravens' head coach in 2019-20 saw Turner guide Coffeyville to a 25-7 record, including a second-place finish in the KJCCC East and a second-round defeat in the 2020 Region VI Tournament.  Turner was named KJCCC East Co-Coach of the Year.

Turner graduated from Independence High School (Independence, Kansas) and then continued his career at Independence Community College from 1985-87, where he held the single-season record for assists of 244 for nearly 20 years.  He concluded his playing career at Morehead State, an NCAA Division I school (Ohio Valley Conference), located in Kentucky. 

Before coming to Coffeyville, Coach Turner served a stint as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach (2014-2019) at Independence Community College.  Before becoming the head Men's coach at ICC, Turner served as the Head Women’s Basketball coach.  In his time as women's coach at ICC (2007-2013), he had the “Most Wins” in ICC Women’s Basketball history, earned the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division Coach of the Year award, and two conference titles.  Turner’s record as a Women’s Head Coach at ICC was an impressive 159-66.    He has had 19 players move on to Division I Institutions, including the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas, Oklahoma State University, Sam Houston State, Fordham University, the University of Akron, and New Mexico State, to name a few. 

Turner and his wife, Molly, have three (3) children and one (1) grandchild.