Men's Basketball

Ryan Madry is in his fifth season as an assistant coach with Santa Clara men's basketball.

A Bay Area native, Madry (m-AE-dree) spent 2017-18 as an assistant coach at Seattle University after a six-year stint at UC Santa Barbara.

In 2021-22, Madry helped the Broncos reach the postseason for the first time since 2012-13. The Broncos posted 21 wins for their second 20-win campaign in the last three seasons, the first time that the program has achieved that since 2010-11 through 2012-13, en route to being selected to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) for just the fifth-time in program history. The historic year saw Santa Clara pick up their first win over a ranked opponent since 2004 (over No. 22 Saint Mary's) and first win over BYU since 2017 as three players were selected to All-WCC squad. Jalen Williams and Josip Vrankic were first team selections while Keshawn Justice was a second team pick. Williams in particular had a season to remember, becoming the first Bronco since 2016-17 to earn all-region honors after finishing as the WCC's second-leading scorer at 18.0 ppg. Santa Clara's 10 wins in league play were their most since Herb Sendek's first season in 2016-17. The Broncos finished the year ranked 11th nationally in field goal percentage (48.4) and 16th in 3-point shooting percentage (37.8). 

Williams would go on to be selected 12th overall in the 2022 NBA Draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder, becoming Santa Clara's highest draft pick of the modern era and second-highest pick of all time. He was Santa Clara's first draft pick since 1996 when Steve Nash was picked 15th overall.

In 2019-20, he was part of a Santa Clara coaching staff which helped the team traverse through injuries to six players to post a 16-15 overall mark, including two wins over Pac-12 schools (USC and Washington State) for the first time since 1997-98. With a starting lineup that featured two sophomores (Tahj Eaddy and Josip Vrankic) and two freshmen (Trey Wertz and Guglielmo Caruso), the Broncos still finished tied for fifth in the WCC. Wertz was voted to the WCC All-Freshman team, Eaddy earned second-team honors and Vrankic was all-league honorable mention.

During his season at Seattle, the team finished 20-14 and reached the Western Athletic Conference tournament semifinals en route to a spot in the College Basketball Invitational Tournament. The win total marked a program high since returning to Division I status in 2008-09.

While at UC Santa Barbara, the program won 19-plus games in four seasons with three of those concluding with a postseason trip.

Madry, who was hired at Santa Clara in May 2018, began a stretch of four straight years working in the Bay Area in 2006-07 when he served as assistant coach at West Valley College in Saratoga. The following season he was elevated to head coach.

He spent two years (2008-10) as the video coordinator at San Francisco before serving as the director of basketball operations at Cal State Fullerton in 2010-11.

Madry played two seasons at West Valley College before concluding his collegiate career at the University of West Georgia, where he served as co-captain as a senior in 2004-05. He earned his bachelor's degree in sports management from West Georgia in 2006.

Madry's first coaching experience came in 2005-06 with West Georgia as a graduate assistant.

He hails from Oakland where he played at Bishop O’Dowd High School.

Madry and his wife, Katherine, have one daughter, Skylar, and two sons, Caden and Killian.