Chris Wagner Hired As New Girls Basketball Coach At Sheridan HS

Sheridan High School has a new girls basketball coach for next season.

Chris Wagner who has been the coach at Cody for the past 6 seasons, will take over for Ryan Sullivan who has left to take a coaching position at the University of Montana Western.

During his tenure at Cody, Wagner has led the Fillies to 1 state championship and 3 runner-up finishes, including this past season.

After going 8-14 in his first year, his combined record during the last 5 years has been 111-15.  

Wagner has coached against Sheridan a few times, and says what the Lady Broncs do now, is not all that different from what he had Cody doing.

“Tough players, like to work hard. I know the coaches before have kept them in the weight room. That was a big thing behind our success in Cody, so we know we’ve got great girls. The style of play, we’ve kind of got similar styles offensively and defensively, not exact for sure, but you see a lot of the similarities, so that’ll be big, because just stepping into a first year and trying to install a lot of stuff. Maybe the terminology and stuff and getting used to just my style, presenting it to them will be different, but a lot of the concepts and that should be very similar.”

Wagner adds he student taught at Sheridan in 2012 and helped coach the weight room one summer for the Bronc football team.

He was named the Wyoming 4A Girls Basketball Coach of Year in 2022 and 2023.

In ‘22, Cody went 24-1 and lost to Cheyenne East in the 4A State Championship Game.

In ‘23, the Fillies put together an undefeated 4A state championship season going 25-0.