Chicago Bulls Assistant Nate Loenser

Nate Loenser was born without his left hand. However, that never slowed him down, let alone stopped him, from pursuing his dreams on the field. Loenser was a multisport varsity athlete, and an all-state baseball player, for NU High in Cedar Falls. After committing to serve as a basketball manager for Tim Floyd at Iowa State, Nate ended up walking on to the Iowa State baseball team. Loenser was cut from the team after the first time he tried out but was asked to come back to the team as a senior after getting noticed in a wood bat league game. In true Moonlight Graham fashion, Loenser had one at-bat (a walk) and a run scored. The Cyclone baseball program was cut later that same season.  After college, Loenner took a job coaching as a grad-assistant for Larry Eustachy at Southern Miss. Loenser credits Eustachy with teaching him a lot about coaching and working with high-level athletes. Following a stint as a high school basketball coach, Loesner went back to Ames to serve as a grad assistant under Fred Hoiberg on some of those great recent Cyclone teams. Loesner followed Hoiberg to Chicago and has worked his way up from video coordinator and currently serves as an assistant coach for the Bulls.