Ashton Pomrehn joins the Alaska Anchorage basketball staff for his first season in 2025-26 as the top assistant coach for head coach Rusty Osborne.
A former Seawolf, Pomrehn returns to UAA after an impressive start to his collegiate coaching career, including stops at the NCAA Div. II, junior college and NAIA levels.
The Arcata, Calif., native spent the past two seasons at JC program Shasta College, helping the Knights to just their second playoff appearance in 15 years and the second-largest turnaround in the California JC ranks from 2023-24 to 2024-25. Pomrehn was key in the recruitment and development of three all-conference players and six of the top seven scorers on that squad.
At fellow NCAA Div. II West Region program Chico State from 2021-23, Pomrehn contributed to a Wildcat club that finished 22-5, reached No. 4 in the national rankings and advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight his first season. In addition to working with All-American Malik Duffy and two other first-team All-CCAA selections, he also recruited and helped develop 2023 CCAA Freshman of the Year and all-league guard Jojo Murphy.
Pomrehn coached during the Covid-shortened 2020-21 campaign at NAIA program Simpson University in Redding, Calif., after starting his career as an assistant at Humboldt State (2018-19) and Chico State (2019-20). At Humboldt, he contributed to a squad that won the program’s most games in six seasons, while in his first stop at Chico he helped the Wildcats to a 23-7 mark – the program’s most regular-season victories since 1984.
As a player, Pomrehn spent his senior season of 2017-18 at Humboldt State (now known as Cal Poly Humboldt), where he averaged 5.9 points per game and led the Lumberjacks with 47 three-pointers. He played at UAA as a junior in 2016-17, contributing off the bench in every contest for a team that went 21-8 and finished GNAC runner-up. Pomrehn starred his first two collegiate seasons at Shasta College, and was an all-area performer during his prep career at McKinleyville High School.
Pomrehn graduated from Humboldt State in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and earned his master of science in coaching and exercise sciences from Concordia University Irvine in 2021.
