Santa Clara University

Ryan Madry is entering his eighth season as a member of Herb Sendek's coaching staff in 2025-26. He was promoted to Associate Head Coach in July 2025 after serving as an assistant coach for the previous seven seasons.

The Broncos have posted a winning record in each of Madry's seven season on staff. The streak of seven-consecutive winning seasons is tied for the second-longest streak in program history (1956-'57 through '62-63). 

During his first seven seasons, Madry also helped lead the Broncos to three appearances in the National Invitation Tournament, coached 13 players that earned a total of 21 all-conference honors, and has had a hand in the development of two NBA first round draft picks in Jalen Williams and Brandin Podziemski. 

The last four seasons have been some of the best in recent history for the Broncos. With Madry's assistance, the Broncos have compiled 85 total wins (tied for most in a four-year stretch in program history), NIT appearances in three of the four years, and had a player selected in the first round of the NBA Draft in both 2022 and 2023.

Madry was the primary recruiter for Brandin Podziemski, who would go on to have one the greatest one-and-done seasons in program history, culminating in being drafted 19th overall in the first round of the 2023 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors. Podziemski is among the top young players in the NBA, being named to the NBA Rising Stars in each of his first two seasons. 

In 2024-25, the Broncos won 12 conference games (most since 1994-95) and extended their streak of 20-win seasons to a program-record four straight years with a 21-13 overall record. Santa Clara finished inside the top four of the the WCC standings for the fourth-consecutive year and received a bid to play in the NIT as a 2-seed. The Broncos won the first game of the NIT for their first win in the tournament since 1984. Garson helped develop three All-WCC selections, including first team honoree Adama-Alpha Bal, who earned first team honors for the second-straight year. Santa Clara has had at least one First Team honoree in five-straight seasons - their longest such streak since 2004-05 through 2008-09. 

2023-24 saw the Broncos extend their streak of 20-win seasons to three straight with a 20-13 record, which featured a 3-1 mark against Pac-12 opponents and the team's first victory over Gonzaga (ranked 22nd nationally) since 2011. Santa Clara finished inside the top four of the WCC standings for the third-straight year and advanced to the WCC Championship semifinal round. Madry had a hand in the development in four all-conference players, including first team honoree Adama-Alpha Bal.  

2022-23 was among the most memorable seasons of the modern era for Santa Clara with the Broncos winning 23 games (fourth-most in program history), finishing third in the WCC standings for the second-straight season with an 11-5 record (most league wins since 1994-94), a seven-game win streak to close the regular season (longest since 1997-98), a second-straight postseason bid to the NIT, and producing the Co-Player of the Year in the WCC in Podziemski. Podziemski, one of three all-conference players that Madry had a hand in developing, including Carlos Stewart and Keshawn Justice, was also the league's Newcomer of the Year and an all-region selection. 

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. Of course, Williams would soon prove to be among the top players in the NBA, earning a spot as an NBA All Star and being named Third Team All-NBA and Second Team All-Defense en route to winning the 2025 NBA Championship in just his third year in the league. 

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.

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

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.