Rodney Tention

Rodney Ellis Tention (born May 27, 1963) is an American basketball coach who currently serves as the head coach at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, California.^[1]

Rodney Tention

Tention as assistant coach for Stanford in 2010.
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Saint Francis HS (Mountain View, CA)
Biographical details
Born	(1963-05-27) May 27, 1963 (age 62) Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Playing career
1983–1984	Air Force
1984–1985	Grossmont CC
1986–1988	San Francisco
Position(s)	Point guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1988–1989	Skyline CC (assistant)
1989–1991	South Florida (assistant)
1991–1994	College of Notre Dame (assistant)
1994–1997	College of Notre Dame
1997–2005	Arizona (assistant)
2005–2008	Loyola Marymount
2008–2011	Stanford (assistant)
2011–2015	San Diego (assistant)
2015–2017	San Jose State (assistant)
2018–2019	Palo Alto HS
2019–2021	Cal Poly (assistant)
2021–2023	Palo Alto HS (assistant)
2023–present	Saint Francis HS (Mountain View, CA)
Head coaching record
Overall	48–123 (.281)

Tention was formerly the head men's basketball coach at the College of Notre Dame and Loyola Marymount University. He then served an assistant at Stanford University under head coach Johnny Dawkins for three years, at San Diego under Bill Grier for five, and at San Jose State under Dave Wojcik for two. Following Wojcik's resignation, Tention became interim head coach of San Jose State on July 11, 2017.^[2] He held this position while the school performed its search, eventually hiring Jean Prioleau.^[3]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
College of Notre Dame Argonauts[4] (Northern California Athletic Conference) (1994–1997)
1994–95	College of Notre Dame	8–18	6–8
1995–96	College of Notre Dame	4–22	1–13
1996–97	College of Notre Dame	6–20	2–12
College of Notre Dame:		18–60 (.231)	9–33 (.214)
Loyola Marymount Lions (West Coast Conference) (2005–2008)
2005–06	Loyola Marymount	12–18	8–6	3rd
2006–07	Loyola Marymount	13–19	5–9	6th
2007–08	Loyola Marymount	5–26	2–12	8th
Loyola Marymount:		30–63 (.323)	15–27 (.357)
Total:		48–123 (.281)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion