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The Men's Basketball Coach at Penn State
Altoona and a former college player at Youngstown State
University who has been devoted to sharing his message of hard work and
determination. Those two traits were the building blocks that took him from
being a high school role player to a Division I walk-on. He is entering his 12th
year speaking at, working, and directing basketball camps in the Eastern United
States.
He entered the college coaching ranks after
completing his playing career at YSU and is in his second season as the the head
men's basketball coach at Penn State Altoona. He has complied a 16-35 record in
his two seasons as a head coach with one appearance in the Allegheny Mountain
Collegiate Conference Tournament.
Before his appointment as the head coach at
Penn State Altoona he served as the Assistant Men's Basketball Coach at
the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and worked under Coach Bob Rukavina.
The Mountain Cats had a combined record of 47-16 during his two seasons with the
program. During that time they won the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference regular season championship (2007-2008) and the conference tournament
championship (2008-2009). They advanced in back to back seasons to the NCAA
Division II tournament and two of his student athletes were All-American
selections.
In 2005-2006, he began his career on the
bench as the Assistant Coach at Penn State Altoona for Alan Seretti. He then
moved on to Indiana State University where he was a member of Coach Royce
Waltman's coaching staff during the 2006-2007 season. The Sycamores went on to
defeat three teams that advanced to the NCAA tournament: Butler, Creighton, and
Purdue.
He
enjoys teaching the game of basketball to boys and girls of all ages. His
instruction includes perimeter skills and guard play in addition to his emphasis on player
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