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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 11th
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 the 2009-2010 season marked his first
season as the head men's basketball coach at Penn State Altoona. His team had a
record of 12-14 and reached the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference
Tournament Quarterfinals.
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
has earned a reputation of being known for being an excellent instructor of
perimeter skills and guard play in addition to his emphasis on player
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