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IBCA Names 3 Girls Coaches of the Year!

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Three girls coaches honored by IBCA for 2024-25 season

Krebs, Satterfield and Anson-Eaves to receive Bob King Awards as girls' District Coaches of the Year

Three Indiana high school girls basketball coaches have been chosen as 2025 Bob King Coaches of the Year by their peers in the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association, it was announced Thursday (March 20).

Lenny Krebs of Class 4A state runner-up Warsaw, Brian Satterfield of Class 4A semi-state finalist Hamilton Southeastern and Hollie Anson-Eaves of Class 2A state champion South Knox have been selected as honorees for the 2024-25 season through voting that occurred from late January through late February, IBCA executive director Marty Johnson said.

Honors are awarded according to IHSAA district boundaries, and one coach from each district is a recipient – Krebs in District 1; Satterfield in District 2; and Anson-Eaves in District 3. These three coaches will receive plaques as an IBCA District Coach of the Year during the 2025 IBCA Clinic, which is set for April 24-25 at Mt. Vernon High School in Fortville.

The Coach of the Year award is named for the late Bob King, the IBCA executive director from 1984-94. King, a Lebanon native, coached at Sacred Heart and Shortridge high schools in Indianapolis before serving as an assistant basketball coach at Purdue University. He later also was as an assistant athletic director and associate athletic director at Purdue.

A list of former IBCA/Bob King Coaches of the Year in girls' basketball is below. The 2025 IBCA/Bob King Coaches of the Year for boys' basketball will be announced later.

Here is information about the 2025 IBCA/Bob King girls' Coach of the Year honorees.

District 1: Lenny Krebs, Warsaw

Lenny Krebs is the IBCA District 1 Coach of the Year after guiding Warsaw to a 26-2 season and Class 4A state runner-up finish. Earlier, his Tigers won the Northern Lakes Conference, the Warsaw Sectional, the LaPorte Regional and the Frankfort Semi-State.

Krebs has compiled a 138-55 record in eight seasons at Warsaw, including NLC crowns in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. His overall record is 268-229 in 22 seasons as a head coach, including a 130-174 mark in 14 seasons at Goshen, another NLC school. He previously was the freshman boys’ coach at Fairfield in 1995-96, his alma mater. He then coached sixth-grade boys, freshman boys and JV girls at NorthWood from 1996-2003 before becoming girls’ head coach at Goshen.

Krebs has been named head coach of the 2025 girls' Junior All-Stars. He previously was honored as the NLC Coach of the Year in 2022, 2024 and 2025. He also was recognized as the Goshen News co-Coach of the Year in 2016 when at Goshen.

A 1991 graduate of Fairfield, Krebs averaged 15.6 points for a 12-10 team as a senior in basketball and also played baseball for the Falcons. He went to Illinois Valley Community College for two years, finishing third in the nation in free throw accuracy as a freshman and first in the nation as a sophomore when he was named third-team all-conference and won the team’s Most Inspirational Award. He then went to Grace College, where he was named a National Christian College Athletic Association second-team All-American as a senior in 1994-95.

Krebs completed his bachelor’s degree in elementary education at Grace in 1996. He earned a master’s degree in education from Indiana Wesleyan in 2006. He currently is in his eighth year as a teacher at Warsaw High School after previously teaching at Woodview Elementary in the NorthWood system and at Goshen Middle School and Goshen High School.

Krebs and his wife, Angela, are parents to Ashton, Kacilyn and Karson.

District 2: Brian Satterfield, Hamilton Southeastern

Brian Satterfield is the IBCA District 2 Coach of the Year after leading Hamilton Southeastern to a 27-1 campaign where his Royals were ranked No. 1 in Class 4A for much of the season and won Hoosier Crossroads Conference, Noblesville Sectional and Marion Regional titles.

Satterfield has compiled an 83-16 mark in four seasons as girls' coach at Hamilton Southeastern, including three HCC crowns (2023 co-championship and outright titles in 2024 and 2025). His girls' success comes after 20 seasons guiding the HSE boys, where he amassed a 322-151 record with three sectional titles and mentored Indiana Mr. Basketball honorees Gary Harris in 2012 and Zak Irvin in 2013.
The veteran coach previously was voted an IBCA boys' District Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2012, six times was honored as the Hoosier Crossroads Conference boys' Coach of the Year and twice has been selected HCC girls' Coach of the Year. He served the IBCA as a district representative from 2012-15 and currently is in the first year of a second three-year term.

Satterfield has been named an assistant coach for the 2025 girls' Indiana All-Stars, and he previously was an All-Star boys' assistant coach in 2015. He also was head coach for the 2010 Indiana Class All-Star Classic and the 2012 North-South Game as well as an assistant coach for the 2012 Nike Global Games in Washington, D.C.

A 1986 graduate of Plainfield High School, Satterfield averaged 8.9 points as a senior for a 20-6 regional champion. He went on to Wabash College, where he played three seasons for the Little Giants' varsity program and completed his bachelor's degree in business in 1990. After college, he worked for Met Life for three years before earning a teacher's certification through Indiana University in 1995. He then served as a boys' assistant coach at Madison, Triton Central, Avon and HSE before becoming the HSE boys' head coach in 2001-02.

Satterfield and his wife, Deb, are parents to Brooke, Nolan and Blair.

District 3: Hollie Anson-Eaves, South Knox

Hollie Anson-Eaves is the IBCA District 3 Coach of the Year after directing South Knox to a 28-2 record and the Class 2A state championship. Along the way, her Spartans also won the Corydon Central Invitational, the Blue Chip Conference, the North Knox Sectional, the Charlestown Regional and the Jasper Semi-State.

In 11 seasons, Anson-Eaves has a record of 177-110 with previous sectional titles in 2017 and 2019. She will be the head coach for the South Team in the 2025 Indiana All-Star girls’ Futures Game.

Anson-Eaves is a 2007 graduate of South Knox, where she was team MVP, team captain and honorable mention all-conference in basketball while also competing in softball. She went on to Brescia University in Kentucky, where she was a scorer, shooter and defensive stopper as a three-year captain and four-year player after redshirting in 2007-08.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and special education from Brescia in 2012 and now is in her 12th year as a director for Country Fun Daycare.

Anson-Eaves and her husband, Donnie, are parents to Sawyer and Ledger.
 
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