IU's Miller is the headline speaker for the 2018 IBCA Clinic
Gearlds, Hinson, Rosene and 11 high school coaches also will speak April 20-21 at Lawrence North
Indiana University’s Archie Miller and a two-time national champion on Friday night, a number of high school coaches, a round-table of retired coaches and an Issues & Answers Forum highlight the agenda for the 2018 Indiana Basketball Coaches Association Spring Clinic.
Miller, who recently completed his first season with the Hoosiers, is the headliner on Friday night’s agenda. He is joined that evening by Southern Illinois men’s coach Barry Hinson and Marian University women’s coach Katie Gearlds, who has twice guided the Knights to NAIA national titles. T.J. Rosene, coach at Emmanuel College in Georgia and also a member of the Point Guard College staff, is the keynote speaker on Saturday.
Sessions begin at noon Friday, April 20 and run through 9:10 p.m. at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis. Sessions resume at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 21 and conclude at 12:30 p.m.
Cost to attend the clinic is $50 for current-year IBCA members and $100 for non-members.
In addition to the headliners, 10 of the 12 IBCA Coaches of the Year will offer their secrets to success.
Boys coaches scheduled to speak are Daniel Cox of New Castle, Matt English of Beech Grove, Scott McClelland of Morristown and Todd Sturgeon of Floyd Central. Girls coaches on the itinerary include Jack Campbell of Chesterton, Brodie Garber of Fairfield, Debbie Guckenberger of Brownsburg, Bob Meier of Castle, Stacy Mitchell of Warren Central and Jason Simpson of Greensburg. Information on these coaches as 2018 IBCA Coaches of the Year was announced last week.
In addition, Brownsburg boys coach Steve Lynch (85-40 in five seasons at Brownsburg, 188-92 overall in 12 seasons, including seven at Mt. Vernon-Fortville) will speak. Lynch, who played at Manchester University, was a men’s college assistant at Manchester, Missouri State and Ball State prior to becoming varsity coach at Mt Vernon. Lynch twice was voted an IBCA District 2 boys Coach of the Year (in 2010 and 2013) while with the Marauders.
The round-table of retired coaches tips off the clinic agenda and Steve Brett, Mike Griffin and Dan Gunn will be on a panel moderated by Indiana SportsTalk host Bob Lovell. The three coaches will discuss steps that they took to make their programs successful for the long run.
Brett won 467 games in 37 seasons as a head coach at Bloomfield, Seymour, Loogootee and Shakamak; he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame last month. Griffin won 303 games in 19 seasons as girls' coach at Brownsburg and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016. Gunn posted a 514-318 record in 37 seasons as a head coach at NorthWood, Harrison (West Lafayette), Penn, Marion and Edwardsburg (Mich.). Questions from those in attendance will be encouraged.
Information on the featured speakers is below, followed by the full itinerary for the clinic.
Featured Speakers
Archie Miller, Indiana University
Archie Miller recently completed his first season at Indiana University, guiding the Hoosiers to a 16-15 overall record and a 9-9 mark in Big Ten Conference games.
Miller, widely regarded as one of the top young coaches in the nation, was hired as the IU coach on March 25, 2017. He is known as a tireless recruiter, an excellent developer of talent and a gifted tactician whose teams play strong defense with an efficient offense. He has a seven-year record of 155-78.
Miller, 39, a native of Beaver Falls, Pa., moved to Bloomington after six seasons as head coach at the University of Dayton. While at UD, he guided the Flyers to a 139-63 record, including a 68-31 mark in Atlantic 10 Conference games, and his teams won two regular-season A-10 titles. Dayton also reached the NCAA Tournament in the last four seasons of his tenure, including an Elite Eight appearance in 2014.
Miller was named an NABC District and A-10 Coach of the Year in 2017, and he was a finalist for the 2015 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award.
Miller comes from a family of coaches. His father, John, coached both Archie and his brother Sean at Blackhawk High School in Beaver Falls before retiring in 2005 with 657 victories in 35 seasons. Sean is the current head coach at the University of Arizona after formerly being head coach at Xavier University.
Archie and Sean are the first brothers to coach different teams to the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight in the same season (2014), the first to coach their respective teams to three consecutive NCAA Tournaments and the first to be named conference coaches of the year in the same season (Archie at Dayton, Sean at Arizona in 2017). Archie, Sean and their father were inducted into the Beaver County (Pa.) Sports Hall of Fame in April 2015.
Miller was a four-year letterman as a player at North Carolina State from 1998-2002. He currently is third on the Wolfpack chart for career free throw accuracy (.846), sixth in career 3-point accuracy (.429) and fourth in career 3-pointers made (218).
During 11 seasons as an assistant coach, Miller coached in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Pac-12 and Big Ten. He has worked for Herb Sendek at NC State, Darrin Horn at Western Kentucky, Sendek again at Arizona State, Thad Matta at Ohio State and his brother Sean at Arizona.
Miller earned his bachelor’s degree from NC State in 2002.
He and his wife, Morgan, have one daughter – Leah, 12.
Katie Gearlds, Marian University
Katie Gearlds recently completed her fifth season at Marian University in Indianapolis, directing the Knights to a 32-3 record that included a 17-1 mark in the Crossroads League and advancing to the second round of the NAIA National Tournament.
Gearlds, 33, already has two national championships as a coach after leading Marian to NAIA crowns in 2016 and 2017. Her five-year record is 143-34 overall and 72-18 in CL games with four NAIA national tournament appearances and three regular-season league championships.
Gearlds twice has been named NAIA National Coach of the Year and came to Marian with extensive experience as a player. She was voted Indiana Miss Basketball in 2003 after carrying Beech Grove High School to the Indiana Class 3A state championship as a player. She scored 2,521 points in high school, and she was named a Nike/WBCA All-American in 2003.
She went to Purdue, where she excelled for four seasons. She stands fourth on the Boilermakers’ all-time scoring list with 1,974 points and tied a school record for single-season points with 707 as a senior. She helped Purdue win three Big Ten Conference regular-season titles, two Big Ten Tournament crowns and make four NCAA Tournament appearances, including an Elite Eight berth in 2007. Gearlds was an all-Big Ten selection in her final three seasons as a Boilermaker after earning Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors in 2003-04. She also was chosen a third-team All-American by the Associated Press in 2007.
After college, Gearlds was drafted seventh in the first round by the WNBA’s Seattle Storm in April 2007. Gearlds played in 87 games over three seasons for the Storm (2007-09), and she also played professionally in Europe for teams in Slovakia (2007), Greece (2008-10), Spain (2011-12) and Portugal (2013).
Gearlds graduated from Purdue in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology.
Gearlds, Hinson, Rosene and 11 high school coaches also will speak April 20-21 at Lawrence North
Indiana University’s Archie Miller and a two-time national champion on Friday night, a number of high school coaches, a round-table of retired coaches and an Issues & Answers Forum highlight the agenda for the 2018 Indiana Basketball Coaches Association Spring Clinic.
Miller, who recently completed his first season with the Hoosiers, is the headliner on Friday night’s agenda. He is joined that evening by Southern Illinois men’s coach Barry Hinson and Marian University women’s coach Katie Gearlds, who has twice guided the Knights to NAIA national titles. T.J. Rosene, coach at Emmanuel College in Georgia and also a member of the Point Guard College staff, is the keynote speaker on Saturday.
Sessions begin at noon Friday, April 20 and run through 9:10 p.m. at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis. Sessions resume at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 21 and conclude at 12:30 p.m.
Cost to attend the clinic is $50 for current-year IBCA members and $100 for non-members.
In addition to the headliners, 10 of the 12 IBCA Coaches of the Year will offer their secrets to success.
Boys coaches scheduled to speak are Daniel Cox of New Castle, Matt English of Beech Grove, Scott McClelland of Morristown and Todd Sturgeon of Floyd Central. Girls coaches on the itinerary include Jack Campbell of Chesterton, Brodie Garber of Fairfield, Debbie Guckenberger of Brownsburg, Bob Meier of Castle, Stacy Mitchell of Warren Central and Jason Simpson of Greensburg. Information on these coaches as 2018 IBCA Coaches of the Year was announced last week.
In addition, Brownsburg boys coach Steve Lynch (85-40 in five seasons at Brownsburg, 188-92 overall in 12 seasons, including seven at Mt. Vernon-Fortville) will speak. Lynch, who played at Manchester University, was a men’s college assistant at Manchester, Missouri State and Ball State prior to becoming varsity coach at Mt Vernon. Lynch twice was voted an IBCA District 2 boys Coach of the Year (in 2010 and 2013) while with the Marauders.
The round-table of retired coaches tips off the clinic agenda and Steve Brett, Mike Griffin and Dan Gunn will be on a panel moderated by Indiana SportsTalk host Bob Lovell. The three coaches will discuss steps that they took to make their programs successful for the long run.
Brett won 467 games in 37 seasons as a head coach at Bloomfield, Seymour, Loogootee and Shakamak; he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame last month. Griffin won 303 games in 19 seasons as girls' coach at Brownsburg and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016. Gunn posted a 514-318 record in 37 seasons as a head coach at NorthWood, Harrison (West Lafayette), Penn, Marion and Edwardsburg (Mich.). Questions from those in attendance will be encouraged.
Information on the featured speakers is below, followed by the full itinerary for the clinic.
Featured Speakers
Archie Miller, Indiana University
Archie Miller recently completed his first season at Indiana University, guiding the Hoosiers to a 16-15 overall record and a 9-9 mark in Big Ten Conference games.
Miller, widely regarded as one of the top young coaches in the nation, was hired as the IU coach on March 25, 2017. He is known as a tireless recruiter, an excellent developer of talent and a gifted tactician whose teams play strong defense with an efficient offense. He has a seven-year record of 155-78.
Miller, 39, a native of Beaver Falls, Pa., moved to Bloomington after six seasons as head coach at the University of Dayton. While at UD, he guided the Flyers to a 139-63 record, including a 68-31 mark in Atlantic 10 Conference games, and his teams won two regular-season A-10 titles. Dayton also reached the NCAA Tournament in the last four seasons of his tenure, including an Elite Eight appearance in 2014.
Miller was named an NABC District and A-10 Coach of the Year in 2017, and he was a finalist for the 2015 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award.
Miller comes from a family of coaches. His father, John, coached both Archie and his brother Sean at Blackhawk High School in Beaver Falls before retiring in 2005 with 657 victories in 35 seasons. Sean is the current head coach at the University of Arizona after formerly being head coach at Xavier University.
Archie and Sean are the first brothers to coach different teams to the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight in the same season (2014), the first to coach their respective teams to three consecutive NCAA Tournaments and the first to be named conference coaches of the year in the same season (Archie at Dayton, Sean at Arizona in 2017). Archie, Sean and their father were inducted into the Beaver County (Pa.) Sports Hall of Fame in April 2015.
Miller was a four-year letterman as a player at North Carolina State from 1998-2002. He currently is third on the Wolfpack chart for career free throw accuracy (.846), sixth in career 3-point accuracy (.429) and fourth in career 3-pointers made (218).
During 11 seasons as an assistant coach, Miller coached in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Pac-12 and Big Ten. He has worked for Herb Sendek at NC State, Darrin Horn at Western Kentucky, Sendek again at Arizona State, Thad Matta at Ohio State and his brother Sean at Arizona.
Miller earned his bachelor’s degree from NC State in 2002.
He and his wife, Morgan, have one daughter – Leah, 12.
Katie Gearlds, Marian University
Katie Gearlds recently completed her fifth season at Marian University in Indianapolis, directing the Knights to a 32-3 record that included a 17-1 mark in the Crossroads League and advancing to the second round of the NAIA National Tournament.
Gearlds, 33, already has two national championships as a coach after leading Marian to NAIA crowns in 2016 and 2017. Her five-year record is 143-34 overall and 72-18 in CL games with four NAIA national tournament appearances and three regular-season league championships.
Gearlds twice has been named NAIA National Coach of the Year and came to Marian with extensive experience as a player. She was voted Indiana Miss Basketball in 2003 after carrying Beech Grove High School to the Indiana Class 3A state championship as a player. She scored 2,521 points in high school, and she was named a Nike/WBCA All-American in 2003.
She went to Purdue, where she excelled for four seasons. She stands fourth on the Boilermakers’ all-time scoring list with 1,974 points and tied a school record for single-season points with 707 as a senior. She helped Purdue win three Big Ten Conference regular-season titles, two Big Ten Tournament crowns and make four NCAA Tournament appearances, including an Elite Eight berth in 2007. Gearlds was an all-Big Ten selection in her final three seasons as a Boilermaker after earning Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors in 2003-04. She also was chosen a third-team All-American by the Associated Press in 2007.
After college, Gearlds was drafted seventh in the first round by the WNBA’s Seattle Storm in April 2007. Gearlds played in 87 games over three seasons for the Storm (2007-09), and she also played professionally in Europe for teams in Slovakia (2007), Greece (2008-10), Spain (2011-12) and Portugal (2013).
Gearlds graduated from Purdue in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology.
