Executive director Steve Witty and associate executive director Marty Johnson represented the IBCA at the National High School Basketball Coaches Association (NHSBCA) conference in July 2011 to share ideas and help the association continue to organize.
This organization was developed as a result of a meeting held in Indianapolis in 2004. Besides Indiana, representatives from Texas, Ohio, New York, Michigan and Wisconsin were in attendance at that meeting.
Currently the NHSBCA is comprised of organizations from 28 states. Seventeen of those states were represented at the 2011 meeting, and the continued sharing of ideas has resulted in the organization developing a constitution and electing officers.
The NHSBCA officers are as follows: president Dave Archer, New York, president-elect, Greg Grantham, North Carolina; vice president/treasurer, Steve Witty, Indiana; communications director, Rick Czeslawski, Illinois; past president, Tom Hersey, Michigan.
The mission of the organization is to unite high school basketball coaches across the country, to promote the game and/or empower the high school coaching profession. Every high school coach who joins his/her state’s High School Coaches Association automatically becomes a member of the National High School Basketball Coaches’ Association.
The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) officially recognizes the NHSBCA organization, allows us a representative on its congress and has reduced NABC membership fees from $70.00 to $29.50 for all high school coaches who are members of their state association.
States represented at the 2011 meeting were: Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin. Other states that are a part of the organization are Alabama, Arizona, California (southern), Florida, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Vermont.
As more states become involved with the NHSBCA, we hope to gain even a louder voice with the NCAA, NABC, the National Federation of State High School Associations and others for the betterment of high school basketball.
Go to www.NHSBCA.org to learn more about the organization and other benefits available to high school coaches.
