Congratulations to the 2014-15 Bob King Award winners as Girls' Coaches of the Year.
Rod Parker
District 1 - Homestead
Rod Parker has been the varsity girls’ basketball coach at Homestead High School for 14 seasons, compiling a 216-107 record in that span. That includes a 26-3 record in 2014-15 and a Class 4A state runner-up finish.
During his tenure, the Spartans have won three sectionals (2011, 2014 and 2015), one regional (2015) and one semistate (2015). Parker’s teams also have won Northeast Hoosier Conference championships in 2011, 2014 and 2015. Over the past six seasons, Homestead has a 129-21 record.
Parker previously was an IBCA District 1 Coach of the Year in 2013, and he has been named the Indiana Junior All-Star head coach for 2015.
A 1993 graduate of IPFW, Parker’s teams are noted for their up-tempo style that has allowed the Spartans to be among the state’s highest-scoring teams. Homestead led the state in scoring with an average of 76.24 points in 2014-15 and has been in the top five in scoring the past four seasons. The Spartans also were second in the state in scoring margin in 2014-15 at “plus 29.10.”
Prior to taking over the girls’ program, Parker was an assistant in the boys’ program at Homestead for six years. A 1989 graduate of Fort Wayne Snider, Parker played basketball and baseball in high school as well as baseball in college. He is a sixth-grade science teacher and also holds a master’s degrees in elementary education and school administration.
Parker has been married for 21 years. He and his wife, Melissa, have three children: Madisen (16), Rylie (12) and Ryan (7).
Marc Urban
District 1 - Lake Central
Marc Urban recently completed his third season as varsity girls’ basketball coach at Lake Central, where his Indians went 22-4 while winning the Duneland Conference championship at 7-0 and capturing the Class 4A Sectional 1 title.
In three seasons, Urban’s teams have amassed a 57-15 record with two sectional crowns (2013 and 2015).
Urban is a 2001 graduate of Lake Central, where he played basketball and football. He matriculated to Indiana State. At ISU, he served as a men’s basketball manager for Royce Waltman and graduated in 2006.
Upon graduation, Urban returned to Lake Central, working as a boys’ basketball assistant coach for six years for Dave Milausnic, helping the boys to conference and sectional titles in 2012. The coach then moved to the Lake Central girls’ program, guiding the team to 16-8 and 19-3 records in his first two seasons.
Urban and his wife, Traci, have one daughter, Grace (2), and are expecting another daughter in June.
Donna Keck
District 2 - Noblesville
Donna Keck has completed seven seasons as varsity girls’ basketball coach at Noblesville and is 93-59 with the Lady Millers. In 14 seasons as a head coach, including stops at Fort Wayne South and Greenfield-Central, she has a 189-133 record.
This season, her team went 23-4, won the program’s first sectional since 1996 and captured the championship of the Hoosier Crossroads Conference with a 6-0 record.
The former Donna McCarty is a 1993 graduate of Clinton Central, where she played for Hall of Fame coach Linda Barnett and helped the Bulldogs to a sectional crown as a senior. She attended Taylor University, where she played basketball for two seasons.
Keck started her coaching career at South Adams as an assistant coach for three seasons before becoming the head coach at Fort Wayne South for one season (with a 10-11 record) and Greenfield-Central for seven (86-63 record). She directed the Cougars to a sectional crown in 2004, the program’s only sectional crown since the start of class basketball in 1997-98.
Keck was named a Junior All-Star assistant coach in 2014, but she was unable to take part in those games because of a death in her family.
Tod Windlan
District 2 - Carmel
Tod Windlan led Carmel to a 17-8 season in his first year with the Greyhounds.
Windlan has an 11-year varsity coaching record of 151-103. His career includes four seasons at Frankton (58-34), two seasons at Anderson Highland (15-28), one season at Delta (9-11), two seasons at Hamilton Heights (44-8) and one season at Warren Central (7-14) before taking over at Carmel.
Windlan’s coaching career began at Elwood, where he served as boys’ basketball JV coach from 1990-95. He then was a girls’ basketball assistant at Anderson Highland from 2000-02 and later was a girls basketball assistant for one season at Yorktown between his head coaching stops at Anderson Highland and Delta.
A 1984 graduate of Frankton, Windlan attended Purdue where he was a four-year member of the Boilermakers’ golf program and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1989 in health, physical education and safety.
Windlan was chosen an IBCA District 2 Coach of the Year in the 2012-13 season when he guided Hamilton Heights to a 23-3 record that included a Class 3A state runner-up finish. He also twice has been chosen Hamilton County Coach of the Year by the Hamilton County Sports Daily and served as an assistant coach for the 2013 Indiana Junior All-Stars.
Windlan and his wife, Stacey, have three children: Kennedy (20), Sydney (18) and Karsten (14).
Mark Holt
District 3 - Barr-Reeve
Mark Holt directed the Barr-Reeve girls to a 28-1 record and a Class A state runner-up finish in 2014-15 en route to being recognized as an IBCA District 3 Coach of the Year.
This season’s win total set the school record for most wins. It also included a Blue Chip Conference championship and as well as sectional, regional and semistate titles. Holt’s teams have averaged 20 wins per season over the last eight years. His overall record with the Lady Vikings is 196-77 in 12 seasons with three sectional titles, one regional crown and one semistate banner.
Holt previously was chosen an IBCA District 3 Coach of the Year in 2012. He also has been recognized on multiple occasions with coaching honors from the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association and the Hoosier Basketball Coaches Association.
In a premier honor, Holt has been selected to be head coach of the 2015 Indiana All-Stars. He also has been named a coach for the West team in the 2015 HBCA All-Star Classic.
In his 32 years of teaching mathematics and coaching, all at Barr-Reeve, Holt spent 20 years in the Barr-Reeve boys’ basketball program – working for well-respected mentors Bryan Hughes, Dave Omer and Joe Todrank – before taking over the Lady Vikings.
Holt is a 1979 graduate of Shoals High School and a 1983 graduate of Ball State University. He received his master’s degree from Indiana University in 1987 in mathematics education. He currently is the mathematics department chair at Barr-Reeve and was awarded a “Golden Apple” from WTHI-TV for teaching excellence in 1993.
Holt’s wife, Teri, teaches in the social studies department at Barr-Reeve. The couple has two daughters – Kellianne, a 2009 graduate of Butler, and Stephanie, a 2011 graduate of the University of Evansville.
Kevin Moore
District 3 - East Central
Kevin Moore recently completed his sixth season as varsity girls’ basketball coach at East Central High School, compiling a 21-4 record and winning the championship of the Eastern Indiana Athletic Conference.
In his tenure, the Trojans have compiled an 88-41 record with EIAC titles in 2012, 2013 and 2015. His record includes an 80-29 mark over the past five years after going 8-12 in his first season when he took over a program that had not had a winning season since 1998. East Central has won the Harrison (Ohio) Holiday Tournament the past three seasons.
Moore, the EIAC Coach of the Year in 2012, 2013 and 2015, served as a coach in the Indiana Elite All-Star Classic in Lebanon in 2012 and 2013. He also coached the East team in the HBCA All-Star Classic in 2014 and has worked at the IBCA Top 100 Showcase in 2013 and 2014. He has been named an Indiana Junior All-Star assistant coach for 2015.
Moore began his coaching career in 2004 as a boys’ basketball assistant coach at Franklin County, one year as the freshman head coach and one year as the JV head coach. He then moved to the East Central girls’ program, serving one year as freshman coach and two years as JV coach before being promoted to varsity coach in 2009.
Moore is a 1998 graduate of Franklin County High School where he participated in basketball for three seasons. He attended Ball State and graduated in 2004. He later earned a master’s degree in instructional leadership from Northern Kentucky University.
Moore worked as a math teacher for nine years before becoming an assistant principal for 2014-15 at Sunman-Dearborn Middle School.
