Congratulations to the 2021-22 “Bob King Award” winners as Boys' Coaches of the Year.
District 1
Travis Hannah, John Glenn
Travis Hannah is an IBCA District 1 Coach of the Year after directing John Glenn to a 24-2 season that included championships in the East Noble Holiday Tournament, the TCU Bi-County Tournament and the Northern Indiana Conference.
The Falcons’ 24 victories were a school record, and the team’s 17-0 start to the season resulted in the longest winning streak in program history. Hannah also was selected NIC Coach of the Year this season. He previously was an IBCA District 1 Coach of the Year in 2007, and he was an assistant coach for the Indiana Junior All-Stars that same season. He also was presented an IBCA/Point Guard College “Transformational Coach” Award in 2019.
Hannah is a 1992 graduate of Triton High School, where he played for coach Doug Snyder, and a 1996 graduate of Bethel College. In 23 seasons as a varsity coach, Hannah’s teams have a 281-240 record. At John Glenn, he is 188-151 in 15 seasons.
He began his coaching career as an assistant at Triton under Kevin O’Rourke while attending Bethel College. Hannah became a varsity coach in 1999 at age 24 at Brandywine High School in Niles, Mich. He spent three seasons at Brandywine (27-37), winning one district championship.
Hannah moved to Oregon-Davis in 2002, guiding the Bobcats for five seasons (66-52) with a tenure that included two sectional trophies, two regional titles, one semi-state crown and a 27-1 Class A state championship in 2006-07. There, he took over a program that had lost 42 consecutive games and led it to a state title in five years.
Hannah and his wife, Christin, have two children – Brycen, 17, a junior on the John Glenn basketball team, and Bryley, 14.
Marc Urban, Chesterton
Marc Urban is an IBCA District 1 boys’ Coach of the Year for the second time in three seasons after leading Chesterton to a 29-1 season that included a Class 4A state runner-up finish. The Trojans also claimed crowns in the Noblesville Holiday Tournament, Duneland Conference, Portage Sectional, Michigan City Regional and Lafayette Semi-State.
In six seasons at Chesterton, Urban’s teams have amassed a 124-31 record with a sectional title in 2019 as well as the sectional, regional and semi-state crowns in 2022. The 2019 sectional title was the program’s first in 32 seasons, and this season’s regional and semi-state trophies were the program’s first in 99 years in the IHSAA tournament.
Urban also has been named head coach for the 2022 Indiana Junior All-Stars, and he previously was an IBCA boys’ District 1 Coach of the Year in 2020.
A 2001 graduate of Lake Central, Urban played high school basketball and football. He matriculated to Indiana State University, where 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.
Urban then became head coach of the Lake Central girls’ program, guiding the team to an 80-17 record over four seasons that included sectional titles 2013 and 2015 was well as conference crowns in 2015 and 2016. Urban was voted an IBCA girls’ IBCA District 1 Coach of the Year in 2015. He also was the 2015 Times of Northwest Indiana girls’ Coach of the Year and the 2015 and 2016 Gary Post-Tribune girls’ Coach of the Year.
He returned to the boys’ game in 2016-17 at Chesterton, and he has directed the Trojans to records of 16-9, 21-4, 19-7, 23-3, 16-7 and 29-1 during his tenure. He also currently serves as an IBCA district representative.
Urban teaches physical education and credit-recovery classes at Chesterton.
He and his wife, Traci, have two daughters – Grace, 9, and Averie, 6.
District 2
Ben Rhoades, Mt. Vernon (Fortville)
Ben Rhoades is an IBCA District 2 Coach of the Year after guiding Mt. Vernon (Fortville) to a 22-3 season that included championships in the Hoosier Heritage Conference and the Greenfield-Central Sectional.
Rhoades is 61-34 in four seasons with the Marauders, whose program has captured both conference and sectional titles two years in a row. This is his first time as a head coach after working as an assistant the previous 17 seasons at Perry Meridian (nine years), Franklin Central (one year) and Ben Davis (seven years).
He took over at Mt. Vernon in 2018-19, and his teams went 11-12 in each of his first two seasons in Hancock County. The Marauders stepped forward with a 17-7 ledger, an HHC co-championship and sectional crown in 2020-21. They followed with the 22-3 mark this season, which included six- and 16-game winning streaks.
Rhoades has been chosen to be an assistant coach for the 2022 Indiana Junior All-Stars. He previously was named the 2021 HHC Coach of the Year and the 2021 Hancock County Coach of the Year by the Greenfield Daily Reporter.
A 1996 graduate of Hagerstown High School, Rhoades played basketball and baseball for four years each for the Tigers. He then attended Indiana University, earning his bachelor’s degree in 2001 while working coach Bob Knight’s IU Basketball Camp during summers as an undergraduate. He later earned a master’s degree from Indiana in 2005.
Rhoades began his coaching career in 2001 at Perry Meridian, working for coaches Mark Barnhizer, Bruce Kalb, Roger Fleetwood and Bill Zych in a nine-year stint with the Falcons. Rhoades moved to Franklin Central to work for Mark James in 2010-11, then went with James to Ben Davis for a seven-year run with the Giants that included the 2017 Class 4A state championship.
Now in his fourth season at Mt. Vernon, Rhoades expressed this philosophy when he was honored as Hancock County Coach of the Year last season.
“We’re trying to win all the games we can, but we’re also trying to do it the right way,” he said. “I genuinely feel like that if you care about each other and you try to do the right thing, you usually get rewarded in the end for that. It may not be winning every game, and you might not win every championship, but I feel like those are life-long lessons they’re going to have to have when they have their own families, jobs and businesses some day.”
Rhoades teaches health, physical education, and strength and conditioning at Mt. Vernon.
He and his wife, Cara, are parents to one daughter – Eva, 5.
Justin Ullom, Monroe Central
Justin Ullom is an IBCA District 2 Coach of the Year after leading Monroe Central to a 25-1 season that included championships of the Connersville Holiday Tournament, the Randolph County Tournament, the Mid-Eastern Conference and the Alexandria Sectional.
Ullom is 119-72 in eight seasons with the Golden Bears. During his tenure, his teams have won four Randolph County Tournaments, one MEC title and the school’s first sectional trophy since 2010.
A 1996 graduate of Delta High School, Ullom played basketball for the Eagles under coach Paul Keller. Ullom attended DePauw University and Indiana University for a time, but he departed college without a degree to start a business. He currently owns and operates a plumbing, HVAC and water-treatment business in the Muncie and Anderson areas.
He began his coaching career in 2010 at Delta under former coach Stan Daugherty. Ullom was the program’s freshman team coach for one season and served as the Eagles’ JV coach for three seasons. He then took over the top spot at Monroe Central, where his teams have gone 12-12, 11-14, 22-3, 11-11, 12-11, 13-11 and 13-9 prior to the current season.
Ullom and his wife, Sandy, have been married for 22 years. The couple has five sons – Jackson, 18, a current senior; Josiah, 16, a current junior; twins Justus and Jerimiah, 15 and current freshmen; and Julius, 13, a current eighth-grader.
District 3
Brent Dalrymple, North Daviess
Brent Dalrymple is an IBCA District 3 Coach of the Year after leading North Daviess to a 27-3 season that included a Class A state championship. Along the way, the Cougars also captured a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference co-championship as well as titles in the Loogootee Sectional, the Loogootee Regional and the Seymour Semi-State.
In 22 seasons as the Cougars’ varsity boys’ basketball coach, Dalrymple holds a 316-213 overall record. He arrived at North Daviess in 2000 to take over the basketball program and also assume the athletic director’s position.
Prior to the recently completed season, Dalrymple’s teams also captured Class A sectional crowns in 2001, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2016. Additionally, his 2009 and 2011 teams each claimed a regional title. The Cougars previously won SWIAC trophies in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2021.
Dalrymple recorded his 300th career coaching win on Dec. 30, 2021, in North Daviess’ Bobcat of Daviess County annual holiday tourney against Paoli, and this season’s 27 victory total is a school record for most victories in a season – five more than his 2010-11 squad. He also served as an assistant coach for the 2013 Indiana All-Stars.
Dalrymple attended Rushville High School, graduating in 1988 after playing both basketball and baseball for four years. He went on to Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Ind., earning a bachelor’s degree in business marketing in 1992. He later earned a master’s degree in educational administration from Ball State in 1995. Following college, he assisted John Heaton at Shelbyville High School for five seasons before accepting the job at North Daviess.
For the past 11 years, Dalrymple has also served as the school’s assistant principal while also managing his responsibilities as a coach and athletic director.
Dalrymple and his wife, Tina, are parents of three children – Madde, freshman at Indiana University; Meah, a ninth grader at North Daviess; and Hank, a fifth grader at North Daviess Elementary and the Cougars’ student manager.
Kirk Manns, Seymour
Kirk Manns is an IBCA District 3 Coach of the Year after guiding Seymour to a 15-7 ledger and a runner-up finish in the Hoosier Hills Conference, the Owls’ first winning season in 15 years.
Manns is 33-34 in three seasons as the Seymour coach and his sixth year at the school after moving to southern Indiana initially as only the Owls’ athletic director. He has been AD and coach the past three seasons, and he has a career high school varsity coaching record of 161-122.
A 1986 graduate of North Judson, Manns was a stellar athlete in high school. In basketball, he was the state’s leading scorer as a junior and senior with respective 33.0 and 34.2 averages. He was named first-team all-state both seasons, totaled 1,962 career points and was selected to the 1986 Indiana All-Stars. He also excelled as a quarterback in football, leading the Bluejays to a Class A state runner-up finish as a junior and being named first-team all-state as a junior and senior.
Manns went to Michigan State on a basketball scholarship, where he scored 1,212 points over four seasons and still holds school records for season 3-point accuracy (.507 as a sophomore) and career 3-point accuracy (.475, 212 of 446) while playing for Jud Heathcote. He averaged 15.3 points as a senior, earning second-team all-Big Ten honors and helping the Spartans to the a Big Ten title and the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. In 2014, he was ranked No. 37 on a list of the top 50 all-time MSU players chosen by the Lansing State Journal.
After college, Manns played professional basketball in Sweden for two years before he entered coaching. He first was a college assistant to Bob Donewald at Western Michigan from 1993-2000, helping the Broncos to a 100-103 record in seven seasons. His time in Kalamazoo was highlighted by a 21-8 campaign in 1997-98 that included a Mid-American Conference championship and a 75-72 victory over Clemson in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
He then became the athletic director and varsity boys’ basketball coach from 2001-11 at Fredericktown High School in Fredericktown, Ohio. His Freddies went 128-88 in 10 seasons, winning conference championships in 2007 and 2011 as well as sectional crowns in 2002, 2009 and 2011.
Manns served as athletic director at Madison High School in Mansfield, Ohio, from 2011-16, although he also assisted the basketball team at Fredericktown when his son, Kirk Jr., played there from 2014-16. He then moved to Seymour to become athletic director starting in 2016-17.
Manns and his wife, Lisa, have been married for 28 years. The couple has two adult children – Celia and Kirk Jr.
