Three Indiana high school boys’ 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 Wednesday (April 2).
Eli Henson of Class 2A state champion Manchester, Garrett Winegar of Class 4A state runner-up Fishers and Seve Beach of Class 2A sectional champion South Ripley have been selected as honorees for the 2024-25 season through voting that occurred from late January through late March, IBCA executive director Marty Johnson said.
Honors are awarded according to IHSAA district boundaries, and one coach from each district is a recipient – Henson in District 1; Winegar in District 2; and Beach 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 was a Lebanon native who 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 boys’ basketball is below. The 2025 IBCA/Bob King Coaches of the Year for girls’ basketball were announced on March 20.
Here is information about the 2025 IBCA/Bob King boys’ Coach of the Year honorees.
District 1: Eli Henson, Manchester
Eli Henson is the IBCA District 1 Coach of the Year after leading Manchester to a 26-2 campaign that included a Class 2A state championship with a 59-54 decision over University in the title game. Henson is 84-35 in five seasons with the Squires and has a career ledger of 193-139 in 14 seasons. That includes a 63-56 mark with one sectional title in five seasons at North White and a 46-48 slate in four seasons at Whitko.
This past season, Manchester also was co-champion of the Three Rivers Conference and captured the Wabash Sectional, the Logansport Regional and Michigan City Semi-State.
He also has been named an assistant coach for the 2025 Junior All-Stars.
Henson began his coaching career in 2007-09 as a volunteer assistant at North Miami while a student at Anderson University. He later was an assistant in 2010-11 at North White, then was named the Vikings’ head coach the next season. Henson stayed at North White for five years and won a sectional championship in 2014. He moved to Whitko starting in 2016-17 before accepting the Manchester position beginning in 2020-21.
Henson is a 2004 graduate of Elwood High School, where he played four years of basketball, averaged 20.9 points with a high game of 42 points and was voted first-team all-Central Indiana Conference as a senior. He totaled 1,131 points in his career and set an Elwood record with 166 career 3-pointers. He went on to Lees-McRae College in North Carolina on a basketball scholarship. After one season, he transferred to Anderson University as a student only, earning a bachelor’s degree in physical education in 2009. He later earned a master’s degree in special education from Ball State in 2014.
An avid golfer, Henson is in his fifth year as a physical education teacher at Manchester.
Henson and his wife, Stephanie, have two children – Hayden, 4, and Sadie, 3.
District 2: Garrett Winegar, Fishers
Garrett Winegar is the IBCA District 2 Coach of the Year after guiding Fishers to a 30-1 season and a Class 4A state runner-up finish. To reach the title game, the Tigers previously won the Hoosier Crossroads Conference, Carmel Sectional, Frankfort Regional and Elkhart Semi-State.
Winegar’s career record is 126-30 in six seasons, a total that includes a 108-24 ledger in five seasons at Fishers and an 18-6 mark in one season at Warren Central.
Winegar began his coaching career as a seventh-grade coach at Jackson Creek Middle School in Bloomington from 2013-15. He then assisted for one season at Bloomington South and three seasons at Warren Central, including assisting on the 2018 Class 4A state champs.
He was promoted to be the Warriors’ head coach in 2019-20, then moved to Fishers in 2020-21. With the Tigers, his teams have won four Hoosier Crossroads Conference titles (2021, 2022, 2024 2025), and he three times has been named HCC Coach of the Year (2022, 2024, 2025).
Winegar is a 2010 graduate of Rochester High School, where he played four seasons of basketball and was a part of the Zebras’ Class 3A state runner-up finish in 2009. He attended Indiana University, earning a bachelor’s degree in sports journalism in 2014. He completed a transition-to teaching-program in 2015. He currently is in his fifth year as a physical education teacher at Fishers.
Winegar and his wife, Sable, have three children – Guyten, 4; Griff, 3; and Ruckus, 1.
District 3: Seve Beach, South Ripley
Seve Beach is the IBCA District 3 Coach of the Year after directing South Ripley to a 23-2 season that included championships of the Ohio River Valley Conference and the Southwestern (Hanover) Sectional. He has a 47-25 record in three seasons with the Raiders and a career mark of 90-97 in eight seasons as a head coach.
He has been named head coach for the South Team in the 2025 Indiana All-Stars Futures Game. He also has been named 2025 ORVC Coach of the Year and 2025 HBCA District 3 co-Coach of the Year.
Beach started his coaching career in 2012-13 as a volunteer assistant at Shelbyville while he was completing his education at Franklin College. He was the Southwestern (Shelby) freshman coach in 2013-14 and the Greenfield-Central varsity assistant in 2014-15. He became a head coach at Centerville from 2015-20, guiding the Bulldogs to a Wayne County Tournament title in 2018.
He then was an assistant at South Dearborn in 2020-21 and an assistant at East Central in 2021-22 before moving to South Ripley as head coach starting in 2022-23.
A 2008 graduate of Forest Park, Beach was a two-year starter and two-time all-conference selection for teams that went 20-2 as a junior and 14-7 as a senior. He averaged 9.3 points, was named Evansville Courier & Press second-team all-Southwestern Indiana and was chosen to the 2008 HBCA East-West All-Star Classic as a senior.
He went to Purdue-Fort Wayne out of high school and played basketball for two seasons with the Mastodons. He transferred to Franklin College, playing basketball for two seasons with the Grizzlies and earning a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education in 2013.
Beach is in his third year teaching health and physical education at South Ripley.
He and his wife, Elaina, have two children – Henry, 4, and Owen, 3.
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IBCA/BOB KING AWARD — BOYS’ COACH OF THE YEAR WINNERS
The Indiana Basketball Coaches Association has presented Coach of the Year Awards since 1972. These awards are named for Bob King, a former executive director of the organization who also spent years on the Purdue University men’s basketball coaching staff and later served as an assistant athletic director at Purdue. He played and then coached basketball and football for 13 years at Indianapolis Shortridge and is a graduate of Butler University. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1986. Honorees were selected one per district in five districts from 1972 through 2003, two per district in three districts from 2004-2022, and one per district in three districts starting in 2023. The boys’ awards started in the 1972-73 season. The girls’ awards started in the 1983-84 season.
1971-72: (1) Bob Donewald, South Bend St. Joseph; (2) Harlan Frick, Leo; (3) Jon Yoho, Plainfield; (4) Phil Buck, Anderson Madison Heights; (5) Charles Valier, Mt. Vernon (Posey).
1972-73: (1) Steve Yoder, Plymouth; (2) Bob Dille, Fort Wayne Northrop; (3) Richard Theill, Southport; (4) Stan Weber, Southwestern (Hanover); (5) Bob Lochmueller, Tell City.
1973-74: (1) Marvin Wood, Mishawaka; (2) Marvin Tudor, Huntington North; (3) Howard Sharpe, Terre Haute North; (4) Phil Snodgrass, Union County; (5) George Marshall, Jeffersonville.
1974-75: (1) Doug Adams, Michigan City Elston; (2) Jim Miller, Penn; (3) Sam Alford, Martinsville; (4) Pat Rady, Winchester; (5) Guy Glover, Bloomfield.
1975-76: (1) Tom Linger, Lake Central; (2) By Hey, Fort Wayne North; (3) Jim Rosenstihl, Lebanon; (4) Bob Fuller, Anderson Highland; (5) Jim Jones, Princeton.
1976-77: (1) Mike Copper, Munster; (2) Gary Miller, Bellmont; (3) John Milholland, Frankfort; (4) Bill Slayback, Aurora; (5) George Marshall, Jeffersonville.
1977-78: (1) Jim Vermillion, Merrillville; (2) By Hey, Fort Wayne North; (3) Jack Keefer, Lawrence North; (4) Garth Cone, Alexandria; (5) Bill Springer, Bloomington South.
1978-79: (1) Bill Hahn, Michigan City Rogers; (2) Dave Hadaway, South Bend Adams; (3) Gayle Towles, Ben Davis; (4) Sam Alford, New Castle; (5) John Wessel, Evansville Central.
1979-80: (1) Gene Miiller, Kankakee Valley; (2) Bill Patrick, Whitko; (3) Ed Siegel, Pike; (4) Bob Fuller, Anderson Highland; (5) Jack Butcher, Loogootee.
1980-81: (1) Phil Weybright, Argos; (2) Tom Sittler, Manchester; (3) Dave Nicholson, Noblesville, and James “Jake” Thompson, Indianapolis Howe; (4) Phil Buck, Anderson Madison Heights; (5) Orlando “Gunner” Wyman, Vincennes Lincoln.
1981-82: (1) Jack Edison, Plymouth; (2) Neal McKeeman, Homestead; (3) Al Tucker, Cloverdale; (4) Butch Stafford, Anderson Highland; (5) Joe Mullen, Evansville Bosse.
1982-83: (1) Fred Mitchell, Chesterton; (2) Tom Dubois, Southwood; (3) Fred Belser, Indianapolis Manual; (4) Basil Mawbey, Connersville; (5) Stan Neal, Washington.
1983-84: (1) Skip Collins, Valparaiso; (2) Al Rhodes, Warsaw; (3) Dave Nicholson, Noblesville; (4) Calvin Bayley, Frankton; (5) Dave Worland, Washington Catholic.
1984-85: (1) Skip Collins, Valparaiso; (2) Kent Lochmueller, Carroll (Fort Wayne); (3) John Milholland, Frankfort; (4) Jimmie Howell, Mt. Vernon (Fortville); (5) Jim Jones, Princeton.
1985-86: (1) Joe Otis, LaPorte; (2) Al Rhodes, Warsaw; (3) Dave Nicholson, Noblesville; (4) John Robbins, Muncie South; (5) Jerrill VanDeventer, Boonville.
1986-87: (1) Steve Bennett, Lafayette Central Catholic; (2) Bill Green, Marion; (3) Bob Heady, Carmel; (4) Steve Brunes, East Central; (5) Dan Bush, Bedford North Lawrence.
1987-88: (1) Dan Warkentien, Oregon-Davis; (2) Creighton Burns, Mississinewa; (3) Bob Knapp, Rossville; (4) George Griffith, Richmond; (5) Steve Brett, Bloomfield.
1988-89: (1) Skip Collins, Valparaiso; (2) Dan Gunn, Marion; (3) Pat Rady, Terre Haute South; (4) Dave Porter, South Decatur; (5) Jack Butcher, Loogootee.
1989-90: (1) Denny Foster, Hebron; (2) Jim Hahn, Concord; (3) Frank Craig, Indianapolis Tech; (4) Ron Baldwin, Yorktown; (5) Gene Miiller, Vincennes Lincoln.
1990-91: (1) Ron Heflin, Gary Roosevelt; (2) Pete Smith, Manchester; (3) Bryan Hughes, Fountain Central; (4) Bill Hahn, Muncie South; (5) Dan Bush, Bedford North Lawrence.
1991-92: (1) Bob Punter, Valparaiso; (2) Al Rhodes, Warsaw; (3) Steve Brunes, Brownsburg; (4) Alan Darner, Anderson Highland; (5) Jim Miller, New Albany.
1992-93: (1) John Todd, East Chicago Central; (2) Marty Johnson, East Noble; (3) Steve Witty, Ben Davis; (4) George Griffith, Richmond; (5) Dave Clark, White River Valley.
1993-94: (1) Bob Punter, Valparaiso; (2) Dick Butt, Leo; (3) Phil Waddell, Tipton; (4) Mike Drews, Muncie Central; (5) Jim Miller, New Albany.
1994-95: (1) Jim East, Merrillville; (2) Moe Smedley, Manchester; (3) Joe Pearson, Indianapolis Washington; (4) Sam Alford, New Castle; (5) Brian Wahl, Pike Central.
1995-96: (1) Bob Buscher, Andrean; (2) Basil Mawbey, Kokomo; (3) Mark James, Franklin Central; (4) Garth Cone, Alexandria; (5) Mark Matthews, Bedford North Lawrence.
1996-97: (1) Joe Otis, LaPorte; (2) Marty Johnson, East Noble; (3) Dave McCollough, Noblesville; (4) Mel Seifert, Batesville; (5) Tom McKinney, Bloomington North.
1997-98: (1) Jack Edison, Plymouth; (2) Mike Sorrell, Goshen; (3) Alan Darner, Pike; (4) Paul Keller, Delta; (5) Dave Reese, Perry Central.
1998-99: (1) Jack Gabor, Kankakee Valley; (2) Tim Reinking, Fort Wayne Concordia; (3) Larry Nicks, Indianapolis Arlington; (4) Chip Mehaffey, Winchester; (5) J.R. Holmes, Bloomington South.
1999-2000: (1) Clint Swan, Andrean; (2) Moe Smedley, Marion; (3) Scott Heady, Warren Central; (4) Jerry Bomholt, Southwestern (Hanover); (5) Tom Beach, Forest Park.
2000-01: (1) Basil Mawbey, Lewis Cass; (2) Cliff Hawkins, DeKalb; (3) Steve Witty, Ben Davis; (4) Steve Bennett, New Castle; (5) Jerry O’Brian, Gibson Southern.
2001-02: (1) Pat Skaggs, Benton Central; (2) Wayne Barker, Bluffton; (3) Steve Witty, Ben Davis; (4) Chip Mehaffey, Winchester; (5) Jim Shannon, New Albany.
2002-03: (1) Mike Hackett, Munster; (2) Chris Benedict, Columbia City; (3) Brian Satterfield, Hamilton Southeastern; (4) Joe Bradburn, Yorktown; (5) Will Wyman, Evansville Harrison.
2003-04: (1) Chris Benedict, Columbia City; (1) Dean Foster, Penn. (2) Andy Weaver, Western; (2) Joe Luce, Benton Central. (3) Dave Benter, Brownstown Central; (3) Marty Echelbarger, Heritage Hills.
2004-05: (1) Robb Berger, Mishawaka; (1) Randy DeShone, Jimtown. (2) Joe Buck, Pendleton Heights; (2) Larry Nicks, Indianapolis Arlington. (3) Steve Combs, Vincennes Lincoln; (3) Dave Omer, Washington.
2005-06: (1) Jack Edison, Plymouth; (1) Steve Johnson, Elkhart Memorial. (2) Jack Keefer, Lawrence North; (2) David Wood, West Lafayette. (3) Jeff Hein, Evansville Bosse; (3) Harry Larrabee, Shelbyville.
2006-07: (1) Travis Hannah, Oregon-Davis; (1) Bob Punter, Valparaiso. (2) David McCollough, Noblesville; (2) Mark James, Franklin Central. (3) Tom Bradley, Orleans; (3) Jay Brown, Edgewood.
2007-08: (1) Jason Groves, Triton; (1) Tom Peller, Chesterton. (2) Travis Daugherty, Tipton; (2) Mark Galloway, Carmel. (3) J.R. Holmes, Bloomington South; (3) Jim Shannon, New Albany.
2008-09: (1) Jason Ridge, Northridge; (1) Marty Beasley, Carroll (Fort Wayne). (2) Shaun Busick, Zionsville; (2) Craig Teagle, Jay County. (3) Tom Weeks, Princeton; (3) Mike Saylor, Terre Haute South.
2009-10: (1) Chris Johnson, Homestead; (1) Eric Thompson, Peru. (2) Brian Barber, Danville; (2) Steve Lynch, Mt. Vernon (Fortville). (3) Dave Benter, Brownstown Central; (3) Matt Wadsworth, North Posey.
2010-11: (1) Mike Hackett, Munster; (1) Mark Johnson, South Bend Riley. (2) Brian Hahn, Pendleton Heights; (2) Brian McCauley, Kokomo. (3) Nate Hawkins, Forest Park; (3) Andy Igel, Eastern Greene.
2011-12: (1) Al Gooden, New Haven; (1) Chris Johnson, Homestead. (2) Scott Heady, Carmel; (2) Brian Satterfield, Hamilton Southeastern. (3) Bryan Hughes, Barr-Reeve; (3) Stacy Meyer, Greensburg.
2012-13: (1) Ryan Bales, Plymouth; (1) Mike Hackett, Munster. (2) Brad Dickey, Tipton; (2) Steve Lynch, Mt.Vernon (Fortville). (3) Brent Chitty, Columbus East; (3) Bryan Speer, Evansville Harrison.
2013-14: (1) Al Rhodes, Penn; (1) Aaron Wolfe, NorthWood. (2) Kent Chezem, Covington; (2) Brent Keck, Perry Meridian. (3) Bryan Hughes, Barr-Reeve; (3) Jamie Kolkmeier, Corydon Central.
2014-15: (1) Marty Beasley, Carroll (Fort Wayne); (1) Mike McBride, Churubusco. (2) Brent Brobston, Frankton (2); Rick Peckinpaugh, McCutcheon. (3) Michael Adams, Evansville Reitz; (3) Brandon Hoffman, Silver Creek.
2015-16: (1) T.J. Lux, Merrillville; (1) Doug Ogle, Warsaw. (2) Jimmie Howell, Lapel; (2) David McCollough, Shenandoah. (3) Matt Britton, Bloomfield (3); Jim Shannon, New Albany.
2016-17: (1) Barak Coolman, Valparaiso; (1) Clint Swan, Crown Point, (2) Criss Beyers, Warren Central; (2) Kevin Renbarger, Oak Hill. (3) Kerry Brown, Connersville; (3) Todd Sturgeon, Floyd Central.
2017-18: (1) Michael Edison, LaVille; (1) Rob Yoder, Westview. (2) Daniel Cox, New Castle; (2) Matt English, Beech Grove. (3) Scott McClelland, Morristown; (3) Todd Sturgeon, Floyd Central.
2018-19: (1) Ryan Eakins, East Noble; (1) Craig Teagle, Huntington North. (2) Mark Detweiler, Delta; (2) Ryan Osborn, Carmel. (3) Brandon Hoffman, Silver Creek; (3) J.R. Holmes, Bloomington South.
2019-20: (1) Marc Davidson, Fort Wayne Blackhawk Christian; (1) Marc Urban, Chesterton. (2) Al Gooden, Lawrence Central; (2) David McCollough, Shenandoah. (3) Nate Hawkins, Heritage Hills; (3) Kendall Wildey, South Decatur.
2020-21: (1) Chris Johnson, Homestead; (1) Chad Johnston, South Bend Adams. (2) Ryan Osborn, Carmel; (2) Andy Weaver, Plainfield. (3) Jeff Moore, Sullivan; (3) Josh Thompson, Barr-Reeve.
2021-22: (1) Travis Hannah, John Glenn; (1) Marc Urban, Chesterton. (2) Ben Rhoades, Mt. Vernon (Fortville); (2) Justin Ullom, Monroe Central. (3) Brent Dalrymple, North Daviess; (3) Kirk Manns, Seymour.
2022-23: (1) Aaron Wolfe, NorthWood; (2) Don Carlisle, Ben Davis; (3) J.B. Neill, Bloomfield.
2023-24: (1) Clint Swan, Crown Point; (2) Matt Luce, Wapahani; (3) Dave Benter, Brownstown Central.
2024-25: (1) Eli Henson, Manchester; (2) Garrett Winegar, Fishers; (3) Seve Beach, South Ripley.
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