COBLESKILL’S MCCARTHY TO SPEAK AT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL COACHES CLINIC

SUNY Cobleskill Head Men’s Basketball Coach Kevin McCarthy has been selected to speak at the 2007 National Association of College Basketball Coaches (NABC) Clinic to be held in conjunction with the NCAA Final Four in Atlanta, GA Thursday March 29th thru Tuesday April 3rd. McCarthy will be part of a line-up of speakers including: University of Virginia Head Coach Dave Leitao, Butler University Head Coach Todd Lickliter, University of Connecticut Head Coach Jim Calhoun and University of West Virginia Head Coach John Beilein. The Fighting Tiger Head Coach becomes the first junior college coach to ever present at the event.

The Cobleskill coach will present as part of the association’s Coaching Development Clinic which is part of the organization’s new coaching certification program. McCarthy will speak on Monday April 2nd at 8:30 AM at the Atlanta Hilton Hotel’s Grand Salon A. His topic will be, “SUNY Cobleskill Basketball: Offensive Continuity and Special Sets”.

Coach McCarthy returned to the bench this season after a year’s coaching sabbatical to lead Cobleskill to a 21-8 overall mark and a return to the NJCAA Region III Division III Tournament earning Mountain Valley Conference Coach-of-the-Year honors for the fourth time previously having been honored by the league in 1995, 1996 and 1998. Under his direction the program has posted a 313-111 career record at Cobleskill giving him a 73.8% winning percentage
Under his direction the Fighting Tigers have won three Mountain Valley Conference Western Division titles and two overall Mountain Valley Conference Championships. Cobleskill has made fourteen NJCAA Division III Region III Play-off appearances highlighted by Region III Championships in 1998 and 2005. The program advanced to NJCAA Division III Final Four in 1998 and the NJCAA Elite Eight in 2005 under his direction. All twelve of the college’s twenty-win seasons have come under his direction including a SUNY System record of eleven consecutive twenty-win seasons from 1994 thru 2005.

In 2004 the Fighting Tiger mentor was honored by the NABC with the organization’s Guardian of the Game Award for Education becoming the first junior college coach ever honored with a Guardian Award. Also in 2004 the Fighting Tiger mentor was honored by the National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors as the Northeastern District recipient of the General Sports TURF Systems Athletic Director-of-the-Year Award.

For further information interested parties can contact the NABC through their National Headquarters in Kansas City, MO at (816) 878-6222.