Coach Bob Koch has coached
for over 37 years at five different high schools. Perhaps the only
coach in Pennsylvania history to have coached at least one league champion
at each of those schools. During that tenure (322 wins), his teams
have been represented by a first team all league point guard for 22
consecutive seasons. Each of those point guards has been awarded a
full basketball scholarship at the Division I or Division II levels.
His personal accolades include 9 coach of
the year honors, 2 undefeated seasons, 9 league championships, 60 all
league players and 22 scholarship recipients. In 1995, he was runner
up Converse National High School Coach of the year and a coach in the 1995
Nike All-American game aired on ESPN2.
During his coaching tenure, he was the camp
director for Blue Star (10 years), and apprenticed under the tutelage of
Kathy Rush, Dean Smith, John Calipari, Bobby Knight, Rollie Massimino,
Theresa Grentz, and Jim Boeheim. He is the former director of USA
junior elite camps and has a private basketball tutoring business of 60
players.
He was selected twice to be
judge for the Big East All Tournament Team.
Finally, in 1997 and 2000 Coach Koch presented a clinic on point guard
play at the Women's Final Four.
Bill Michaels
will be entering his seventh year on staff at the point guard academy and
will be serving again as one of the on court directors. Michaels has over
ten years of coaching experience at both the high school and collegiate
levels. Currently Coach Michaels is the Head Coach at Williamson Trade
School where he has led his teams to the USCAA National Final Four in the
last six years. He has earned coach of the year honors twice in his
coaching career. While at Farrell High School Michaels was named the WPIAL
Coach of the Year and the Pittsburg Post Graduate Coach of the Year in 1998
and led his team to a District Championship.
Kate Corcoran has been with the academy for the
past eight years and will be serving as an on court director. Corcoran has
served as an assistant coach at the collegiate level with Ursinus College,
Cabrini College and most recently at Penn State Berks. Her playing career
was spent at DeSales University where she helped to lead the Bulldogs to
three conference championships, three NCAA D-III tournament appearances and
an ECAC championship. At DeSales Corcoran earned MAC First Team Honors in
1999 and 2000, was named the Lehigh Valley Small Colleges Player of the Year
in 2000 and was named Kodak Honorable Mention All-American in 2000.
Stephanie Cavalier has been with the academy
since its inception. She attended the academy for five years and is
currently in her fifth year as a coach. Cavalier played her high
school ball at The Episcopal Academy where she was a eleven time letter
winner playing soccer, basketball and softball. She was named to the
All-Main Line team twice in basketball. She continued her playing career at
Ursinus College where she help to lead the Bears to a Centennial Conference
Championship in 2007 and an appearance in the NCAA D-III Tournament. While
at Ursinus she was the epitome of a student athlete spending seven semesters
on the Deans List and earning Centennial Conference All-Academic Honors in
2007.
Megan Griffith is the newest member of the
staff coming back for her second season as a coach. Griffith spent her high
school career playing at Villa Maria Acadmey where she was named to the All
Catholic Academies League Team three time and served as a team captain
twice. After a standout high school career Griffith continued her education
and playing career at Columbia University. While at Columbia she was named
team captain three times and was named to the All-Ivy League team twice.
Griffith is currently continuing her playing career playing professionally
in Finland.
Samantha Edwards will be entering her seventh
year as a coach with the Koch Academy. Edwards has rejoined the coaching
ranks after a brief hiatus serving as an assistant coach at Parkland High
School. She has served the coaching ranks at both the collegiate and high
school levels with stints at Muhlenberg College, Kutztown University and
Holy Name High School. Edwards also enjoyed a standout playing career.
While attending Western Wayne High School Edwards was a 4 year letter winner
and still holds the school record for assists. She was named to the
conference all star team three times and was named the League Co-MVP. She
then attended Kutztown University where she was a two year member of the
basketball team and helped lead Kutztown to a league championship and named
an All-American Scholar Athlete.
Margaret Carey has been with the
Academy for three years. Carey has been in the collegiate coaching ranks
since her graduation from Mount Saint Mary’s University. She spent four
years at Richard Stockton College as an assistant coach before taking on her
first head coaching job at The Catholic University of America three years
ago. Carey was a four-year letterman in basketball and tennis in high
school. She was the basketball team MVP for three years at New Jersey's
Ocean City High School and her senior season at Penncrest High in Aston. Her
senior year, she was named all-Delaware County. That season, she averaged
12.5 points, six assists, and four steals per game.
Carey, a 2001 graduate of
Mount St. Mary's College, helped guide the Lady Ospreys to the 2004-2005 New
Jersey Athletic Conference title and a berth in the NCAA Division III
Tournament. In her freshman season at Mount St. Mary's, Carey made five
three-pointers in a 79-69 win over Quinnipiac University. At that time, her
five treys placed her third on the school's all-time record for most
three-pointers in a game.
