Tech (182-57) and Smyrna High School. A 1969 graduate of Wesley and member of the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame, Kobasa was named Delaware Coach of the Year by the Delaware Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association in 1979 and 2004. Kobasa’s athletic resume is impressive. After a star-studded football and baseball career at Wesley, he served as offensive back and quarterback coach at both Wesley and Delaware State University before accepting basketball and football coaching positions at Smyrna High School. Coach Kobasa has been associated with prominent national coaches such as Bob Huggins (West Virginia University), Mike Brey (University of Notre Dame), Frank Martin (South Carolina), and Greg Jackson (Delaware State University). In 1995, he became the head bas-
Year 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Totals
Overall 16-12 11-15 14-12 18-10 19-9 18-11 12-14 20-8 128-83
ketball coach at Sussex Tech. In 2004, Coach Kobasa was named the State Coach of the Year for the second time. He has earned Henlopen Conference Coach of the Year honors three times and has been selected as the coach of a team in the Blue-Gold High School AllStar Game three times. At Sussex Tech, he has won four Henlopen Conference Northern Division crowns and four Henlopen Conference Championships. He guided the Ravens to the state tournament every year and earned two final four finishes. His teams ranked in the top 10 in the state final basketball rankings in eight of his ten seasons. Inducted into the Wesley College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001, Kobasa is also a former member of the Wesley Alumni Association Board of Directors. In addition to chairing the Board of Directors of DIAA, he has been a member
of the Board of the Blue/Gold All-Star Basketball game for seven years, is the former chair of the Henlopen Conference Boys Basketball Committee, and is a member of the State Girls’ High School Basketball Tournament Committee. Kobasa was reappointed to the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association by the Governor of Delaware as a public member in June of 2007, and is chairman of the association for the 2007-2008 year. He is a former long-time member of the Delaware Secondary Schools Athletic Association Board of Directors (the organization that preceded DIAA), the Milford Boys and Girls Club Board, and is a former President of the Henlopen Conference and the Henlopen Basketball Coaches Association. He is also a former President of the Delaware Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association.
Coach Kobasa Year-by-Year Record Conf. Honors 13-5 PAC Finalists; ECAC South Tournament 9-9 PAC Tournament 9-7 CAC Quarterfinals 12-4 NCAA Tournament; CAC Champions 11-5 NCAA Tournament 12-4 CAC Runner up; ECAC Semifinals 10-6 CAC First Round 9-3 NCAA Tournament; CAC Runner up 85-43 3 NCAA Tournaments, 1 CAC Championship
2009 CAPITAL ATHLETIC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS
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