Roger Gaeckler - Girls Basketball

*PLAYING EXPERIENCE*

HIGH SCHOOL:

• 1959 Graduate of Susquehannock High School, York County, Pa.
• Twice Selected to Pennsylvania ALL YORK COUNTY ALL STARS in Football, Basketball, Baseball
• Set basketball school records in rebounding and scoring that held for 25 years
• Pennsylvania BIG 33 alternate selection in Football (1959)
• Only four-year starter in Susquehannock’s football, basketball, and baseball history

COLLEGIATE: (Graduated with BS in Mathematics and BA in physical education

• Attended Gettysburg College on a University Division football/basketball athletic scholarship (Temple, LaSalle, St. Josephs, Navy, Lafayette, Lehigh, Delaware, Penn State, George Washington, etc.

POST COLLEGIATE: (Earned MA Education Degree)

• Central Pennsylvania Professional Basketball League: (1964 – 1968)
• Selected member of the U.S. International All-Star Basketball team
• Owner of LONG ISLAND SURF PROFESSIONAL TEAM (Found Anthony Mason)

**COACHING EXPERIENCE**

• Two years Men’s Varsity Basketball Coach at Susquehannock High School
• Four Years Assistant Varsity Coach at University of Baltimore
• Four Years Men’s Varsity Basketball Coach at Lebanon Valley College
• Five Years Men’s Varsity Basketball Coach at Hofstra University
• 15 Years coaching AAU Women’s Basketball

**COACHING HONORS**

• Lebanon Valley Basketball Hall of Fame Induction in 2000
• Hofstra University Basketball Hall of Fame Induction in 2015
• Led The Hofstra Men’s Basketball Program to its first-ever Division 1 NCAA berth

**COACHING PHILOSOPHY**

• Lead By Example
• Coach skills, Teach knowledge, Instill Values
• Learn from mistakes, Look forward, not back, Failure is NOT learning from your mistakes
• Focus on what you can control
• Coach to the talent and maturity level of your players

***HOLY TRINITY EXPERIENCE***

• 2018 – 2019 Young Team Won the NY STATE Catholic Class B Championship
• 2019 – 2020 Finished 15 – 8 with primarily 9^th and 10th-grade team

FINAL THOUGHT

I strongly encourage young men and women to attend Holy Trinity High School because the administrators, teachers, coaches, and students are exemplary in every dimension essential to the future success of its graduates.