Fishers’s own Garrett Winegar named Bob King Coach of the Year
The REPORTER
Fishers boys basketball coach Garrett Winegar is one of three Indiana high school 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.
Eli Henson of Class 2A state champion Manchester 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.
Winegar guided 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 has been named HCC Coach of the Year three times (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.
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.