Satterfield among three girls coaches honored by IBCA for 2024-25 season

The REPORTER

Hamilton Southeastern girls basketball coach Brian Satterfield is among the three Indiana high school girls basketball coaches have been chosen as 2025 Bob King Coaches of the Year by their peers in the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association, it was announced Thursday.

Lenny Krebs of Class 4A state runner-up Warsaw and Hollie Anson-Eaves of Class 2A state champion South Knox have also been selected as honorees for the 2024-25 season through voting that occurred from late January through late February, IBCA executive director Marty Johnson said.

Honors are awarded according to IHSAA district boundaries, and one coach from each district is a recipient – Krebs in District 1; Satterfield in District 2; and Anson-Eaves 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 and 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, a Lebanon native, coached at Sacred Heart and Shortridge high schools in Indianapolis before serving as an assistant basketball coach at Purdue University. He later also was an assistant athletic director and associate athletic director at Purdue.

A list of former IBCA/Bob King Coaches of the Year in girls’ basketball is below. The 2025 IBCA/Bob King Coaches of the Year for boys’ basketball will be announced later.

Satterfield was named the IBCA District 2 Coach of the Year after leading Hamilton Southeastern to a 27-1 campaign where his Royals were ranked No. 1 in Class 4A for much of the season and won Hoosier Crossroads Conference, Noblesville Sectional and Marion Regional titles.

Satterfield has compiled an 83-16 mark in four seasons as girls’ coach at Hamilton Southeastern, including three HCC crowns (2023 co-championship and outright titles in 2024 and 2025). His girls’ success comes after 20 seasons guiding the HSE boys, where he amassed a 322-151 record with three sectional titles and mentored Indiana Mr. Basketball honorees Gary Harris in 2012 and Zak Irvin in 2013.

The veteran coach previously was voted an IBCA boys’ District Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2012, six times was honored as the Hoosier Crossroads Conference boys’ Coach of the Year and twice has been selected HCC girls’ Coach of the Year. He served the IBCA as a district representative from 2012-15 and currently is in the first year of a second three-year term.

Satterfield has been named an assistant coach for the 2025 girls’ Indiana All-Stars, and he previously was an All-Star boys’ assistant coach in 2015. He also was head coach for the 2010 Indiana Class All-Star Classic and the 2012 North-South Game as well as an assistant coach for the 2012 Nike Global Games in Washington, D.C.

A 1986 graduate of Plainfield High School, Satterfield averaged 8.9 points as a senior for a 20-6 regional champion. He went on to Wabash College, where he played three seasons for the Little Giants’ varsity program and completed his bachelor’s degree in business in 1990. After college, he worked for Met Life for three years before earning a teacher’s certification through Indiana University in 1995. He then served as a boys’ assistant coach at Madison, Triton Central, Avon and HSE before becoming the HSE boys’ head coach in 2001-02.

Satterfield and his wife, Deb, are parents to Brooke, Nolan and Blair.