Northview is the best school in Northwest Ohio! Our academic offerings are exceptional and the extra-curricular opportunities are second to none. Thank you for visiting the boys’ basketball table and for your interest in our program. In this packet, you will find some information about our program. We hope to see you at some games this year. Our varsity schedule is below:

Points of Pride

• Three year varsity record: 53-20 (.727 win %).

• 30-12 NLL (.715 win %), league title in 2015-2016.

• Three year varsity tournament record: 4-3, two district appearances.

• Three consecutive years the team has set the single season 3pt record at NV.

• Three year PROGRAM record: 151-63 (.706 win %)!!!!!!!!!!!

2017-2018 Team Achievements

• 3.7 TEAM G.P.A. 13 Varsity Players on the Honor Roll (GPA above 3.0)!

• 11-0 start to the season - Best in school history!

• 20-4 Record (school record for wins), 8-0 non-league, 10-1 at home, 9-2 on the road and 1-1 in the tournament

• Defeated 15 of 16 opponents faced!

• Got as high as #12 in state poll voting!

• Finished #4 in The Blade poll!

• 65.5 Points Per Game…..Opponents: 51.3 - Average margin of victory of +14.2.

• Broke 8 team records and 8 individual records.

• Program record: 50-16 (32-10 NLL): JV went 16-6 (10-4) and Freshmen 14-6 (11-3).

School Record Wins: 20 Previous record -19 (2000-2001)

School Record Points: 1572 Previous record -1461 (2015-2016)

School Record Field Goals Made: 579 Previous record -555 (1987-1988)

School Record 3pt Made in a game: 13 @ Napoleon Previous record -12 vs SV (1991)

School Record 3pt Made (season): 177 Previous: 136 (tie: 2015-16 and 2016-17)

School Record Defensive Rebounds: 582 Previous record - 541 (2015-2016)

School Record Rebounds (season): 860 Previous record-781 (1979-1980)

2017-2018 Individual Achievements

Alek West (Junior year)

1st Team AP All-District

School record 313 assists

All-Blade Special Mention 

School  record 179 offensive rebounds

NLL Co-Player of the Year

Season record 80 offensive rebounds

1st Team All-NLL

#2 assists/season -140 (162 is the record)

1st Team District 7

#2 steals/season -53 (54 is the record)

3rd Team All-State

#4 steals/career - 108 (124 is the record)

#4 rebounds/season - 204 (254 record)

#6 rebounds/career - 426 (534 is the record)

#7 Def. rebounds/season - 121 (176 record)

#9 Def. rebounds/career - 247 (372 record)

#11 points/career with 678 (1164 record)

Colton Snow

2nd Team All-NLL

School record 144 blocks

HM AP All-District

School record 176 defensive rebounds

HM District 7

Single season record 65 blocks

Single season record 176 def. rebounds

#4 Off. rebounds/career - 160 (179 record)

#2 Off. rebounds/season - 76 (80 record)

#2 Def. rebounds/career - 350 (372 record)

Sam Clear (Junior year)

2nd Team All-NLL

Single season record 67 made 3-pointers

HM AP All-District

#2 3pt Made/career - 118 made (record 119)

HM District 7

#2 3pt Made/game - 7 vs. Bryan (record 9)

Reece Lazar

3rd Team All-NLL

#5 3pt Made/game - 6 v. Bedford (record 9)

HM District 7

All Academic-District 7

Colin McIntyre - All Academic-District 7

Joey Okeke - All Academic-District 7

Dylan Bush - All Academic-District 7

Team Awards:

Most Valuable Player - Alek West     14.7 PPG 8.4 RPG 5.8 APG 2.2 SPG

Defensive Player of the Year - Colton Snow 13.2 PPG 10.6 RPG 65 Blocks .58 FG%

Outstanding Offensive Player - Sam Clear    13.5 PPG 5.5 RPG 2.4 APG 67 made 3pt

Coach’s Award - Reece Lazar      7.5 PPG .40 3pt% 2.8 RPG

Head Coach: Jeremy McDonald, 4th Season

• 15 years of coaching experience at Waite, Central, Southview and Northview

• Master of Education in Educational Administration from BGSU (undergrad @ UT)

• Physical Education Teacher at Stranahan for ten years (12 years in Sylvania Schools)

• Wife, Mellisa is the Principal at Arbor Hills. Son, Mason (3) is a preschooler at Northview.

Thoughts on my Coaching Philosophy

Program Foundations:

1. POSITIVITY must be intentional and consistent. We don’t want to dwell on the negative and we must thrive to boost confidence.

2. No profanity by coaches or players.

3. “We before me” attitude for all members of our program.

4. Success lies in simplicity. Confusion lies in sophistication. Keep it simple!

5. Everything - practices, games, team activities - must be structured and organization. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of PREPARATION.

Defensively:

1. Predominantly MAN-TO-MAN defense, taught whole-part-whole.

2. We must build habituation in how we guard! Habits are what we fall back on in pressure situations.

3. We will work very hard on what our opponents run and how to guard it.

4. We want to rebound the ball with two hands and then RUN.

Offensively:

1. Every year, we will emphasize playing INSIDE-out. Some years that will mean we throw the ball in the post a lot, others we will drive it more. We will always emphasize “penetrating cuts” in our offense.

2. We run a MOTION offense with several “quick hitter” plays that flow into our offense.

3. MAJOR emphasis on shot selection. We want A’s and B’s (see our shot rubric).

4. We want to play fast/up-tempo but not in a hurry.

Assistant Coaches

Evan Bauer, 4th season Associate Coach and Head Junior Varsity Coach

Denny Shoemaker, 3rd season Varsity Assistant and Assistant Athletic Director

Colin Dietrich, 2nd season Head Freshmen Coach

Desiree Eidson, 1st season Assistant Coach

Off-season Training

We believe our off-season program is the best in Northwest Ohio and is the chief reason for our program’s success. Our kids have more opportunities to get in their school’s gym than anyone in the area. We believe in simplicity - keeping things simple, but getting a lot of repetition. Because of our off-season program, we see major growth and development in the majority of our players.

In the spring, we typically have 15-20 returning players and the incoming 8th graders in our workouts. In the summer, we average 40+ players attending per day. In the fall, we typically have 30-35 guys participating.

Here is a look at what we do:

Spring

• After the season, we are required by the OHSAA to take 28 days off. We start day #29!

  • 3 days of weight training per week

  • 4 days of basketball: 3 open gyms and 1 individual workout per week (we lift on 3 of the 4 days.

Summer

• 5 days per week in June and July.

  • 3 of the 5 days we lift weights

  • All 5 days we have open gyms that are leveled. We invite 2-3 college players, Northview alum and other adults to play with our top (oldest) guys. Our younger guys, for the most part, play in leveled groups.

  • Summer league - once a week (in June) on a weekday night, we play 2 games.

  • 3-4 “Shootouts” (one days tournaments) in the month of June.

  • Backyard Basketball Blind-Draw Tournament - held in Coach McDonald’s backyard.

  • By OHSAA rule, we must take the month of August off.

Fall

• 4-5 days per week in September and October

  • 3 days of weight training

  • All 4/5  days we have basketball activities: mix of Individual workouts and open gyms

2018-2019 Season Outlook

• We return seven letter winners:

  • Seniors: Alek West, Sam Clear, Luke Pawlak, Billy Biggs, Nick Leggett, Jake Matuszewski

  • Junior: Grant Hartnett

  • Senior Jayden Bolden will miss the season as he recovers from a football injury. He will remain a part of our program!

• Three starters return from last year’s team that won a school record 20 games: West, Pawlak and Clear.

Thank you again for your interest in our program.