Club Basketball
Est. 2004
Coach
Steve Baumgartner
sbaumgartner@hcc-nd.edu
Seems like it was just meant to be.
Holy Cross College senior Steve Baumgartner grew up with siblings who were athletes, so he was an athlete.
“Just played since I was young,” he says.
He also grew up with a dad who liked to lead athletes, so Baumgartner leads athletes too.
“My dad has always coached sports since I can remember,” he adds.
So when the HCC basketball team had an opening for a coach, Baumgartner was ready for the challenge. It probably wouldn’t surprise you to know that his brother has grown into a coaching position as well. Baumgartner says helping his brother coach 7th graders is a little different from his usual job of coaching his peers.
“It’s hard,” he sighs. “Because you know you’re going to see those kids the next day at school when you coach your peers. So you have to put friendships and coach-player relationships in two different bins.”
Any advice from Dad?
“On coaching I usually just do my own thing, but he’s told me a couple things I’ve used.” Baumgartner says coaching peers is prickly, and coaching basketball is tense.
“You think you should score every time down the court, so you put the guys out there that you think are going to score,” he says. “Every time down the court you don’t score, you try to think of what that went wrong so that you can score next time.”
Baumgartner has to think of offensive tactics at the same time he’s thinking of educational strategies. He says he goes to class, does his homework, goes to practice from 9-12 and then comes back to whatever he hasn’t finished. And as the coach, he has a responsibility. No excuses.
“I’m the guy that has to be at every practice,” he says. “Every free minute I have got to be doing something.”
So why choose to keep a schedule like this? It’s not really a choice.
“It’s pretty much in the genes,” he says. No kidding.
More Information?
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Nathan Walker
Athletic Director
Office: Vincent 157
Phone: (574) 239-8335
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