Leader of Warsaw Girls hoops Krebs wins District 1 Coach of the Year
Indiana Basketball Coaches Association WARSAW, Ind. -- On Thursday, the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association announced a Bob King Coach of the Year recipient for each of the three Indiana High School Athletic Association districts with Warsaw's own Lenny Krebs bringing home the award for the Northern District.
Voting for the award was done by the coaches' peers around the state with voting taking place from late January through late February, IBCA executive director Marty Johnson said.
Krebs of Class 4A state runner-up Warsaw won District 1, Brian Satterfield of Class 4A semi-state finalist Hamilton Southeastern won District 2, and Hollie Anson-Eaves of Class 2A state champion South Knox was crowned Coach of the Year in District 3.
Krebs and his fellow winners 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.
From the IBCA:
Lenny Krebs is the IBCA District 1 Coach of the Year after guiding Warsaw to a 26-2 season and Class 4A state runner-up finish. Earlier, his Tigers won the Northern Lakes Conference, the Warsaw Sectional, the LaPorte Regional and the Frankfort Semi-State.
Krebs has compiled a 138-55 record in eight seasons at Warsaw, including NLC crowns in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. His overall record is 268-229 in 22 seasons as a head coach, including a 130-174 mark in 14 seasons at Goshen, another NLC school. He previously was the freshman boys’ coach at Fairfield in 1995-96, his alma mater. He then coached sixth-grade boys, freshman boys and JV girls at NorthWood from 1996-2003 before becoming girls’ head coach at Goshen.
Krebs has been named head coach of the 2025 girls' Junior All-Stars. He previously was honored as the NLC Coach of the Year in 2022, 2024 and 2025. He also was recognized as the Goshen News co-Coach of the Year in 2016 when at Goshen.
A 1991 graduate of Fairfield, Krebs averaged 15.6 points for a 12-10 team as a senior in basketball and also played baseball for the Falcons.
He went to Illinois Valley Community College for two years, finishing third in the nation in free throw accuracy as a freshman and first in the nation as a sophomore when he was named third-team all-conference and won the team’s Most Inspirational Award. He then went to Grace College, where he was named a National Christian College Athletic Association second-team All-American as a senior in 1994-95.
Krebs completed his bachelor’s degree in elementary education at Grace in 1996. He earned a master’s degree in education from Indiana Wesleyan in 2006. He currently is in his eighth year as a teacher at Warsaw High School after previously teaching at Woodview Elementary in the NorthWood system and at Goshen Middle School and Goshen High School.
Krebs and his wife, Angela, are parents to Ashton, Kacilyn and Karson.
About the award:
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 as an assistant athletic director and associate athletic director at Purdue.
