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DAVE CALDWELL, SPRING-FORD BOYS BASKETBALL DYNASTY
DAVE CALDWELL, SPRING-FORD BOYS BASKETBALL DYNASTY
The Rams captured three Pioneer Athletic Conference (PAC-10) championships under Caldwell during the 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2003-04 seasons.
Under Caldwell, an Owen J. Roberts High School and University of Delaware graduate, the Rams set a school record for victories with 23 during the 2003-04 campaign. The Rams had the best start in school history at 8-0 druing the 1998-99 season. The longest winning streak of 13 games came during the 2003-04 season. The best season record in school history of 23-3 came during the 2003-04 campaign.
Caldwell coached the Rams for 16 seasons since the Spring-Ford Area School District jointure began in 1955-56. His overall record was 253-132 for a winning percentage of 66. His 16-year tenure was the longest in school history, beating the 14 seasons Rich Simon served from 1974-83, 1985 and back again from 1987-89.
Spring-Ford made nine consecutive PAC-10 Final Four playoff appearances from 1998-2005 and had 10 overall berths.
The Rams went 8-14 in District 1 postseason play under Caldwell. They currently compete in the highest classification in terms of enrollment in Class AAAA.
Previous coaches at Spring-Ford included Robert Handwerk (four years), LeRoy Hallman (four), Gerry Steger (three), Jack Haines (two), Dave Rooney (one), Dick Powell (two), Tony Misero (two), Paul Jones (one), and Bill McLemoyle (one). The current head coach is Mike Young, a former Caldwell assistant coach who is in his third season of directing the Rams.
The school struggled in boys basketball in the old Ches-Mont League while competing against the likes of powerful Coatesville, West Chester Henderson and Downingtown.
Handwerk is the only other Spring-Ford boys basketball coach to have a winning record. His mark of 50-39 (56 percent) came during the first four years of the jointure that merged the former Spring City and Royersford High Schools into the Spring-Ford Area School District that also includes Limerick, Upper Providence, Mont Clare and Oaks.
Under Caldwell’s tutelage, Spring-Ford produced 16 collegiate cagers, predominantly during the last 10 years at the post.
The career scoring leader at Spring-Ford of more than 1,0000 points is guard Mike Brock (Alvernia), who broke the previous standard held by guard/forward Mike Siuchta (Widener). Siuchta currently teaches at Spring-Ford High School and is also an assistant girls basketball coach at Perkiomen Valley High School. Brock helped lead Alvernia to a conference championship.
Brock and Siuchta both played on college teams that appeared in the Division III playoffs.
Guard/forward Ryan Kraft, another 1,000-point scorer, is currently playing at Shippensburg University. Teammate Tom Murphy, a forward who finished just shy of 1,000 points, is playing at Albright College.
Guard Matt Diehl played on two championship teams at Spring-Ford. He went on to play one year at Mansfield University before transferring to Kutztown University. Center Josh Wurtz played at Delaware Valley College and then York College. Guard Matt Kurtz played at West Chester University. Guard Chris Talley played at Alvernia College with Brock.
Other former Caldwell players who are currently seeing collegate basketball action are Julius Lopez and Jeff DeSantis at Immaculata and Eric Burnett at Ursinus.
“We had a tremendous number of Division II and Division III college players,” Caldwell said. “We had a lot of terrific players and it is nice to see them playing at the next level. We were real fortunate to have a lot of good players.”
Caldwell is a health and physical education teacher at Spring-Ford Area Middle School after previously serving as athletic director at Spring-Ford Area High School prior to current athletic director McDaniel. McDaniel also serves as an assistant girls basketball coach under head coach Jeff Rinehimer.
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Barry Sankey
The Rams captured three Pioneer Athletic Conference (PAC-10) championships under Caldwell during the 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2003-04 seasons.
Under Caldwell, an Owen J. Roberts High School and University of Delaware graduate, the Rams set a school record for victories with 23 during the 2003-04 campaign. The Rams had the best start in school history at 8-0 druing the 1998-99 season. The longest winning streak of 13 games came during the 2003-04 season. The best season record in school history of 23-3 came during the 2003-04 campaign.
Caldwell coached the Rams for 16 seasons since the Spring-Ford Area School District jointure began in 1955-56. His overall record was 253-132 for a winning percentage of 66. His 16-year tenure was the longest in school history, beating the 14 seasons Rich Simon served from 1974-83, 1985 and back again from 1987-89.
Spring-Ford made nine consecutive PAC-10 Final Four playoff appearances from 1998-2005 and had 10 overall berths.
The Rams went 8-14 in District 1 postseason play under Caldwell. They currently compete in the highest classification in terms of enrollment in Class AAAA.
Previous coaches at Spring-Ford included Robert Handwerk (four years), LeRoy Hallman (four), Gerry Steger (three), Jack Haines (two), Dave Rooney (one), Dick Powell (two), Tony Misero (two), Paul Jones (one), and Bill McLemoyle (one). The current head coach is Mike Young, a former Caldwell assistant coach who is in his third season of directing the Rams.
The school struggled in boys basketball in the old Ches-Mont League while competing against the likes of powerful Coatesville, West Chester Henderson and Downingtown.
Handwerk is the only other Spring-Ford boys basketball coach to have a winning record. His mark of 50-39 (56 percent) came during the first four years of the jointure that merged the former Spring City and Royersford High Schools into the Spring-Ford Area School District that also includes Limerick, Upper Providence, Mont Clare and Oaks.
Under Caldwell’s tutelage, Spring-Ford produced 16 collegiate cagers, predominantly during the last 10 years at the post.
The career scoring leader at Spring-Ford of more than 1,0000 points is guard Mike Brock (Alvernia), who broke the previous standard held by guard/forward Mike Siuchta (Widener). Siuchta currently teaches at Spring-Ford High School and is also an assistant girls basketball coach at Perkiomen Valley High School. Brock helped lead Alvernia to a conference championship.
Brock and Siuchta both played on college teams that appeared in the Division III playoffs.
Guard/forward Ryan Kraft, another 1,000-point scorer, is currently playing at Shippensburg University. Teammate Tom Murphy, a forward who finished just shy of 1,000 points, is playing at Albright College.
Guard Matt Diehl played on two championship teams at Spring-Ford. He went on to play one year at Mansfield University before transferring to Kutztown University. Center Josh Wurtz played at Delaware Valley College and then York College. Guard Matt Kurtz played at West Chester University. Guard Chris Talley played at Alvernia College with Brock.
Other former Caldwell players who are currently seeing collegate basketball action are Julius Lopez and Jeff DeSantis at Immaculata and Eric Burnett at Ursinus.
“We had a tremendous number of Division II and Division III college players,” Caldwell said. “We had a lot of terrific players and it is nice to see them playing at the next level. We were real fortunate to have a lot of good players.”
Caldwell is a health and physical education teacher at Spring-Ford Area Middle School after previously serving as athletic director at Spring-Ford Area High School prior to current athletic director McDaniel. McDaniel also serves as an assistant girls basketball coach under head coach Jeff Rinehimer.
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Barry Sankey
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