{"id":44777,"date":"2019-03-26T11:07:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=44777"},"modified":"2019-03-26T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T16:12:31","slug":"hobson-named-wbca-central-region-coach-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=44777","title":{"rendered":"Hobson named WBCA Central Region Coach of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATLANTA – The Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced Monday (Mar. 25) the eight 2019 United States Marine Corps\/WBCA NCAA Division II Region Coaches of the Year, along with the United States Marine Corps\/WBCA NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year. Tony Hobson<\/a> of Fort Hays State is the WBCA Central Region Coach of the Year for the 2018-19 season. All eight Region Coaches of the Year were finalists for National Coach of the Year, which goes to Molly Miller of Drury University this year.

The WBCA Region Coaches of the Year are as follows:


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\n NAME<\/strong>\n <\/td>\n SCHOOL<\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Jonathon\n Barbaree\n <\/td>\n Anderson\n University (Southeast Region)\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Betsy\n Harris\n <\/td>\n Florida\n Southern College (South Region)\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Jackie\n Hartzell\n <\/td>\n University\n of the Sciences in Philadelphia (East Region)\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Tony\n Hobson<\/a><\/strong>\n <\/td>\n Fort\n Hays State University (Central Region)<\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Shelley\n Jarrard\n <\/td>\n Westminster\n College (South Central Region)\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Molly\n Miller\n <\/td>\n Drury\n University (Midwest Region) – National Coach of the Year\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Kenny\n Osborne\n <\/td>\n Concord\n University (Atlantic Region)\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Heidi\n VanDerveer\n <\/td>\n University\n of California – San Diego (West Region)\n <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

\nHobson guided Fort Hays State to its second Mid-America Intercollegiate\nAthletics Association Regular Season Championship and the program’s first-ever\nMIAA Tournament championship in 2018-19. Hobson led the Tigers to a 30-1 record\nentering the NCAA Championship Tournament, the fewest losses in the regular\nseason in program history. The Tigers made their fifth appearance in the NCAA\nTournament (fourth under Hobson) and earned the No. 1 seed in the Central\nRegional for a second time in Hobson’s tenure. FHSU finished the year 32-2\noverall, the best overall record produced in the program’s NCAA Division II\nhistory. Hobson has guided the Tigers to eight consecutive seasons of 20-plus\nwins going back to the 2011-12 season.

\nHobson now has 16 “Coach of the Year” honors in his 27-year history\nas a women’s college basketball coach. Hobson was also the MIAA Coach of the\nYear this season. He has guided three different colleges to at least 30 wins in\na season in his career (FHSU for the second time this year, Hastings College\nfive times, and Barton (Kan.) Community College once). He now has an overall\nrecord of 650-200 as a college coach, a .765 win percentage.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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