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MEN'S BASKETBALL NAMES DOUG KARLESKINT AS ITS NEW
ASSISTANT COACH
RUSSELLVILLE,
Arkansas –
Arkansas Tech Head Men’s Basketball Coach Mark Downey
announced the addition of Doug Karleskint to his
staff as an assistant coach on Wednesday.
Karleskint replaces Kurt Young, who resigned
recently to accept an assistant coaching position at
Northern Kentucky University. Young had spent the past
three seasons with Downey at Tech.
“The Arkansas Tech Men’s Basketball program got a steal
with the hiring of Doug Karleskint,” Downey said. “We
hated to lose Kurt (Young) and we wish him the best, but
Doug will do a fabulous job. I am excited about his new
ideas and the new season ahead.”
Karleskint,
who will join a Tech staff that also includes assistant
coach Wes Corkins, comes to Tech after spending
the past two seasons as an assistant coach on the staff
of Danny Kasper at Stephen F. Austin State University in
Nacogdoches, Texas. In his two seasons with the
Lumberjacks, Karleskint helped SFA to a 50-14 record and
the back-to-back regular season Southland Conference
championships, including posting a 24-8 record in
2008-09. In addition, the Lumberjacks won the Southland
Conference Tournament this past season and advanced to
the NCAA Tournament, while in 2007-08, SFA played in the
NIT (National Invitational Tournament) and finished with
a 26-6 overall record. While at SFA, he was responsible
for recruiting, game preparation, on-court instruction,
organizing team travel, coordinating all film exchange,
monitoring academic progress of student-athletes and
serving as the Co-Director of the Danny Kasper Summer
Basketball Camps.
“Doug is a great recruiter, a tireless worker and know
nothing but winning,” the fourth-year Tech coach said.
“While working on every level in his young career, Doug
has been on coaching staffs that have averaged 25 wins a
season over the past five years and have made four
national tournament appearances.”
Prior to joining SFA, Karleskint served as a graduate
assistant coach for two seasons (2005-07) on Coach Steve
Tappmeyer’s staff at Northwest Missouri State. While at
Northwest Missouri, Karleskint was involved with
recruiting, on-court instruction and assisted with the
team’s academic mentoring program and helped the
Bearcats post back-to-back 20-win campaigns and a
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association regular
season title in 2007.
Before beginning his two-year stint at Northwest
Missouri State in Maryville, Mo., Karleskint spent the
2003-04 season as an assistant at Fort Scott Community
College in Fort Scott, Kan., and then spent the 2004-05
season as an assistant coach on Happy Osborne’s staff at
Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kent.
While at Fort Scott, Karleskint, who played
both basketball and baseball at Fort Scott in 1999-00,
served as the team’s recruiting coordinator, along with
implementing and supervising the team’s academic
monitoring program. Under the program, each Fort Scott
player on the team earned at least 2.5 grade point
average. In his one season at Georgetown, he was in
charge of high school recruiting in Ohio and Northern
Kentucky. Georgetown finished the 2004-05 season with a
29-6 record and a No. 3 national ranking in the final
NAIA Division I poll.
“As I have said many times before, a head
coach is only as good as his staff,” Downey added.
Karleskint, a native of Fort Scott, Kan., has
finished his master’s degree in education with an
emphasis on athletic administration from Northwest
Missouri State and will graduate in December, 2009. He
earned his bachelor's degree in sports management in
2003 from MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kan.
He is married to the former Kyla Boots and the couple
has a one-year old son, Jadin.
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