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Men's Basketball
Coaching Staff
Bob
Nocton is entering his fourth year as head coach of the
Thunderhawks. Last year's team finished 22-9 overall, first in the league,
and lost in the semi-final game of the ORC State Tournament. In his first
three years, his teams have finished 20-8; 20-9; 22-9 and have been runner-up
twice in the league and won the league last year (17-1).
Prior to joining the Middletown campus program,
he was head boys coach at Middletown H.S. for seven years. Bob was recognized
as the Hamilton Journal Area Coach of the Year in 1998-99, when he led
the Middies to a 15-7 record and GMC runner-up finish.
Prior to coming to Middletown, Nocton was the
head coach at Columbian H.S. in Tiffin, Ohio. While at Columbian he received
District 6 Coach of the Year and Northwest Ohio Division I Coach of the
Year honors after leading Columbian to a school best 18-3 record and their
first league championship in 18 years.
Bob is an assistant principal and athletic director
at Edgewood Middle School and resides in Lebanon with his wife , Joyce,
and three sons, Kenny, a Junior at Miami, Oxford, Matt a Senior and Drew
a Sophomore at Lebanon H.S.
To contact Coach Nocton click here.
David Davis comes to Miami University Middletown with 33 years of coaching experience in a variety of sports and at levels from junior high to high school. Coach Davis is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University with a Bachelors of Art Degree and a Masters Degree from Wright State University. He currently teaches sixth grade at Hopewell Elementary School in the Lakota School District where he has taught for 33 years.
David and his wife Mary, a former graduate of Miami University Middletown's nursing program, live in Wayne Township. David's son, Ryan, is also a Miami graduate and is employed by Lifetime Fitness. His daughter, Libby, is an OU graduate and is employed by Target in Fairfield.
To contact Coach Davis click here.
Clifford
Johnson
Fourth year Assistant Coach Clifford Johnson was born and raised in the Historic Dayton View area of Dayton Ohio, he now resides in Middletown Ohio with his wife Nicole, daughter Leah and son Maximillian. An alumnus of Miami University-Middletown achieving his Associate degree in the Arts, Coach Johnson was a member of the ThunderHawk’s first of many State Championships teams in the new millennium (2000-2002). After two successful years as a ThunderHawk, he then moved on to play one year at Indiana Institute of Technology in Fort Wayne Indiana. Coach Johnson finished his schooling at Wright State University and received a BS in Managing Information Systems; he is also employed as a Contract Evaluator/Negotiator for Montgomery County. Coach Johnson will bring a lot of enthusiasm and work ethic as his hopes are to instill those into the lives of the ThunderHawk of now as well as the ThunderHawk of the future.
To contact Coach Johnson click here.
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