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Chase Kratzenberg has been appointed as the head coach of the New Boston Glenwood boys basketball program. This marks his first head coaching role in boys basketball after serving as athletic director and coach at South Point.
A coaching change can be among several things in life that are difficult to accept.
However, it’s easier to absorb when the coach in question is an individual that understands the local area and wants to take the job as seriously as it warrants.
Chase Kratzenberg, who was the athletic director at South Point for five years and served in various roles as a head football coach and assistant track and field coach at South Point as well as an assistant boys basketball coach at Ironton, will take the reins of the New Boston Glenwood boys basketball program in a hire that was made official at a New Boston Local Schools Board Meeting on Tuesday, May 12. It will be Kratzenberg’s first head coaching opportunity in the sport of boys basketball.
“It means the world to me that the administration at New Boston Glenwood — the kids, the teachers, the community — have put their faith in me to lead their basketball program,” Kratzenberg said. “I know that basketball runs deep in the community of New Boston, and it means a lot to me that they are putting faith in me, so I’m honored and humbled to have this opportunity. I’m not taking this lightly and I’m looking forward to the growth of not only the kids that are in the program, but the program itself and the athletic department as a whole. I just want to dive into the community and really try to grow the brand of New Boston.”
Kratzenberg, who is a 2009 graduate of South Point, earned his bachelor’s degree in secondary education in 2014 from Marshall and followed that up by obtaining a master’s degree in athletic administration at Ohio in 2020.
In addition to the eight years of teaching experience that Kratzenberg sports in the classroom, he has over a decade’s worth of coaching experience between three different sports — football, boys basketball and track and field.
While the New Boston Glenwood boys basketball opportunity will be Kratzenberg’s first head coaching gig in the sport, it is not his first spot as the head man of the program as a whole.
Kratzenberg was the head coach for the final five games of the 2016 season as well as the entire 2017 season inside the South Point football program, and coached as an assistant boys basketball coach at Ironton under both Mark LaFon and P.J. Fitch, the latter of whom is now presently at New Boston Local Schools as its superintendent.
Outside of his experiences at South Point and Ironton, Kratzenberg has also worked with the Ohio Force travel basketball program, which is based out of Ironton and works with kids from all across the Tri-State Area in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. His sons, Tyus and Talen, are a part of that program.
“It’s been a joy coaching them and trying to grow the brand of basketball in our area,” Kratzenberg said. “We’re taking a lot of kids from Lawrence and Scioto County and just trying to make them better basketball players.”
In terms of the coaching staff that Krazenberg will put together at New Boston Glenwood, he says that it will be a matter of who fits his vision.