IBCA E-Newsletter

Dave Benter of Brownstown Central and Angie Hinton of Lanesville have been chosen as Indiana’s nominees for the National Federation of State High School Associations national basketball coaches of the year.

Benter guided Brownstown Central to a 28-4 season that included the 2024 Class 2A state championship. In the process, his Braves won the Mid-Southern Conference, Southwestern (Hanover) Sectional, Washington Regional and Southport Semi-State.

In 26 seasons at Browntown, his alma mater, Benter has a 477-166 record with 12 sectional titles (2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024), four regional crowns (2004, 2009, 2023, 2024), three semi-state trophies (2004, 2009, 2024), two Class 2A state runner-up finishes (2004, 2009) and the 2024 Class 2A state crown.

Benter is a 1992 graduate of Brownstown Central, where he played four years of basketball and baseball and was an IBCA honorable mention All-State player as a senior. He matriculated to Hanover College, where he stands fourth in school annals with 1,934 career points, was a three-time team MVP, was the 1996 NCAA Division III Player of the Year and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and physical education in 1996.

He later earned a master’s degree in education from from Olivet Nazarene University in 2002.

Benter started his coaching career as the freshman team coach at Southport from 1996-98. He then became the Brownstown Central varsity coach starting in the 1998-99 season.

He has been voted an IBCA District 3 Coach of the Year in 2004, 2010 and 2024, his teams have won 14 Mid-Southern Conference championships, and he is a six-time HBCA District 4 Coach of the Year (2003, 2004, 2010, 2013, 2022, 2024). He also was a Junior All-Star assistant coach in 2004, the Junior All-Star head coach in 2010 and the Indiana All-Star head coach in 2014.

Now in his 29th year as a teacher, now his 27th year at Brownstown Central, Benter currently teaches health and is the School-to-Work coordinator at Brownstown.

Benter and his wife, Kristy, have two children – Katherine, a senior on the women’s team at Hanover, and Jack, a freshman on the Purdue University men’s team.

Hinton directed Lanesville to a 29-1 campaign that included a 51-43 victory over Marquette Catholic for a second consecutive Class A state championship in 2023-24. During the season, the Eagles also won the Southridge Invitational, Southern Athletic Conference, the West Washington Sectional, Crawford County Regional and New Albany Semi-State.

Hinton has posted a 145-20 record in six seasons at Lanesville with six sectional titles as well as regional, semi-state and state crowns in 2023 and 2024. She has a career mark of 326-95 in 18 seasons as a head coach.

Her career ledger includes an 8-2 mark in 1987-88 at Louisville Shawnee plus a 173-73 mark from 1990 to 2001 at New Albany. Her time at New Albany included sectional titles in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2000, regional crowns in 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2000 plus semi-state, Class 4A state and Tournament of Champion trophies in 1999.

She was the 2024 IBCA District 3 Coach of the Year and served as an assistant coach for the 2024 girls’ Junior All-Stars. She previously was an assistant coach for the 1998 Indiana All-Stars. She also was a coach in the HBCA East-West All-Star Game in 1997, an HBCA District 4 Coach of the Year in 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2000, an ICGSA District 5 Coach of the Year in 1997 and the ICGSA State Coach of the Year in 1999.

A 1982 graduate of North Harrison, the former Angie Richards earned four letters each in basketball, volleyball and track & field. She matriculated to IU-Southeast, earning a degree in education in 1986.

Hinton served as the Floyd Central seventh-grade coach in 1986-87, the interim varsity girls’ coach in 1987-88 at Louisville Shawnee and an eighth-grade coach at Scribner Middle School in New Albany from 1988-90.

She then coached the New Albany varsity from 1990-2001, a tenure highlighted by the 1999 undefeated Class 4A state champion at 28-0. Hinton also served seventh-grade boys basketball coach at Scribner Middle School in 2004-05, a girls’ assistant coach at Charlestown in 2005-06 and a North Harrison fifth-grade boys’ assistant to her son Joseph in 2006-07. She then was a girls’ assistant at North Harrison from 2014-18, helping coach daughter Hallie as they were Class 3A state runners-up in 2016 and 2017, before taking over at the Lanesville program in 2018.

Hinton now is in her 38th year as a math teacher, one year at Shawnee, 26 years at Scribner Middle School and now in her 11th year at North Harrison.

Hinton and her husband, Joe, a former Floyd Central boys’ coach and Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, are parents to two adult children – Joseph, the current boys’ varsity coach at Corydon Central, and Hallie, the current Lanesville girls’ JV coach.

NFHS/INDIANA COACH OF THE YEAR HONOREES

2002 to Present (working to compile a complete list of honorees from prior years)

*State and Section 4 winner. Section 4 includes Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin.
**State, Section 4 and National winner.