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Boro’s Benj Secures 300 Milestone
Springboro girls basketball coach Tom Benjamin earned career victory No. 300 Wednesday night when the Panthers throttled Warren county rival Lebanon, 51-15.
Benjamin was 104-68 from 1997-05 with the Franklin girls basketball program and prior to that went 127-87 in 10 seasons (1986-96 with the Franklin boys program). He now has 69 wins at Boro.
“Benj has a personality that attracts people,” said Boro athletic director Troy Holtrey. “People want to be around him and want to do a good job for him. The first true test of a coach is a test of time and Benj has proved that over the years. No. 300 is an awesome accomplishment.”
It was Benjamin who tagged Holtrey with his first coaching loss at Boro in 1991.
“He beat me in my first coaching game,” Holtrey said. “He was coaching the Franklin boys at the time. I learned early on that his teams played hard and were defensively sound. He always makes great adjustments and molds his teams to his material.”
The affable Benjamin made the seamless transition from boys to girls basketball.
“It’s tremendously different,” said Benjamin, 50. “You have to be cognizant of the girls feelings. I have noticed that in teaching girls they genuinely try to execute to a fault. They even get enamored with a certain play. Guys, with their egos, for the most part, like to rely on athletic ability instead of execution. They get away from execution where the girls pay close attention to it.”
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