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Gregg Collins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gregg attended Granville local schools and Kiski Prep school. During high school he played various sports, but basketball was always his first love. Don Cristian his coach at Granville was a major influence in him wanting to become a basketball coach. Gregg received his B.A. from Otterbein University where he lettered 3 years on the tennis team. He received his M.ED. From Ashland University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1980 Gregg started his coaching career as a junior high basketball coach at Olentangy local schools. After three years of JH coaching he became the varsity assistant at Groveport Madison High School for John Feasel Sr., who guided the school to its only District Championship. Gregg became the head coach at Lexington in 1985. In seven years at Lexington his record was 129 wins and 42 losses. His teams won three District championships, two Regional championships and two State Championships (1989,1991). While at Lexington Gregg was able to coach many outstanding basketball players including Jamie Feick who played in the NBA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After four years away from coaching Gregg was offered the head coaching job at Mansfield Senior High School. The next twelve years Gregg\u2019s record at Mansfield was 235 wins 49 losses. The 1999 and 2005 teams advanced to the State Final Four. Both teams lost to eventual State Champions, first to Cincinnati Moeller and second to Canton Mckinley. His Mansfield teams had many players play Division 1 basketball and professionally overseas including Rick Minard who was drafted into the NBA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall Gregg has a record of 367 wins and 99 losses with a winning percentage of 79%. His teams have achieved the following accomplishments:
9 -Twenty win seasons; 14 -Conference championships; 17 -Sectional Championships; 9 -District Championships; 4 -Final Four appearances; 2 -State Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregg coached Team Ohio for 5 years competing in the Memorial Sergio Rizzi Italy Tournament. The roster included LeBron James, Chris Quinn and many other future professional players. Coach Collins was the recipient of the OHSBCA Coach of the year in 2002. He received numerous conference and District 6 COY awards. After retiring from High School basketball Gregg joined John Ellenwood\u2019s staff at Ashland University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregg and his wife Linda of 43 years have two adult sons (Joshua & Justin), 1 adult daughter (Jamie), 1 daughter in law (Haley) and two grandchildren (Josie & Finn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gregg Collins Gregg attended Granville local schools and Kiski Prep school. During high school he played various sports, but basketball was always his first love. Don Cristian his coach at Granville was a major influence in him wanting to become a basketball coach. Gregg received his B.A. from Otterbein University where he lettered 3 years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"hs_fullhtml":"","hs_head_html":"","hs_body_html":"","luceo_ov_hero_headline":"","luceo_ov_hero_subtext":"","luceo_ov_cta_text":"","luceo_ov_cta_url":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3591","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.luceosports.com\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.luceosports.com\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.luceosports.com\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.luceosports.com\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.luceosports.com\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.luceosports.com\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/wp.luceosports.com\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3591\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.luceosports.com\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}