David Schlabach
Hiland High School
Impact Statement
Schlubach has coached 5 State Championship teams and boasts over 600 wins over his career thus far.
Biography
Coaching in small-school Division 4, Schlabach has led the Lady Hawks to a 458-74 record in 21 seasons. His teams have won four state titles – in 2000, 2005, 2006 and 2008 – and his 2000 and 2005 teams finished unbeaten with 28-0 records.
The Lady Hawks also advanced to the state championship game in three of the past four seasons. The third of those title-game trips came this season as Hiland (19-9) finished strong despite the most losses by a Schlabach-coached team since his first season, in 1991-92. In all, 10 of his teams have reached the state’s Final Four, and he has coached 10 regional champions, 11 district champions and 19 sectional champions, and his teams have won or shared the Inter-Valley Conference (IVC) title 19 straight years.
Schlabach coached the Girls East squad in the McDonald’s All-American Game in 2010, and was named National Coach of the Year by the National Federation of State High School Associations in 2009, one of many honors he has received. He is a 10-time IVC Coach of the Year, a seven-time District 5 Coach of the Year, and a 12-time Eastern District Coach of the Year.
The Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association named Schlabach Division 4 Coach of the Year in 2000, and he was The Associated Press Division 4 Coach of the Year in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2006. His younger brother, Mark, is the boys basketball coach at Hiland, and led the Hawks to Division 4 state titles the past two seasons.
Since being honored in 2012, Schlabach has continued to lead the Lady Hawks. In 2017, he led the team to another Division IV State Championship. Most recently, they were in the Final Four in 2019. Schlabach currently owns a 634-96 career record, that’s a 86.8% winning percentage after 730 games.
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