Interview w/ Steve Howes (Catholic University’s All Time Winningest Coach)

**EPISODE #100**

Coach Steve Howes shares his journey from playing JV basketball as a junior at Our Lady of Good Counsel to becoming the all time winningest coach in the history of Catholic University basketball. I proudly served under him from 2017 to 2019 at Catholic University!

After transferring from Frostburg to Catholic University he played for Coach Mike Lonergan. After graduating from Catholic he returned to his old high school stomping grounds and coached at Our Lady of Good Counsel HS. Eventually Coach Howes returned to Catholic University to coach with his mentor [Mike Lonergan]. He helped to recruit most of the 2001 NCAA DIII National Championship winning team and then returned to DC and served as an Assistant Coach. He would later succeed him after Mike moved on to be an Assistant Coach at the University of Maryland.

During his time coaching high school he coached future pro basketball players such as Roger Mason Jr, James Gist, Chris Monroe and others. While coaching at Catholic University he also coached future pro basketball players.

He's now the Athletic Director as his alma mater [Our Lady of Good Counsel] and is one of the few people who can say that they've only worked at their alma maters. His legacy lives on at Catholic University as well as his impressive coaching tree. In this interview he explains why he took a chance on hiring me when no other college programs did, and what he misses about coaching.

Some of the impressive accomplishments from his 15 seasons at the helm of Catholic include:

-All time winningest coach

-Seven 20-win seasons, 11 postseason tournaments, 13 winning seasons

-Five conference championships, four regular-*season titles, six NCAA Tournaments

-2012-13 Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year (D3hoops.com). He and his assistants also garnered Landmark Coaching Staff of the Year honors.

-Twice nominated (2013, ’15) for the Glenn Robinson National Coach of the Year award. (Only 15 Division III coaches are nominated each season.)

**This episode is dedicated to the late Marty Murray, who embodied what it meant to be a Catholic University Cardinal**