Mike Winters is currently the Boys’ Basketball Head Coach at Harlem High School in Machesney Park, Illinois. He is also the author of the new book, The Journey:  Lessons from the Hardwood.  Mike has spent 18 seasons as a Varsity Basketball Coach at Oregon, Rockford Jefferson, Rock Falls, Boylan Catholic and Machesney Park Harlem in the state of Illinois. His career record is 357-164 (.687-win percentage). He opened his career with 14 consecutive winningseasons. Coach Winters has led three different programs to the State Tournament.

Coach Winters has been named the IBCA District Coach of the Year seven times and was the Sauk Valley Newspapers Coach of the Year in 2006 and the NIC-10 Coach of the Year in 2016. His teams have won 7 conference titles, 8 regional titles and 4 sectional titles. He led his teams to nine 20-win seasons and two 30-win seasons.

Coach Winters has coached players who have gone on to play at Kansas State, New Orleans, Florida A&M, Evansville, Southeast Missouri, Ball State, Wisconsin-Green Bay, University of Illinois-Chicago, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Air Force and many others who have competed at the Division II, Division III and JUCO levels. Two of his former players are now college head coaches.

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You’ll want to have your notebook with you as you listen to this episode with Mike Winters, Boys’ Basketball Head Coach at Harlem High School in Machesney Park, Illinois.

Website - https://www.coachwinters.com/

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Twitter - @winters_coach

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