Mike Frey
Girl's Director/17U Coach
Coach Frey is a 1984 graduate of Bath High School and a 1988 graduate of Bluffton College. Coach Frey has been involved in youth basketball since 1988 as a coach, program coordinator, and as a tournament director. Coach Frey currently coaches 7th grade girls basketball at Bath Middle School and has been a OHSAA basketball official since 2002. Coach Frey joined Team 419 as the 16U girls coach in 2016 and took over as Co-Director in 2018 along with Dre White who operates the boys side.
FAVORITE COACH: Gregg Popovich
FAVORITE QUOTE: "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -- Michael Jordan
Dre White
Boys' Director
Coach White is a 2010 graduate of Bath High School. Following his high school days, he played four seasons at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware Ohio. During his tenure at OWU, he was apart of a North Coast Athletic Conference tournament championship and helped lead the Battling Bishops to three consecutive 20-win seasons and reached the NCAA tournament three consecutive times—both first in school history, at the time. After graduating from OWU in 2014, White spent two seasons as a Varsity Assistant coach with the girls program at Allen East High School. Coach White was named Head Boys Basketball Coach at Ada High school in 2016 and spent 4 seasons leading the Bulldogs. Coach White went on to serve as an assistant coach for the mens program at the University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima during the 2020-2021 season. Coach White served as the Head Boys Basketball Coach at Upper Scioto Valley High School from 2021-2024 where he led the Rams to back to back Northwest Conference Championships and was named NWCC Coach of the year in each of his three years at USV. Coach White accepted the Head Boys Basketball Coach position in Spring 2024 at Bath High School where he returned to his alma mater. The 2024 season will mark 10 seasons Coach White has been with Team419. He first began as the 17U coach with the girls program in 2015 before moving to the boys side in 2017 coaching a very successful 17U team and then took over as Co-Director in 2018 with Mike Frey, who operates the girls side.
FAVORITE COACH: Frank Martin
FAVORITE QUOTE: “A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.” -- John Wooden
Jacob Sherrick
Boys' Assistant Director
Coach Sherrick is a 2015 graduate of Allen East High School where he stood out on the hardwood and gridiron. Sherrick comes from a rich family tradition of coaching as he has many relatives who have made a name for themselves while gracing the sidelines. Following high school, Coach Sherrick wasted no time keeping that family tradition alive. He spent 3 seasons as the Junior Varsity and Varsity Assistant basketball coach at Ada High school with Coach White. He also has spent the past several seasons as an assistant football coach at Marion Local High School with his uncle, Head Coach Tim Goodwin. Coach Sherrick has been a part of the storied tradition of the Flyers that has totaled 14 total state championships. Coach Sherrick has been a part of 6 of those 14 titles. Coach Sherrick is currently also the Junior Varsity basketball coach at Marion Local. Coach Sherrick has been with Team419 since 2016.
FAVORITE COACH: Tom Izzo and Brad Stevens
FAVORITE QUOTE: “Basketball’s kind of like a girlfriend. If you don’t pay attention to her, she’s probably going to drift off on you. I look at basketball that way. Basketball’s something you’ve got to love. You gotta love, you gotta be committed to, you’ve got to spend time with. And when you don’t do that, basketball gets mad … just like your girlfriend would.” -- Bob Huggins
