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Assistant coach accepts position as PE director
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| After 22 years as an assistant basketball coach, Scott Horstman (center) will move into the role of physical education department chair at the San Jacinto College Central campus. |
By Staff reports
Scott Horstman, assistant coach of the San Jacinto College men’s basketball team for the last 22 years, recently resigned his coaching position to become the Central campus physical education department chair, replacing Becky Lidolph, who recently retired.
Horstman will miss coaching and all the action of the basketball court, but knows a career change will be good in many ways. “It’s going to be hard for me at first, because basketball is what I love to do,” he commented. “I will still attend as many games as possible, but the pressure that coaches put on themselves to win will not be there for me, which will be a relief. I always loved the challenge of recruiting. But recruiting is a year-around job and you have to put in a lot of time, and that means being away from home a lot. My daughters (Amanda, 12, and Lindsey, 10) are at the age where I want to be able to go and watch them in their activities.”
Horstman, who lives in Pasadena, grew up in Waco, where he graduated from Midway High School (he was recently inducted into the high school’s athletic hall of fame). He earned a bachelor’s degree in teaching from Sam Houston State University (SHSU) in 1984, and a master’s in education in 1986 from the University of Texas at Tyler.
As a guard on the SHSU basketball team, Horstman made the All-Conference team two seasons and was named the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year in 1984. Records set by the skillful player include most assists in a single game (18), most assists in a single season (241), most career assists (813), most career steals (269), and most minutes played in a single season (1,104). Horstman was inducted into the SHSU Hall of Honor in 2007.
Horstman began coaching at Tyler Junior College at the age of 22 as an assistant coach. He also served as an assistant coach at Howard College in Big Spring from 1986 to 1987 before taking over as assistant coach at San Jac in 1987.
He reflects on his lengthy coaching tenure at San Jac with a sense of satisfaction, and no regrets. “I have so many memories and stories that I couldn’t begin to list them all,” he remarked. “Just being a part of the great tradition of the successful San Jac basketball program sums it up. I have recruited and coached a lot of great players, Sam Cassell and Steve Francis, for example. In the 22 years I served as assistant coach, we won 586 games and lost 148, won 16 conference championships, had eight trips to the national playoffs, and were the national runner-up twice.”
Horstman says it’s been a privilege and an honor to coach side by side with highly regarded head coach Scott Gernander for so long. “Having worked with Scott G. has been great. He gave me a lot of freedom in recruiting and coaching on the floor. We worked well together. I will miss being next to him on the bench. We had many of great times together. I will be stopping by his office and visiting with him.”
Gernander expresses a mutual respect and admiration for Horstman, and says he will miss him. “I am very happy for Scott in his new position and it is something I think he will do very well at,” Gernander said. “At the same time, I am losing someone who has been like a co-coach for me for the past 22 years. I could not have been luckier to have had someone like Scott with me. He has been a great recruiter, he has worked well on the teaching aspects of the game, but his biggest influence has been his knowledge of the game. Whatever success we have had over the past 22 years has been so much a reflection on the job he has done.”
Horstman’s duties in his position as physical education department chair will include budget management, acquisition of faculty members, faculty and staff evaluations, management of facilities, payroll, new course and program development, etc. “Stepping into the director’s position will be a new challenge for me, but I look forward to it,” he commented. “There will be a lot of decisions I will have to make in my new position, but I think having coached for 25 years has helped to prepare me.”
San Jacinto College serves more than 24,500 students in over 140 degrees and certificates in university transfer and technical programs. The College also serves the community through workforce training. Students come with various goals and aspirations and we are committed to their success. San Jacinto College. Your Goals. Your College.
For more information about San Jacinto College, please call 281-998-6150 or visit www.sanjac.edu.
Horstman will miss coaching and all the action of the basketball court, but knows a career change will be good in many ways. “It’s going to be hard for me at first, because basketball is what I love to do,” he commented. “I will still attend as many games as possible, but the pressure that coaches put on themselves to win will not be there for me, which will be a relief. I always loved the challenge of recruiting. But recruiting is a year-around job and you have to put in a lot of time, and that means being away from home a lot. My daughters (Amanda, 12, and Lindsey, 10) are at the age where I want to be able to go and watch them in their activities.”
Horstman, who lives in Pasadena, grew up in Waco, where he graduated from Midway High School (he was recently inducted into the high school’s athletic hall of fame). He earned a bachelor’s degree in teaching from Sam Houston State University (SHSU) in 1984, and a master’s in education in 1986 from the University of Texas at Tyler.
As a guard on the SHSU basketball team, Horstman made the All-Conference team two seasons and was named the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year in 1984. Records set by the skillful player include most assists in a single game (18), most assists in a single season (241), most career assists (813), most career steals (269), and most minutes played in a single season (1,104). Horstman was inducted into the SHSU Hall of Honor in 2007.
Horstman began coaching at Tyler Junior College at the age of 22 as an assistant coach. He also served as an assistant coach at Howard College in Big Spring from 1986 to 1987 before taking over as assistant coach at San Jac in 1987.
He reflects on his lengthy coaching tenure at San Jac with a sense of satisfaction, and no regrets. “I have so many memories and stories that I couldn’t begin to list them all,” he remarked. “Just being a part of the great tradition of the successful San Jac basketball program sums it up. I have recruited and coached a lot of great players, Sam Cassell and Steve Francis, for example. In the 22 years I served as assistant coach, we won 586 games and lost 148, won 16 conference championships, had eight trips to the national playoffs, and were the national runner-up twice.”
Horstman says it’s been a privilege and an honor to coach side by side with highly regarded head coach Scott Gernander for so long. “Having worked with Scott G. has been great. He gave me a lot of freedom in recruiting and coaching on the floor. We worked well together. I will miss being next to him on the bench. We had many of great times together. I will be stopping by his office and visiting with him.”
Gernander expresses a mutual respect and admiration for Horstman, and says he will miss him. “I am very happy for Scott in his new position and it is something I think he will do very well at,” Gernander said. “At the same time, I am losing someone who has been like a co-coach for me for the past 22 years. I could not have been luckier to have had someone like Scott with me. He has been a great recruiter, he has worked well on the teaching aspects of the game, but his biggest influence has been his knowledge of the game. Whatever success we have had over the past 22 years has been so much a reflection on the job he has done.”
Horstman’s duties in his position as physical education department chair will include budget management, acquisition of faculty members, faculty and staff evaluations, management of facilities, payroll, new course and program development, etc. “Stepping into the director’s position will be a new challenge for me, but I look forward to it,” he commented. “There will be a lot of decisions I will have to make in my new position, but I think having coached for 25 years has helped to prepare me.”
San Jacinto College serves more than 24,500 students in over 140 degrees and certificates in university transfer and technical programs. The College also serves the community through workforce training. Students come with various goals and aspirations and we are committed to their success. San Jacinto College. Your Goals. Your College.
For more information about San Jacinto College, please call 281-998-6150 or visit www.sanjac.edu.
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