Who said you can’t go home again? A former Owlcaptain who served as student assistant coach whilecompleting his degree, Alphonse Michalski returned to KeeneState College’s men’s basketball coaching staff as anassistant coach last season.
Michalski, a native of Northampton, Mass., has kept close tabson the program since graduating in 2005. “Even when Iwasn’t there, I still cared about the program and wanted tosee it succeed,” said Michalski. “I put a lot of blood,sweat, and tears into the program when I played. Hopefully, I canbring some of that passion back.”
“Alphonse is going to be our utility infielder.We’ll plug him in where we need him,” said Head CoachRob Colbert. “He’ll do some recruiting, but his mainfocus will be practice and game coaching.”
A four-year player for the Owls, Michalski (1999-00, 2001-04)was a member of highly successful Keene State basketball team thatearned an NCAA tournament berth. A 1,000-point career scorerwho is second in assists (490) and fifth in steals (161) on KeeneState’s all-time career list, Michalski played on theOwls’ 2003-2004 team that captured the Little Eastchampionship and advanced to the elite-eight of the NCAAtournament.
