Groves Among Indiana All-Star Coaches
INDIANAPOLIS – Triton boys basketball head coach Jason Groves was bestowed an honor this week by being named an assistant for the Indiana boys All-Star basketball team. The coaching staffs for the IndyStar.com Indiana boys’ All-Stars and the IndyStar.com Indiana boys’ Junior All-Stars included Groves among a trio of quality coaches.
Brent Chitty, coach at Columbus East, will lead the 2015 Indiana boys’ All-Stars as the seniors face Kentucky in the annual series that dates to 1940. He will be assisted by Jason Groves of Triton and Brian Satterfield of Hamilton Southeastern.
Jason Delaney of Indianapolis Tech is the head coach for the 2015 boys’ Junior All-Stars. He will be assisted by Brent Brobston of Frankton and Brandon Hoffman of Silver Creek.
The Indiana All-Star Seniors will play four games over four dates in June. Two of those games will be against the Junior All-Stars, who this year will play just those two games.
The Indiana All-Star seniors will face the Kentucky Senior All-Stars on June 12 at Transylvania University in Lexington and on June 13 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
The Indiana juniors and seniors will play exhibitions against each other on June 8 and June 10 at sites to be announced later.
There will be no junior games against Kentucky this year.
Groves has been head coach at Triton for 10 years, compiling a 188-58 record that includes six sectional, four regional, four semistate and one Class A state title. His teams have won six Northern State Conference crowns, and he was an IBCA District 1 Coach of the Year in 2008. Groves is a 1994 graduate of John Glenn High School and a 1998 graduate of Bethel College, where he played on an NAIA national championship team.