Malcolm "Mac" Petty
Head Basketball Coach
Head Golf Coach

Office phone: 765 . 361 .  6238
email: pettym@wabash.edu

Mac Petty enters his 33rd season at the helm of the Little Giant program.

Petty guided the Wabash squad to the best four-year record in the history of the program, going 83-26 from 1996-2000. The Little Giants have had eight seasons with 20 or more victories, with five of those coming while Petty has been the head coach. He was named an honorary alumnus of the College in 2005 and was inducted into the Montgomery County Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. Last year's squad knocked off the 11th-ranked College of Wooster in the semifinals of the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament before falling to Ohio Wesleyan University in the championship game.

Petty joined an elite group of coaches in 2003, becoming the 17th active coach in Division III history to record 400 career victories. Petty will begin this season with an overall record of 463-364, 15th-best among active Division III coaches and 27th-best in the history of DIII basketball.

Petty was named 1997 District Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, marking the second time in his career (1982) that he has received that honor. He was inducted into the Greater Akron Baseball Hall of Fame in October of 2004, celebrating his outstanding baseball career during his high school and early collegiate years.

The 18th coach in Wabash's rich basketball history, Petty quickly established himself as an outstanding coach by guiding the 1981-82 team to the NCAA Division III title with a 24-4 record. Petty led that team, and the two before it, to the NCAA Division III Tournament by winning 19 or more games each year.

A 1968 graduate of the University of Tennessee, Petty ranks first on Wabash' all-time victory list with 400 wins., earning him a place in the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame as a 1996 enshrinee. Petty was a standout baseball and basketball player at Wooster High School in Wooster, Ohio. He earned a basketball scholarship at the University of Tennessee and played both varsity baseball and basketball. Baseball fell by the wayside, despite a Southeastern Conference title in 1966 and a professional offer from the New York Mets. Petty stayed in school, earned his degree in physical education, and helped the Volunteers to the 1967 SEC title on the hardwood.

Following graduation from Tennessee, Petty coached at Loudon (Tenn.) High School for three seasons. He then accepted the head coaching position at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. Petty began coaching at Sewanee in 1973, and built a three-year record of 48-28 in basketball, including NCAA tournament bids in 1975 and 1976.

Petyy left Sewanee following the 1976 season to come to Wabash. Three years later the Little Giants celebrated their first winning season in 18 years with a 14-10 record in 1978-79. Wabash followed with a 20-6 record in 1979-80 and final 19-6 mark in 1980-81, earning tournament bids in both seasons. In 1981-82, Petty's Little Giants started the season with a 5-4 record with losses to Division I schools Louisiana Tech, Texas A & I, and Texas-San Antonio. The loss to San Antonio was the last Wabash would suffer in that magical season as the team reeled off 19 straight victories for the national title.

Petty was an assistant at the 1983 National Sports Festival and, in 1985, he assisted former Purdue coach Gene Keady on the USA's Jones Cup team in Taiwan. Petty is a member of the NABC, currently serving as a congressman and member of the research committee. He has served as a member of the the NCAA 12-member rules committee. He is also a former member of the NABC College Division All-America committee. Petty is a sponsor of the Wabash Fellowship of Christian Athletes and is active in Kiwanis Club and th First United Methodist Church. He's also found time for a little golf, scoring his first hole-in-one a few years ago. He took over as the head coach of the Wabash golf team in 2005.

Petty and his wife, Gloria, have two grown children, Susan and Matt. An Indiana basketball All-Star, Matt was a four-year letterman on the Creighton University basketball team. The Petty's also have four grandchildren.

Antoine Carpenter '00
Assistant Coach

Office phone: 765 . 361 .  6243
email: carpenta@wabash.edu

Antoine Carpenter returns to Wabash College for his second season as an assistant basketball coach and assistant to the athletics director.

Carpenter, an art major and history minor, graduated from Wabash in 2000. He was a two-year starter at guard for the Little Giants’ basketball team. He tallied 161 assists over his four years in a Wabash uniform, including 105 as a senior. Carpenter was part of the Little Giants’ two ICAC championship teams and played in the NCAA Division III Basketball Tournament as a sophomore and junior. Wabash finished with a record of 83-26 over the four years of his playing career. Carpenter also played for two state championship teams at Ben Davis High School prior to coming to Wabash.

Carpenter worked for a year at Covad before returning to college coaching ranks, serving as a graduate assistant coach at Franklin College for two seasons. During that time he helped prepare practice plans, created scouting reports and film breakdowns on opponents, and made recruiting visits and calls to potential student-athletes. He also set up study tables for incoming freshman at Franklin, meeting with them once a week to chart their academic progress.

He was hired by Brownsburg High School in June, 2005, as an in-school suspension monitor and assistant varsity basketball coach, helping the Bulldogs to a 26-20 record over two seasons. Three Brownsburg players he worked with at Brownsburg received NCAA Division I basketball scholarships. Carpenter has also worked at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield for the past year.

Ron Henricks
Assistant Coach

Henricks is in his 12th season at Wabash after a lengthy career as a high school basketball coach. He was most recently the varsity assistant at Greencastle High School from 1995-1998. Prior to that Henricks has served as head coach at South Vermillion (1972-76), Brownstown Central (1976-80), Southmont (198-89), and North Montgomery High Schools (1992-93). He guided South Vermillion to the school's only conference championship and led Southmont to a pair of conference and county titles.

An Indiana State University graduate, he earned both his bachelors and masters degrees from ISU. Now a retired guidance counselor, Henricks and his wife, Tina, have a daughter (Julie) and two grandsons.

Brandon Podgorski
Assistant Coach

Brandon Podgorski is in his second season as a volunteer assistant for the
Little Giants. 

A graduate of Indiana University, Podgorski was the founder and head coach of the Cardinal Hoops AAU program. The team was a Division II national qualifier in 2005. He served as an assistant coach for the Spiece Select 2008 team in 2003 and with the Bloomington White AAU team in 2002.

Podgorski was the assistant varsity coach and head freshman “B” team coach at Bloomington High School North for the 2000-2001 season. He also served as the head coach at Jackson Creek Middle School during the 2002-2003 season. He was also the sports information intern for the Indian Blast and Indiana Blaze soccer programs in 2001.

Podgorski is the owner/operator of Cardinal Fitness in Bloomington and also oversees operations of two fitness clubs in Indianapolis and Columbus. He resides in Bloomington.