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Head Coach Charlie Brock
 Charlie Brock in 2007-08 will enter his 10th season as the head coach at Springfield College with more victories (140) in nine years than any of his predecessors.
Brock’s achievements as a coach are certainly impressive. He has taken three schools to the NCAA Division III Tournament and has an overall, 27-year record of 369-335 for a winning percentage of .524. At Springfield he is 140-106 (.569).
Brock, however, is far from just a successful coach; he’s also a committed educator and community leader. In April, 2006, Brock was named to serve on the prestigious National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Board of Directors. Also in 2006, he was named to the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee. Since 2002, he has been a member of the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee, which made national news in May, 2007 when they changed the distance of the men's collegiate three-point line from 19' 9" to 20' 9". That will take affect at the start of the 2008-09 season. Also within the past year, he just completed a term of 22 years as a member of the NABC Academics Committee, a committee in which he was the chair. Locally, Brock is the director of the Springfield College Pride’s Literacy Awards program, which is associated with Verizon, the City of Springfield and the Community Foundation of Western Mass. The purpose of this program is to promote the importance of reading to children, targeting first through third grades. He is also a contributing writer to the popular NABC publication, Courtside.
Brock has maintained a long tradition of SC coaches who have lent their teaching skills to other countries. In the summer of 2005 he traveled to Taiwan to lecture and conduct clinics to various Taiwanese age groups. Members of the Taiwanese Basketball Federation have spent extended periods of time observing Coach Brock in season.
In September of 2004, he accepted an invitation to travel to Eastern Europe to hold two days of clinics for over 200 coaches in Estonia. Brock has since been asked to take an active role in the Estonian Basketball Association.
“I am flattered to be part of Springfield College’s long-standing international basketball tradition,” Brock said. “The recent Olympic success of countries such as Lithuania and the number of Eastern European players in the NBA exemplify how big the international game has become.”
Since taking over as head coach at Springfield College, Brock has also carried on the long and proud tradition of basketball on the Alden Street campus. In 2006, Brock helped guide talented scorer Derek Yvon '06 to breaking the school's all-time scoring record (2,103). In 2007, Anthony Pizzo '07 broke the SC career assist mark (523).
The 2004-2005 NCAA team finished at 22-7 and tied WPI for the regular season championship with a 10-2 record before losing to the Engineers in the championship game of the conference tournament. Brock’s youthful team (only one of the team's starters in the final nine games was a senior) won its last seven and 10 of its final 11 regular season games.
During the 2003-04 season, he took a team with no seniors that suffered a slow start and molded it into a unit that won seven of its last nine games and came within two points of the NCAA Tournament. The 72-70 loss to Babson on a last-second shot in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship game deprived Brock of his fifth trip to the national tournament as a head coach. He would only have to wait one year for that accomplishment.
In the 1999-2000 campaign, he led SC to a 21-9 record and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 for the first time in school history. SC won the NEWMAC Tournament title after finishing in a three-way tie for second place in the conference during the regular season. For his efforts, he was named the NEWMAC Coach of the Year.
Some consider the ’99-’00 season as the high-water mark of the program since SC moved to the D-III ranks in 1995-’96, but it is far from the only highlight. Brock led a relatively inexperienced squad to several exciting wins in the 2002-2003 campaign, including triumphs over regional-power Salem State and an upset of nationally-ranked Johns Hopkins in the championship of the Holiday Inn Naismith Classic.
The 2001-2002 season was a memorable one. SC won ten of its first 11 games – one of the best starts in school history. The Pride captured the Holiday Inn/Naismith Classic, holding off high-powered Marymount (Va.), 71-67, in the championship game. Numerous individual milestones were reached, including Brock becoming the 52nd active coach in Division III to win 300 games in a 59-48 win at Wheaton.
In his first season as SC’s head man, Brock’s ‘98-‘99 team posted a 19-8 record and just missed earning a bid to the NCAA Tournament after placing second in the inaugural NEWMAC Tournament.
Brock, a 1976 Springfield College graduate, resurrected the men’s basketball program at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. In the 1997-1998 season, he guided the Tigers to a 21-6 record and their third consecutive winning season and first 20-win campaign in 30 years. Trinity advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament, the team's first post-season appearance since 1969. Brock was selected the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Coach of the Year.
Prior to taking the post at Trinity in 1989, Brock was the head basketball coach at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., where he compiled a 45-38 record in three seasons (1986-1989). He led the Gusties to the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship in 1989, and participated in two NCAA Division III Tournaments. Brock began his coaching career at Drew University in Madison, N. J., where he spent six seasons (1980-1986).
As an undergraduate at Springfield College, Brock was a three-year member of the men's basketball squad coached by former director of athletics Ed Bilik. Brock also served as an assistant coach under Bilik for three seasons (1976-1979).
A native of Hopkinton, Mass., Brock earned his bachelor’s degree in rehabilitation counseling at Springfield College in 1976 and a master’s degree in physical education at SC in 1980. He also serves as an associate professor of physical education.
Brock and his wife Kitty have three children, William, Christiana, and Chase.
Brock's All-Time Coaching Record
| Year
| Wins
| Losses
| School
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| 1980-81
| 10
| 15
| Drew
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| 1981-82
| 10
| 14
| Drew
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| 1982-83
| 12
| 11
| Drew
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| 1983-84
| 17
| 9
| Drew
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| 1984-85
| 10
| 15
| Drew
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| 1985-86
| 12
| 13
| Drew
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| 1986-87
| 15
| 13
| Gustavus Adolphus
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| 1987-88
| 16
| 11
| Gustavus Adolphus
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| 1988-89
| 14
| 14
| Gustavus Adolphus
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| 1989-90
| 7
| 18
| Trinity (Texas)
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| 1990-91
| 8
| 17
| Trinity (Texas)
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| 1991-92
| 9
| 16
| Trinity (Texas)
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| 1992-93
| 9
| 16
| Trinity (Texas)
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| 1993-94
| 16
| 9
| Trinity (Texas)
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| 1994-95
| 12
| 13
| Trinity (Texas)
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| 1995-96
| 17
| 8
| Trinity (Texas)
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| 1996-97
| 14
| 11
| Trinity (Texas)
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| 1997-98
| 21
| 6
| Trinity (Texas)
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| 1998-99
| 19
| 8
| Springfield
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| 1999-2000
| 21
| 9
| Springfield
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| 2000-2001
| 14
| 12
| Springfield
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| 2001-2002
| 18
| 9
| Springfield
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| 2002-2003
| 12
| 15
| Springfield
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| 2003-2004
| 12
| 16
| Springfield
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| 2004-2005
| 22
| 7
| Springfield
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| 2005-2006
| 10
| 16
| Springfield
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| 2006-2007
| 12
| 14
| Springfield
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| 27 seasons
| 369
| 335
| .524 winning percentage
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| 9 seasons (at SC)
| 140
| 106
| .569 winning percentage
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Brock's Tournament Appearances
| Season
| Tournament
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| 1986-87, at GA
| NCAA Tournament
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| 1988-89, at GA
| MIAC Champions, NCAA Tournament
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| 1997-98, at Trinity
| SCAC Champions, NCAA Tournament
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| 1999-2000, at SC
| NEWMAC Champions, NCAA Sweet 16
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| 2004-2005, at SC
| NEWMAC Regular Season Co-Champs, NCAA Tournament second round
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