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Coaches
Dave Sweet
Director of Athletics
Women’s Basketball Head Coach
dsweet@keuka.edu
Dave Sweet begins his tenth season as the head coach of the women’s basketball team and has an overall record of 133-85.
Sweet guided the Storm to its sixth NEAC title in the past seven years while also reeling off a 15-game winning streak to finish with a 17-8 mark in 2008-09. The squad also played in its second NCAA Tournament in the past three seasons.
In 2007-08, Sweet guided the Storm to a 14-10 overall record (13-3 NEAC) while finishing in second place in the conference.
In 2006-07, Sweet led Keuka to an 18-8 overall mark while winning a fourth straight North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) tournament championship. Sweet, named NEAC Coach of the Year, also led the Storm to its first-ever NCAA Tournament.
In 2005-06, Sweet guided the Storm to its third straight NEAC tournament championship while posting a 16-10 record and a 12-3 conference mark. The Storm were also selected to play in the ECAC Upstate Tournament.
He has held the director of athletics position since joining the Keuka staff in 1984 and coached the men’s basketball squad from 1985-2000, compiling a 203-168 record. Prior to the advent of the 2000-01 academic year, he was named women’s hoop coach and volleyball coach. Sweet held the women’s volleyball head coach position from 2000-05 leading the Storm to a 100-69 mark.
Sweet, who holds a bachelor’s degree from Cleary College (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and a master’s degree from Eastern Michigan, was a decorated high school athlete. A letter-winner in nine sports, he was an all-league football, basketball and track performer and was team MVP in all three sports his senior year. He was also named to the all-state football squad.
Sweet started his coaching career in the Michigan high schools ranks, leading both Monroe Jefferson High School and Napoleon High School. He later served as an assistant basketball coach at Eastern Michigan University.
Sweet lives in Penn Yan, N.Y. with his wife Sharon, a Keuka graduate and high school science teacher at Newark High School.
Katie Marcella
Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach
Head Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Coach
Katie Marcella begins her second season as an assistant women’s basketball coach here at Keuka. Marcella graduated from Brockport State in 2007 with a degree in physical education.
Marcella also directs the Storm’s men’s and women’s cross country programs in the fall.
She was a 4-year starter and two-time captain for Brockport while being named to the All-SUNYAC second team as a junior and first team as senior. She amassed 987 points and would have reached the 1,000 point milestone if not for a torn ACL. She finished her career third all-time in steals and 3-pointers, sixth all-time in rebounding, and seventh in 3-point percentage. Marcella was also named to the JPMorgan Chase All-Tournament first team her senior year.
Marcella attended Guilderland High School and was 3-sport star. She lettered five times in track and field and cross country and three times in basketball. She held the long jump record at her school upon graduating. Was named her school’s Female Athlete of the Year as a senior.
Marcella is currently pursuing her master’s from Brockport in Athletic Administration.
Ken Owen
Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach
Ken Owen begins his fourth season as an assistant coach on the women’s basketball team. Owen also is the assistant coach for both men’s and women’s tennis here at Keuka. In 2009 he helped lead the women’s tennis squad to its first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance, a year after helping guide the team to a North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) regular season championship, the young program’s first.
Owen was the head coach of Keuka College’s softball team from 2004-05 and helped bring in some of the recruits that led to the programs’ back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2007 and 2008.
He holds an associates degree in accounting from Alfred State College and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
