April 30, 1997
GREENVILLE -- Furman University head basketball coach Larry Davis announced today that Ken Potosnak has been hired as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Paladins.
Potosnak, whose coaching tenure includes a two-year assistant coaching stint at Wake Forest (1990-92), where he served alongside fellow Demon Deacons' assistant Larry Davis, is the first of two full-time assistant coaches hired by Davis, who on Tuesday named Ryan Odom as the Paladins' restricted earnings coach.
"I believe our basketball program is much stronger with the addition of Ken Potosnak to our staff," Davis said on Wednesday. "Ken has a strong working knowledge of the Southern Conference, and he has established relationships with many coaches in South Carolina. I also think he is a tremendous recruiter and very good in the area of player development and in coaching the game."
Prior to coming to Furman, Potosnak served as an assistant coach at The Citadel (1992-97) for five years, moving from restricted earnings coach to the role of full-time assistant coach his last four years. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant coach at Wake Forest n 1990 under head coach Dave Odom. During Potosnak's two-year stay in Winston-Salem, the Deacons made consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament with teams that featured NBA players Randolph Childress, Rodney Rogers, Chris King, and Anthony Tucker.
A 1990 graduate of Randoph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., Potosnak earned four letters in basketball while helping lead the Yellow Jackets to 84 wins during his collegiate career. As a senior in 1990, he was named Randolph-Macon's Scholar Athlete-of-the-Year.
A native of New Kensington, Pa., Potosnak, who serves as a veteran counselor and resident coach at the prestigious Five-Star Basketball Camp, earned a master's degree from Wake Forest in 1992.
Potosnak, 29, is single.