*photo credit: original photo courtesy of The Columbus Dispatch files.*

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2024 — St. Francis DeSales High School is pleased to announce the hiring of Kevin Weakley as the next Head Coach of our Girls Basketball program!

Coach Weakley spent twenty-two years leading the Worthington Christian boys basketball program, with an impressive 383-161 overall record which included state runner-up finishes in 2008 (Division IV) and 2020 (Division III). He also served as the Director of Athletics at Worthington Christian from 2006-2023. Weakley is a 1995 graduate of Worthington Christian HS, where he played basketball, leading his team to a Division IV State Runner-Up finish in his senior season.

His playing career continued at Otterbein College under legendary coach Dick Reynolds. Kevin started in all 25 games during his freshman season for the Cardinals averaging eight points, four assists, and two steals per game. In his senior season (1998-99), he went on to earn first team All-OAC, first team All-Great Lakes Region, and first team All-America from the National Association of Basketball Coaches. He led the OAC in scoring at 23.3 points per game, set an OAC single-season record with 100 made three-pointers, and was voted the Regional Player of the Year.

Weakley finished his college journey with 1,666 points, 569 assists and 256 steals. He made 230 of 602 (.382) attempts from behind the arc, and converted over 80 percent on free throws at 332 of 412. The lead guard ranks seventh on the Otterbein all-time scoring list and still holds the OAC record for most steals in a career.

Kevin was inducted into the Otterbein University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2021.

Kevin and his wife Anne Marie have three children; Katherine, Megan and Grant who is a sophomore at DeSales and a member of the Boys Basketball Program. Coach Weakley served as an assistant coach for the Boys Basketball Program at SFD during the 2023-24 season.