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In 2007-08, Bokosky became Chapman's all-time winningest coach - a history that spans nearly 90 years. He followed that up the next year by leading the Panthers to a 24-3 record and the most victories in a season in 49 years. The Panthers went on to win their fourth consecutive Division III Independents West Region championship.
"Bo" has guided Chapman to four straight 20-win seasons and 16 consecutive winning seasons. And he enters the 2009-10 season just five wins shy of 300 for his career. Bokosky is also in his eighth year serving as an Assistant Athletic Director at Chapman.
Prior to Chapman, Bokosky served as an assistant coach in the Big West at Cal State Fullerton and U.C. Irvine where he recruited and coached future NBA players Scott Brooks, Tom Tolbert, Bruce Bowan, Bob Thornton and Johnny Rogers.
A native of Orange County, Bokosky graduated from Santa Ana
Valley High and played at Riverside and Saddleback Community
Colleges before transferring to Fort Lewis College in Colorado
where he received his bachelor’s degree in history in 1978.
Bokosky then earned his master’s degree in education from Cal
State Los Angeles in 1983. He and his wife, Neddie, currently
reside in Orange with their two daughters, Tara and Karly.
Wheatley returned to Chapman just two years removed from a
playing career that included two ESPN the Magazine Academic
All-America selections - the third Panther ever to earn the award
twice. As a guard/forward for the Panthers, Wheatley was twice
named to the Division III All-Independents team. He is also just
one of two players in Chapman's Division III history with over
1,000 points (1,044) and 500 rebounds (579).
Ian's Chapman days go back to the early 1990s as a team manager
for a Panthers team that faced Shaquille O'Neal as player for
Louisiana State. He has served on Bokosky's staff for the past nine
seasons and has seen the Panthers win 20 or more games in a season
four times. Prior to that, Ian was an assistant coach at Rialto
High. Ian also serves as the facilities manager with Chapman's
athletics department.




