Gary Trousdale serves as the Director of the CTB basketball program. His experience includes coaching stops at the University of Tulsa, University of San Francisco, University of Portland and San FranciscoStateUniversity. He currently serves as WPI Director/Head Basketball Coach at Westwind Prep. www.westwindbasketball.com
Trousdale's record in 3 years at Westwind is 73-21. This year the team finished 30-3 and state runner-ups. He has been named Region Coach of the Year the past 3 years in a row.
Recently he has published "The Cager Report," a comprehensive NCAA Division I recruiting service, evaluating the top Division I basketball prospects.
Trousdale has trained student-athletes for over 25 years and has coached at NCAA Division I schools including:
University Of San Francisco
Recruiting Coordinator-Assistant Basketball Coach
Recruited 4 "Freshman of the Year", 12 West Coast Conference players
One of 3 coaches hired, to rebuild program after USF disbanded Men's Basketball in 1981
University of Tulsa
Recruiting Coordinator-Assistant Basketball Coach
Ranked in the API top 20 (13th)
Recruited 1987 Arizona Player of the Year, Michael Scott-North High
Flip Saunders (Head Coach, Detroit Pistons),
Ron Jirsa (Head Coach, MarshallUniversity) served on the staff.
University of Portland
Recruiting Coordinator-Assistant Basketball Coach
Recruited 2 "Freshman of the Year"
Recruited Matt Houle, Former Arizona All-State player
Recruited Eric Spoelstra, current Miami Heat Head Coach
San FranciscoStateUniversity
Recruiting Coordinator-Assistant Basketball Coach
Reached Elite 8 in the NCAA DII playoffs.
Recruited and coached:
Steve Lavin-Former Head Coach, UCLA. ESPN Broadcaster
Pat Sandle-Assistant Coach, University of Pittsburgh
Ranked 5th Nationally
A few of Coach Trousdale's
former Players and Coaching contacts:
Tubby Smith, Head Basketball Coach, University of Minnesota
Steve Lavin, Former Head Basketball Coach, UCLA (Recruited and Coached Lavin at San FranciscoStateUniversity)
Pat Sandle, Assistant Basketball Coach, University of Pittsburgh, Coached Sandle at San FranciscoStateUniversity)
Ron Jirsa, Associate Head Coach, University of Minnesota (Worked with Jirsa at Tulsa)
Flip Saunders, Head Coach, Washington Wizards (Worked with Saunders at Tulsa)
Mike Miller, Head Coach, Eastern Illinois Head Coach
Brian Loyd, Assistant Coach, Toledo (Coached Loyd at Tulsa)
Kevin Mouton, Assistant Coach, RiceUniversity (Coached Mouton at USF)
Bill Carr, Associate Head Coach, University of San Diego (recruited and coached Carr at USF)
plus many others…
Coach Bobby Bossman
Before joining CTB, Coach Bossman served as the Graduate Assistant/Video Coordinator at ClevelandState under Head Coach, Gary Waters. During his time at ClevelandState, the team won the Horizon League Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2009 with a final record of 26-11. Prior to ClevelandState, he was the Graduate Assistant at Clarion University (PA) under Head Coach, Ron Righter. Clarion finished 16-12 in 2007-08 and advanced to the PSAC Playoffs for its 11th straight year. While finishing his undergraduate degree, he coached at Mercyhurst Prep in Erie, Pennsylvania. Coach Bossman also went on a tour of Russia with Athletes in Action in the summer of 2005.
During his collegiate playing career, he worked camps along the east coast including Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Eastern Invitational, Five-Star, University of Florida, University of South Carolina, Morgan Wooten, Danny Nee’s Big Man Camp, PresbyterianCollege, Loyola College of Maryland, GannonUniversity, FairfieldUniversity, and West VirginiaUniversity.
Bossman played at LoyolaCollege in Maryland for two seasons (2002-2004), where he was honored with the “Most Dedicated Award” as a freshman. Before his junior season, he transferred to GannonUniversity in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he was a captain as a junior and senior. Bossman also helped lead the Golden Knights to the NCAA Division II Tournament.
Coach Bossman currently serves as Head Coach of WPI (5th year prep program), teaches Sociology, Criminal Justice and U.S. Government/Free Enterprise at Westwind Prep Academy.
A native of Strongsville, Ohio, Bossman is a 2007 graduate of GannonUniversity with a degree in Criminal Justice. He also earned a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction-Literacy Development from ClevelandStateUniversity in 2009. Bossman has been involved with Fellowship of Christian Athletes since high school and was the Vice President of the Clarion University FCA.
Coach Adam Desautels
Adam Desautels is in his 2nd year as a coach for CTB. He also serves as the head JV coach at Westwind Prep. Adam is a graduate of the University of Washington where he earned his BA in English and Master's Degree in Education. Prior to coming to Westwind, Adam served 4 years as a Seattle area high school coach. He coached for two seasons at SnohomishHigh School and for two seasons at Summit, a last chance alternative school in Seattle. In those 4 seasons, he helped lead his teams to three state tournament appearances, and has never missed the playoffs. In his final year at Summit (the school's final season), he helped lead the team to its first ever Tri-District Tournament Championship, and their first state Tournament appearence since 1996
