Jay Herkelman,
Men's Head Coach
(620) 252-7117
E-mail:  jayh@coffeyville.edu

Jay Herkelman has been the head men’s basketball coach at Coffeyville Community College since 1995. He has won more games than any other men’s basketball coach in school history with a 324-91 (.781 winning percentage) overall record. Over the past six seasons, Herkelman has amassed a 96-12 regular season record against KJCCC eastern division opponents.

Last season he led the Ravens to their fifth Region 6 Championship in the last six years. The team went on to win three games in the national tournament and placed third. Overall, the Ravens finished 33-5 last season, their second straight season with a 33-5 record.

The 2005-2006 Red Ravens also won three games at the national tournament and placed seventh.
He led his 2001-02 squad to a 36-2 record and a second place finish in the NJCAA National Tournament, losing by one point in the championship game.

In 2002-2003, the Ravens were 29-9, won the Region VI championship for the second straight year and placed eighth in the NJCAA National Tournament. In 2003-2004, the Ravens finished 31-7 and placed fifth at the national tournament.

Herkelman has been named the Region VI Coach of the Year in 2001-02, 2002-03, and 2003-04. Herkelman has also been named the KJCCC Eastern Division Coach of the Year in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. He was also named Kansas Basketball Coaches Association Coach-of-the-Year in 2006.

A native of Clinton, Iowa, Herkelman was a two-year starter at Southeastern Community College in Burlington, Iowa, from 1981-83. After being recruited by the University of Dubuque (Iowa), he played two successful seasons for the Spartans.

Herkelman made coaching stops at Eastern New Mexico University and Northeastern Oklahoma A & M before taking on the head coaching duties at Coffeyville Community College in 1995.

He has had 48 players in his career at Coffeyville Community College move on to four-year colleges and universities. One notable athlete under Herkelman’s leadership was Reggie Evans, a starter for the Ravens in 1999 and 2000. Evans is currently in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76’ers and he finished fourth in the league in offensive rebounding in 2002-2003.

Herkelman and his wife Leslie have three daughters: Abbie Ann (12), Emma Francelia, who will be ten in April, and Halle Jae, who will be sxi in March, 2008.

Ryan Hellenthal,
Assistant Coach/Shoot-Out Coordinator
(620) 252-7106
E-mail:  ryanh@coffeyville.edu

Ryan Hellenthal will be in his third season on the Red Raven bench. He also serves as the Jayhawk Shoot-Out Coordinator. During his two seasons assisting Coach Jay Herkelman the Ravens have combined for a 66-10 record, and two national tournament appearances finishing seventh in 2006, and third in 2007.

Before joining the Red Ravens staff, he spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Garden City Community College. During his tenure at Garden City, the Broncbusters won over 60 games and won the Jayhawk West Conference Championship for the first time since 1952.

While at Garden City, Hellenthal served as the recruiting coordinator and coached four all-conference performers and six players who went on to receive Division I scholarships, including a 2004 NJCAA All-American.

Hellenthal, a native of Quincy, Illinois, is a 2002 graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago. While at UIC, Hellenthal served as a student assistant to head coach Jimmy Collins. In 2002, UIC reached the NCAA tournament for the second time in five years by winning the Horizon League Conference Tournament.

Hellenthal attended Dixon and Galesburg High Schools in Illinois and was an all-conference performer in both basketball and baseball. Hellenthal comes from a coaching family as his father, Mike, spent 25 years in the Midwest as a high school coach and athletic director in Quincy, Galesburg, and Dixon, Illinois, as well as Linn-Mar High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

Hellenthal is single and resides in Coffeyville.

Ryan Martin
Assistant Coach
Email: ryanmartin@coffeyville.edu 

Ryan Martin will be in his first season as an assistant coach at Coffeyville. Martin played two seasons for Coach Herklman at Coffeville from 2003 to 2005.

Martin scored 1,039 points in his Red Raven career and helped lead the 2003-2004 team to a 31-7 record and a fifth place finish at the national tournament.

Martin then went to Wichita State University and played two seasons under former Shocker coach Mark Turgeon. Wichita State advanced to the NCAA sweet 16 during Martin’s junior season in 2006 and he was also named one of the top 10 sixth men in the country that season.

After graduating from Wichita State in 2007, Martin accepted an assistant coach position on Coach Herkelman’s staff. Martin is single and is originally from Kansas City, Kansas and is a graduate of Schlagle High School.

Kyle Campbell
Assistant Coach
Email: kylec@coffeyville.edu

Kyle Campbell is in his second season as an assistant on the Ravens coaching staff. He is originally from Curtis, Nebraska where he attended Medicine Valley High School where he was a three sport letter winner all four years of high school in basketball, football and track.

He was also an all-state selection in basketball his junior and senior years in high school. He is a 2006 graduate of Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska with a bachelor’s degree in educational studies. He played four years of college basketball at Hastings, earning four letters in his career.

He comes from a coaching background as both parents were coaches. Campbell is single and is also the supervisor of the college’s newly-acquired apartment complex for male residents.