In his six seasons as the head coach at Wesley College, Jerry Kobasa has rebuilt the program at his alma mater.  A long-time respected fixture in Delaware sports, Kobasa took a team that had just two winning seasons in 17 years before his arrival and taken them to the NCAA Tournament in each of the twice in the last three seasons.

Kobasa's teams have produced the school's three winningest Division III seasons, an All-American, a conference player of the year, two conference rookies of the year, four ECAC All-Star selections and eight all-region honors.  The Wolverines have had a first team all-conference player in five of his six seasons and his tenure also marks as the winningest six-year period in the program's DIII history.

His 2010-11 team was ranked as high as No. 2 in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional rankings and reached the CAC Championship game for the third straight year.  Paul Reynolds and Darrell Johnson earned All-CAC honors and Reynolds was named all-region by D3hoops.com.  With 18 wins, the team tied the 2008-09 squad for the second most in the Division III era.  In the process, Kobasa was named the CAC Co-Coach of the Year.

The Wolverines continued their journey to the top with a Division III school record 19 wins and second straight NCAA Tournament appearance.  Wesley also featured the CAC Rookie of the Year in Paul Reynolds, who finished among the national leaders in field goal percentage and two All-CAC selections.

In 2008-09, the team posted 18 wins and Wesley's first conference championship in men's basketball in 21 years, resulting in the program's first bid to the NCAA Championships.  The Wolverines led the conference in scoring average, steals, turnover margin, assist/turnover ratio, offensive rebounds, and three-point field goals.  Rashawn Johnson was named the CAC Player of the Year after leading the conference in scoring and was named both all-region and All-American.

The 2007-2008 season marked the first year of play in the CAC for the Wolverines. The team finished with an impressive 9-7 mark in conference action and led the CAC in both steals and turnover margin. Under his tutelage, Rashawn Johnson earned first team all-conference and was named to a pair of all-region teams after finishing 16th in the nation in scoring.

In each of his first two seasons, Kobasa helped lead the Wolverines to consecutive trips into the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference (PAC) Tournament, including a trip to the finals in 2006, resulting in a bid to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Southern Division Tournament that same year.

Kobasa compiled a 249-130 record in 16 years as a head coach at Sussex Tech (182-57) and Smyrna High School. A 1969 graduate of Wesley and member of the College's Athletic Hall of Fame, Kobasa was named Delaware Coach of the Year by the Delaware Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association in 1979 and 2004.

Kobasa's athletic resume is impressive. After a star-studded football and baseball career at

Wesley, he served as offensive back and quarterback coach at both Wesley and Delaware State University before accepting basketball and football coaching positions at Smyrna High School. Coach Kobasa has been associated with prominent national coaches such as Bob Huggins (West Virginia University), Mike Brey (University of Notre Dame), Frank Martin (Kansas State University), and Greg Jackson (Delaware State University).

In 1995, he became the head basketball coach at Sussex Tech. In 2004, Coach Kobasa was named the State Coach of the Year for the second time. He has earned Henlopen Conference Coach of the Year honors three times and has been selected as the coach of a team in the Blue-Gold High School All-Star Game three times. At Sussex Tech, he has won four Henlopen Conference Northern Division crowns and four Henlopen Conference Championships. He guided the Ravens to the state tournament every year and earned two final four finishes. His teams ranked in the top 10 in the state final basketball rankings in eight of his ten seasons.

Inducted into the Wesley College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001, Kobasa is also a former member of the Wesley Alumni Association Board of Directors. In addition to chairing the Board of Directors of DIAA, he has been a member of the Board of the Blue/Gold All-Star Basketball game for seven years, is the former chair of the Henlopen Conference Boys Basketball Committee, and is a member of the State Girls' High School Basketball Tournament Committee.

Kobasa was reappointed to the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association by the Governor of Delaware as a public member in June of 2007, and is chairman of the association for the 2007-2008 year. He is a former long-time member of the Delaware Secondary Schools Athletic Association Board of Directors (the organization that preceded DIAA), the Milford Boys and Girls Club Board, and is a former President of the Henlopen Conference and the Henlopen Basketball Coaches Association. He is also a former President of the Delaware Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association.