SYRACUSE – The Wawasee High School Athletic Department has announced Jon Everingham as its new varsity boys basketball coach. The 40-year-old Everingham replaces Steve Wiktorowski, who stepped down after three seasons to focus on his duties as Wawasee’s Athletic Director. Under Wiktorowski, the Warriors were 19-50, including a 2-21 record this past season. Wawasee is in the midst of a 35-game losing streak in the Northern Lakes Conference. Everingham is a 1994 graduate of Goshen High School, where he led the team in scoring with 14 points per game as a senior. Everingham, who this past season broadcast Wawasee games on Willie 103.5 FM, has been a varsity head coach for eight seasons and has a career record of 93-87. He was hired in 2006 at Argos, where his teams were 26-15 during his two seasons. Everingham then took over as the head coach at DeKalb, where he was 67-72 in six years, with a best record of 17-8 during the 2012-13 season. “We were close to hiring Jon the last time this position was open and are very happy we could finally make it happen this time,” Wiktorowski said in a release. “He has varsity experience rebuilding two different programs and we are again impressed with the overall system that he wants to incorporate. “He is known as a teacher of fundamentals and is well thought out on both ends of the floor. He relates well to players and will be a strong addition to our coaching staff as well. He already has roots in the community and we look forward to Jon having a long and successful tenure as our next head coach.” Everingham and his wife, Carly, have four children and live in Syracuse. Carly Everingham is a Wawasee graduate is a middle school teacher in the Wawasee School Corporation.
