Napp enters his second season as assistant coach of the men's basketball program for 2024-25.
To finish the 2023-24 season, the Mounties to their first playoff appearance since the 2012-13 season after his most wins and conference wins during his tenure. Saraj Ali was named to the All-PSAC Second Team and the team picked up key victories along the way. The Mounties defeated Shippensburg twice, their first season sweep since 2013-14 and first win at the Raiders since 2014. The team also grabbed two overtime victories and reached the century mark in a game for the first time since 2022.
Napp spent the 2022-23 season as the head coach of the Towanda High School boys varsity basketball coach, after spending the 2019-20 season as a volunteer assistant under Szentesy with the Mountaineers.
Napp has been working in the high school varsity ranks for over two decades, spending five seasons with Towanda, building the program into a two-time NTL Champion, three-time District IV Tournament participant, while making the Pennsylvania State Tournament once. Napp was a two-time NTL Coach of the Year and was named 2013 Daily Review All-Winter Sports Coach of the Year.
Napp was a volunteer assistant at Chapman High School in Inman, S.C. in 2000-03.
Napp has taken on major leadership roles locally as the Vice-President of the Towanda Education Foundation Board, Board Director of the Towanda Youth Basketball Association and as a youth coach in soccer and baseball.
Graduate of Towanda High School, Napp was a three-time Pennsylvania All-State boys basketball team selection, remains the NTL East and Towanda High School all-time leading scorer with 2,279 points, graduated as Pennsylvania’s 33rd all-time leading scorer.
Napp graduated with a bachelor’s degree in health and exercise science from Gettysburg College in 2000, before earning his Doctorate of Chiropractic from Life University and Sherman College of Chiropractic.
Napp was a four-year starter on the Gettysburg College men’s basketball team.
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