Mike Szabo Returns to FWCD

Mike Szabo returned to FWCD in 2025, having previously led the Falcon boys basketball team to the 2001 Southwest Preparatory Conference Division I Championship and earning Fort Worth Star-Telegram Private School Coach of the Year honors.

A New England native with over 30 years of head coaching experience, including a stint at Northwestern University, Szabo is one of the nation’s most successful coaches over the last three decades. He owns a 665-256 career record and is a five-time State Coach of the Year. At Trinity High School in Kentucky, Szabo amassed over 500 wins, captured two state titles (2012, 2019), and transformed Trinity into a powerhouse high school basketball program in the state. Szabo’s team was selected as the MaxPreps Kentucky Team of the Decade from 2010-19.

After arriving in Kentucky in 2001 to a program that had never reached the state tournament, Szabo made an immediate impact. In his first season, he helped the team advance further than it ever had before in the local Louisville Invitational Tournament. By year three, his team reached the state tournament for the first time in school history, and, in his fourth season, the team climbed to the No. 1 ranking in the state of Kentucky.

Szabo has coached three NBA second-round draft picks and helped over 40 players earn college basketball scholarships.