Men's Basketball Coaching Staff
Head Coach Tim Ryan
Career Highlights
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Career record of 148-76 over seven seasons
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3-time Mid-Florida Conference Coach of the Year
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Six FCCAA State Tournament appearances
Career Record
Year |
Record |
Mid-Florida Conference |
Postseason |
26-7 |
6-2, runner-up |
State quarterfinalist: Lost to Northwest Florida State 74-61 | |
21-11 |
9-1, champion |
State semifinalist: Beat Broward 77-74; lost to Chipola 93-63 |
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2007-08 |
22-11 |
11-4, runner-up |
State quarterfinalist: Lost to Chipola, 73-62 |
2006-07 |
22-11 |
11-4, runner-up |
State runner-up: Beat Miami-Dade 81-66; Beat Hillsborough 75-71; Lost to Chipola 84-67 |
2005-06 |
23-8 |
13-2, champion |
State quarterfinalist: Lost to Tallahassee, 73-61 |
2004-05 |
17-13 |
3-7 |
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2003-04 |
17-15 |
7-3, co-champion |
State semifinalist: Beat Hillsborough 82-79; lost to Okaloosa-Walton 90-75 |
Biography
Tim Ryan enters his eighth season as the College of Central Florida Men’s Head Basketball Coach. In Ryan’s first seven seasons he guided the Patriots to three Mid-Florida Conference championships and six state tournament appearances with an average of 20 wins per season. Last year’s team won the Mid-Florida Conference and finished with a 21-11 overall record. Last year’s team competed in the state tournament for the fifthh year in a row, setting a school record. Coach Ryan has been honored with the Coach of the Year award for the Mid-Florida Conference three of the last six seasons.
Under Coach Ryan, eight players from last year’s team were named to the Mid-Florida All-Conference team. Ricardo Ratliffe and Rahshon Tabb were selected to the first team while Jeriel Henriquez, Josh Proctor and Adam Raye were named to the second team. Victor Jackson, Travis Johnson and Jeffery Neal were named honorable mention. Ricardo Ratliffe was named first team All-American, Mid-Florida Conference Player of the Year, and first team All-FCCAA and was a state all-tournament team selection. All 12 players last season were freshman and seven of those players are returning. Ryan is the Mid-Florida Conference chairman again for 2009-2010.
Coach Ryan came to CF after three highly successful seasons as the associate head coach at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, where he helped lead the Hawks to an average of 20 wins per season, two state tournament appearances, and a Suncoast Conference championship.
He began coaching high school basketball at Clearwater Central Catholic High School in 1993. He remained there four seasons coaching teams from the freshmen to the varsity level. In 1997, he became the head coach at St. Petersburg Catholic High School, where he led the team to their first championship in the Pinellas County Private School Tournament and won consecutive titles. Ryan also led his squad to its second and third appearance in the regional playoffs in the school’s history.
Coach Ryan has also been involved with AAU. As the head coach of the Clearwater Piranhas, he compiled a record of 256-54 over a seven-year period. The team won 12 AAU tournaments in which they had participated. The team finished second in the state at the 16U level. Under Coach Ryan, the Piranhas qualified for the national tournament all seven years the team was together. They were the only Florida team to accomplish this feat during that period. The past several years, Coach Ryan has run summer camps. Last year’s camps at CF were well-received and Coach looks forward to continuing Camp Patriot next summer. Coach Ryan has also coached at the prestigious Five-Star Basketball Camp in Pittsburgh, Penn., and Tallahassee, Fla.
He attended and played basketball at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., and at Power Memorial Academy in New York City. Coach Ryan also holds a Master’s Degree in Psychology from National - Louis University. Coach Ryan and his wife JoAnne have four children, Tim 23, Nicole, 22, Veronica, 17 and Tommy, 14.
Assistant Coach Tito Arias
Coach Tito Arias enters his second season as the Patriots’ assistant coach. His primary duties with the program include recruiting, scouting, strength training, on-floor coaching, academic advisement and game preparation.
A Miami native, Arias began his collegiate playing career in 2003 at Miami-Dade College. He then transferred to the University of Maine at Machias, where he spent two years as starting point guard and earned a bachelor’s degree in recreation and tourism management.
Arias transitioned quickly into coaching, spending a year as an assistant under UMM coach Brac Brady before joining the CF staff prior to the 2008-09 season. Arias has also spent the last several summers mentoring young athletes at the Hoops and Dreams Camp at UMM.
