Former Villanova Star Named Coach At Carroll

Former Villanova University star Tom Ingelsby yesterday was named the new basketball coach at Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor.

Ingelsby, 40, replaces Chet Walsh, who resigned last month after three seasons at Carroll.

Ingelsby, who started as a sophomore shooting guard for Villanova's 1971 national championship runner-up team, played for the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA and the St. Louis Spirits of the American Basketball Association until 1975.

Ingelsby coached at Ursinus College for three seasons in the late 1970s, and was recently coaching a Catholic Youth Organization team of 11- and 12- year-olds when his old friend, Carroll athletic director Chris Scattergood, asked if he would be interested in the Carroll job.

"One thing led to another, and here I am," said Ingelsby, who works for an insurance company in Radnor. "I think it will be a good challenge, but it won't be an easy situation, obviously, since the team only won six games last year. Hopefully, I can get in and try to rebuild the program.

"I'd like to make us a fundamentally sound basketball team. Depending on the caliber of players, I'd like to play a 90-foot game, to run and to be aggressive on the defensive end."

In high school, Ingelsby starred at Cardinal O'Hara, one of Carroll's foes in the Catholic League's southern division.

"I guess I'll always be an O'Hara guy: I was a member of their only championship team," he said. "But I grew up on Catholic League courts, and I've followed the Catholic League for years since, so it'll be good to come back."

So what happens when Carroll and O'Hara meet in games next season?

"I hope O'Hara wins every game except two," Ingelsby said.

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Carroll officially lost its highly regarded football coach of nine years, Kevin Clancy, when the Swarthmore-Wallingford School District voted last night to hire him as the new coach at Strath Haven High School.

Clancy replaces Jim McFadden, who resigned in December. Clancy had played on the first football team at Carroll in 1967 and served as assistant coach 11 years before becoming head coach in 1982. Since then, four of Clancy's teams reached the Catholic League title game, but none won.