GIRLS Coaches 2024-25 Season

Josh Snyder - Girls Head Coach

Coach Snyder has been coaching basketball for 17+ years and is in his second year with the Cincinnati Homeschool Trailblazers. In his first year with the Trailblazers, the 14U team earned a number 2 seed at the Regional Homeschool Tournament and only lost to the eventual Regional Champs. Prior to coaching with the Trailblazers, he was the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Cincinnati Christian University for three seasons. He led the Eagles to the Regional Finals and coached three All Conference players. He was also an Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at Wright State University for four years. He helped the team reach the Horizon League Finals. He coached four players who were all conference and would go on to play professional basketball in Europe. As a player at Cincinnati Christian University, he was a three-year starter and two-time captain. He helped lead the Eagles to a Regional Championship, Sub-National Championship and three National Tournament bids, finishing 5th, 6th and 7th in the nation. He was named 2nd team All-American and finished his career in the top ten in scoring with over 1400 points. Coach Snyder has a passion to coach basketball players to maximize their abilities and use them to glorify God. He loves the lessons that the game of basketball can teach, mainly that it takes a team effort to succeed and that everyone on the team has tremendous value to the team’s success. He has been married for 18 years and has 4 amazing kids

Steve Wheeler - Girls Assistant Coach
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Coach Steve Wheeler has been the girls varsity assistant coach for 5 years, and he has been coaching overall for 25+ years.  After coaching his 4 other children at various levels of basketball and other sports, his youngest daughter Anne played for the Homeschool Trailblazers while he was assistant coach, and now Anne plays for Cedarville University in Ohio.  He also coached for 4 years at Moeller High School.  Even though all of Steve’s children have graduated from High School, he still enjoys the Trailblazer players, coaches and parents, and he comments that he loves coaching to see the players faces light up when they achieve another key skill of the game.  Steve played varsity basketball and baseball at Moeller High School, and he played college basketball at Cincinnati State.  Steve has been married for 35 years and has his own team of 5 children.