The 2011-12 season will mark the 8th season for Coach Heaney at Souhegan, and his 4th as Varsity Head Coach. 

This past season, the Sabers reached the NHIAA DII Final Four for the first time in seven years, as the #10 seed Souhegan defeated #7 and #2 on the road--the first time a Souhegan basketball team has won two road playoff games in the same season. 

In the past three years, the Sabers received 15 Academic All-State Awards, one First Team and one Second Team All-State, and seven All-Area Awards, as well as a NH Sportspage.com Runner-up Coach of the Year for Coach Heaney. 

Coach Heaney continues to be involved in coaching at the youth level in Amherst and serves on the Amherst Recreation Commission.  A graduate of Binghamton University, he lives in Amherst with wife Maria and children Erin, Kate, and Brian.

   
 
   

Mike Boehm takes over as Head JV boys coach for the Sabers after serving four years as Mike Heaney's top assistant. Mike is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Education and was a former head boys varsity basketball coach in Texas. During his tenure as a head coach, Mike's teams earned two Class A playoff trips, one as a district champion. Also during that time, Mike was an assistant coach and scout for the 1989 Class A Undefeated State Football Champion Thorndale (TX) Bulldogs. Mike has previously coached at all levels of basketball grades 1-12 and has 17 years of combined coaching experience.

Mike moved to Amherst in 2000 with his wife Wendy and they have two sons - Ryan, 12, and Jeffrey, 10.

 

 
 


Scott Kent is entering his third year coaching at Souhegan High School. Coach Kent is a lifelong hoops fanatic with many years of coaching including: SHS JV boys hoops, Manchester Suburban League boys basketball, Amherst Recreation basketball, Amherst Track Club, Amherst Pop Warner Football, and Amherst Youth Baseball. He also coached at the collegiate level as the jump coach for the University of New Hampshire Track and Field team.‬‪

Coach Kent played high school hoops for Class A Sanford, ME, where he was captain and MVP. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire and a masters from Colorado Technical College. He ran track for 4 years at UNH when he wasn't spending time in Lundholm being an intramural basketball gym rat.

He currently lives in Amherst with his wife of 21 years, Lisa, his son Tanner, and daughter Peyton.

   


 

 
   


 

 

 
 


Rob played high school basketball for Wilton High School and most recently played at the college level at Nashua Community College. He is in his first year as the 3rd Team Head Coach

 

 

Serving as Athletic Trainer for the Sabers for the last seven years is Rachel Shatney. Rachel is  enjoying caring for the athletes and their injuries.

 

Rachel is a New Hampshire native. She grew up outside of Keene and attended Keene High School. Afterwards, she received her Bachelors of Science from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. 


Following graduation from college, Rachel moved to upstate New York, where she worked for three years as the head athletic trainer for three high schools as well as working for a physical therapy clinic. Rachel is currently the head athletic trainer for Souhegan High School and spends mornings assisting physical therapists by working at the Center for Physical Therapy and Exercise clinic in Manchester.

 

Rachel belongs to the National Athletic Trainer's Association, is a certified and licensed athletic trainer as well as certified in CPR, First Aid, and AED through the National Heart Association.