Hank Plona

Hank Plona (born September 30, 1985) is an American basketball coach who is the current head coach at Western Kentucky. He has previously coached at Providence, Arkansas–Fort Smith, Indian Hills Community College and South Plains College. Early life Plona grew up in Avon, Connecticut, and graduated from Avon High School in 2003. He then attended Providence College in Rhode Island, where he received a bachelor's degree in 2007 and master's degree two years later.

Coaching career Plona started his coaching career at Providence, serving from 2007 to 2009 as a student manager and graduate assistant. He then assisted the Arkansas–Fort Smith Lions in the 2009–10 season and followed it up with one year as an assistant in 2010–11 at Indian Hills Community College.

Plona was hired as the head coach at Indian Hills in 2015. He served eight years there and had an 86.6% winning percentage, helping them win the conference regular season title eight straight times, the conference postseason championship six times and appear in the NJCAA Tournament in all but one of his seasons. After one season as an assistant, he was announced as the team's new head coach on April 2, 2024.

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