Mike Piatt

(4-18-26) The Celina City Schools BOE is set to announce at Monday night’s meeting the hiring of Mike Piatt as its next head boys basketball coach.

Recently Piatt has been the head coach at Miami-Hamilton.

During his run-

2025-26 USCAA National Runner-Up

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Courtesy MU-Hamilton website– Piatt after playing and graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University, Piatt started his 40-year coaching career as an Assistant Coach at his Alma Mater. In 1987-88 he helped Ohio Wesleyan University to the NCAA Division III National Championship.

In 1989-90, Piatt became the Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach/Head Men’s Golf Coach at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. In 1990, he came back to Ohio as the Athletic Director/Head Men’s Basketball Coach at The Ohio State University Lima Campus. In that year he led OSU-Lima to the Ohio Regional Campus Conference Championship.

For the next twenty-nine years, Coach Piatt has been the head coach at Lehman Catholic, Miami Valley and New Knoxville High Schools. In 2007, he was named Southwest District Coach of the Year. He has also coached as an assistant at Chaminade Julienne and Tippecanoe.

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Piatt replaces Adam Johns who resigned in March after 6 seasons with the Bulldogs.