Mike Koscinski

Head Varsity Coach

Boys Varsity Basketball

In March 2015, Riverside High School announced that Mike Koscinski will be the Rams first Head Boys' Basketball Coach. The Rams took a few years to get established and made their mark in 2019 with a District Tournament Championship, Regional Championshp and their first State Tournament appearance which ended a dream playoff run in a thrilling double overtime loss to eventual Champion GW-Danville.  The 2020 Rams were injury riddled yet overcame those challenges and made a late surge to the regional championship game knocking off Freedom High School for the third time that season to secure their second State Tournament appearance.  The 2021 Rams overachieved in a shortened Covid Season losing to eventual *State Champion Stone Bridge High School.

Koscinski brings a broad variety of experiences having coached at the Freshmen, JV and Varsity levels in Massachusetts and New York prior to moving to Loudoun County in 2005.  His experience spans 21 years in interscholastic athletics, including two years as an Athletic Director in Vermont.

Koscinski most recently comes to Riverside from Stone Bridge High School where he spent this past season as an Assistant Coach, working under former JMU Assistant Coach, Corey Stitzel.  The Bulldogs posted a program best 23-3 record and won the Conference 14 regular season and tournament championships.

Coach Koscinski brings previous Head Coaching experience to the Rams bench as he served six years as the Head Coach at Park View High School.  He was named 2009-10 Dulles District Division III Coach of the Year and was also honored by the Loudoun County F.C.A. as Coach of the Year in 2014 for work within the school community.  While at Park View, Koscinski's teams participated in the Athlife Coaches in the Classroom program emphasizing academics.

Koscinski experienced the start-up of a basketball program while serving as the Assistant Coach at Briar Woods during the program’s first three seasons.  Over the past twenty years, he has coached at various summer camps primarily on the East Coast, including working for the late Don Meyer at the Lipscomb University Bison Basketball Camps.

Koscinski is a Physical Education teacher at Newton-Lee Elementary School which will be in the Riverside High School cluster.  He has been involved at the youth basketball level having coached the past two seasons in the Ashburn Youth Basketball League and currently coaches for the Loudoun Xpress AAU basketball program based in Ashburn.