Jeremy Bialek coached basketball for almost a quarter century. As a head coach, he won 440 games, the NCHBC National Championship, two NCHBC Midwest Regional crowns, six ICBA state titles and seven conference championships while also producing a NCHBC Maravich Award winner (National Player of the Year), a NCHBC National Defensive Player of the Year, 14 NCHBC All-Americans and 20 players who went on to play in college, with four going to NCAA Division I schools, one playing in the NBA and two playing professionally overseas.
Bialek spent his last 18 seasons as the head coach at Indianapolis Homeschool. During his tenure with the Wildcats, his teams compiled 14 straight winning seasons and advanced to seven National Final Fours. At the close of this past season, Bialek stood 15th in career wins amongst all active boys’ high school coaches in Indiana and won more state titles than any other coach in the history of the ICBA state tournament with six. His squads have also been listed at the top of the nation’s high schools in rankings/stats. In 2018-2019, his Cats ended the season ranked in the CBS Sports MaxPreps National Top 250 and as No. 8 in Indiana. Bialek’s 2017-2018 team finished the season as the second best three-point shooting high school team in the nation, making 9.8 per contest. The 2014-2015 squad averaged 85.5 points per game finishing 12th in scoring among all high schools in America.
He began his career at Perry Meridian High School in Indianapolis as a varsity assistant from 1995-2000. In his five campaigns, the Falcons won a sectional title and finished as Marion County runners-up twice. He then spent the 2000-2001 season as a varsity assistant at Fayetteville-Manlius High School in Syracuse, N.Y. before coming back to Indiana.
Bialek attended high school at Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse, earning varsity letters in basketball, cross country and track. He played basketball under New York State Hall of Fame Coach Buddy Wleklinski, where he was part of CBA’s 1991 Sectional title. He then earned his B.S. in Telecommunication Arts from Butler University in 1996 and an M.S. in Media Management from the Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Communications in 2001.
Bialek is the son of former Utica College men’s basketball coach Joseph Bialek. He and his wife Julie have 11 kids (Ali, Jair, JD, Jonah, Annalisa, Jordan, Jacob, Judah, Josiah, Jamin and Amelia).
