South Ripley Varsity Basketball Coach Seve Beach Honored by IBCA

He has a 47-25 record in three seasons with the Raiders.

(Versailles, IN) - Seve Beach is the IBCA District 3 Coach of the Year after directing South Ripley to a 23-2 season that included an ORVC championship and the Southwestern (Hanover) Sectional. He has a 47-25 record in three seasons with the Raiders and a career mark of 90-97 in eight seasons as a head coach.

He has been named head coach for the South Team in the 2025 Indiana All-Stars Futures Game. He also has been named 2025 ORVC Coach of the Year and 2025 HBCA District 3 Co-Coach of the Year.

Beach started his coaching career in 2012-13 as a volunteer assistant at Shelbyville while he was completing his education at Franklin College. He then was an assistant at South Dearborn in 2020-21 and an assistant at East Central in 2021-22 before moving to South Ripley as head coach starting in 2022-23.

 A 2008 graduate of Forest Park, Beach was a two-year starter and two-time all-conference selection for teams that went 20-2 as a junior and 14-7 as a senior. He averaged 9.3 points, was named Evansville Courier & Press second-team all-Southwestern Indiana and was chosen to the 2008 HBCA East-West All-Star Classic as a senior.

He went to Purdue-Fort Wayne out of high school and played basketball for two seasons with the Mastodons. He transferred to Franklin College, playing basketball for two seasons with the Grizzlies and earning a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education in 2013.

Beach is in his third-year teaching health and physical education at South Ripley.