Men's Basketball - Equestrian

Associate Head Coach Toby Brown
Men’s Basketball
2007-08 coaching staff
Assistant Coach Kevin Downey
Well recognized in the area college
basketball scene for nearly two decades,
Toby Brown is in his 11th season with
the Golden Flyers and his seventh as
the team’s associate head coach. He
came to Nazareth in 1997 after seven
auspicious seasons as an assistant under
Bob McVean at Rochester Institute of
Technology.
A native of Waterloo, Brown helped R.I.T.
to four 20-win seasons and three NCAA
tournament appearances. In 1996-97,
the Tigers finished 24-4 and reached the
Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.
During Brown’s time at Nazareth, the Golden Flyers have made
four post-season appearances and won one conference title. He
helped the Golden Flyers to a 22-6 record in 2002-03, which
included the championship of the JPMorgan Chase Scholarship
Tournament and an appearance in the championship game of the
ECAC Upstate Tournament.
Brown was a standout player at Waterloo High, then played for two
seasons at Alfred State before graduating with a degree in physical
education from Cortland. He currently teaches health and physical
education at the Norman Howard School in Rochester.
Kevin Downey, former basketball standout
at Canisius College, joined the men’s
basketball staff as a part-time assistant
coach in December of 2006.
Downey completed his college career
2005-06 as Canisius’ sixth all-time
scorer with 1,583 points. He started
every game of his four-year career (116
overall) and ranks second all-time in
three-point field goals made with 185.
He earned an undergraduate degree in
Biology and a Master’s degree in Business
Adminstration.
A native of Livonia, N.Y., Downey was a scholastic standout at
Livonia High, where he played for his father, the late Tom Downey.
As a senior at Livonia in 2000-01, Downey was the all-Greater
Rochester Co-Player of the Year in leading the Bulldogs to the
Section Five Class B title and a 23-1 overall record.
Downey’s mother, Linda Downey, was Nazareth’s women’s
volleyball coach for four seasons (1999-2002) and has been the
coach at the University of Rochester for the past five seasons. His
sister, Christa, was a three-time first-team All-American in volleyball
for Nazareth from 2000 through 2002.
Assistant Coach Dick O’Toole
After 33 years of teaching and coaching
in the Rochester City School District, Dick
O’Toole joined the Nazareth staff as a
part-time assistant coach in 2003.
O’Toole retired from high school coaching
at the end of the 2002-03 season after
compiling a career basketball record of
315-268 as varsity coach at Edison Tech.
Included in that run were three City-
Catholic League titles, two Section Five
titles, and a trip to the New York state
Class A Final Four in 1999. He was named
Section Five Class A Coach of the Year in
1997 and 1998.
In addition to coaching basketball, O’Toole was the varsity baseball
coach at Edison for 18 seasons. He also has coached football in
the City School District at various levels.
A graduate of SUNY Brockport, O’Toole resides in Rochester with
his wife, Maribeth. They are the parents of a son, Brendan, a 1997
Nazareth grad, and a daughter, Megan.
Sophomore | Corey McAdam was the Empire 8 Rookie of the
Year in 2006-07.
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