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Word From the Weiss

I asked men’s assistant basketball and men’s and women’s golf coach Gabe Bubon when his last day off during the school year was and all he did was laugh.

Conveniently, as he tried to remember, his Bank Tower office phone rang.

It’s all in a day’s work for Bubon, who for five years has worked from September straight through May.

All of this almost did not happen for Bubon, who departed Point Park University as a student and finished his basketball career at Brewton-Parker College in Mount Vernon, Ga. After not receiving any overseas offers, Bubon called men’s basketball coach Bob Rager asking if he needed any help for next season. Rager, remembering Bubon left Point Park before his eligibility was up, quickly said no.

It was Sam Kosanovich, then a men’s basketball assistant, and now Student Center Director who first suggested Bubon to Rager.

“Gabe had the qualities of a player that was very knowledgeable and consumed by the game,” Kosanovich said. “When Coach Rager was looking for another assistant, I told him ‘why not Gabe Bubon'? This was an opportunity he jumped on and he’s never looked back. He’s been everything we thought he would be.”

Bubon credits Kosanovich for his being at Point Park and after the other assistants left, Bubon, along with Rager, led the school to a 29-2 2009 season.

Point Park participated in men’s golf from 1967-1972 but it was Associate Vice President of Student AffairsKeith Paylo along with Director of Athletics Dan Swalga who brought golf back and asked Bubon to coach both teams.

Bubon admits that he was unsure of what he was doing at first; however, he embraced the challenge and the results show. The teams originally placed last in every tournament it entered, but now both have become among the best in the city.

There are 30 student-athletes Bubon mentors and during the school year, he gives advice not only on the course and court but in the classroom and in life as well. It is his students’ belief in him that he views as important.

Bubon’s non-stop mentality has served him well in his return to Point Park and whether it is practice, the weight room or office, he gives everything he has into the current task, his way of thanking those that trusted him.

“Every day I wake up, I’m glad to be at Point Park,” Bubon said. “I never thought it would be like this.”

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