Warsaw girls basketball coach Lenny Krebs steps down after nine seasons, state title run

Lenny Krebs leaves Warsaw with the kind of résumé that changes what comes next. In nine seasons with the Lady Tigers, he went 162-58, never posted a losing season and guided Warsaw to five straight Northern Lakes Conference championships, capped by a 2025 postseason run that reached the Class 4A state championship game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

Krebs informed the Warsaw athletic department and his players on Wednesday morning, April 15, that he was stepping down as head coach. He spent 14 seasons as Goshen’s head coach before taking over at Warsaw, and his run in Lake City ended with him second in program history in both wins, at 162, and games coached, at 220. Only Will Weinhorst sits ahead of him in both categories, with 316 wins and 409 games coached.

The timing matters because this is not a coach chasing another opportunity. Krebs told his players, “I am not leaving to coach anywhere else,” and said he was stepping away because he could no longer devote the time the program requires. In his resignation letter, he said basketball had given him joy, opportunity and personal growth for more than 40 years, and that after prayer and conversations with family, it was time to move on.

What Warsaw inherits is not a rebuild. It is a program that spent much of the 2025-26 season ranked No. 1 in the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association all-classification poll and put together the school’s lone sectional title under Krebs before powering through South Bend Washington in regional play, McCutcheon in semistate and previously unbeaten Hamilton Southeastern in the semistate final. The season ended against Lawrence North in the state title game, but the path there confirmed Warsaw belonged in the state’s top tier.

Krebs’ exit also closes a stretch that produced elite individual talent. Warsaw has had three Indiana All-Stars during his tenure, with Brooke Winchester selected in 2025 and Brooke Zartman and Joslyn Bricker chosen for the 2026 Indiana Girls’ All-Star squad. The girls’ All-Star team is limited to 13 senior players statewide, and Warsaw was the only school to place two players on the 2026 roster.

Warsaw now begins the search for its seventh girls basketball coach in program history. Whoever gets the job will inherit a program with recent hardware, a state runner-up finish and expectations that no longer stop at sectional week.