Steve Hobson, who coached basketball at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac before spending 29 years as head men's basketball coach at Montgomery College, was inducted into Newberry College's inaugural Hall of Master Coaches class on Thursday, July 17.

Hobson is one of seven alumni honored in the new hall, which recognizes Newberry graduates who achieved excellence coaching at the high school, college, or professional level. Fellow inductees include Joey Batson, Reed Charpia Jr., Jerry Faulkner, John Smith, Dusty Triplett, and Horace Turbeville. The South Carolina college announced the class on its athletics Facebook page on Monday, July 14.

A Bethesda native, Hobson played junior college basketball at Montgomery College in 1969 and 1970, setting a single-game rebounding record of 29. He transferred to Newberry College, where he led the team in rebounding during his senior season of 1971-72 with 410, a total that still ranks seventh in program history.

After graduating in 1972, Hobson returned to Potomac to coach Churchill's boys basketball team for two seasons. He became head men's basketball coach at Montgomery College's Germantown campus in 1981, eventually coaching at the Rockville campus as well.

Over 29 years at Montgomery College, Hobson compiled 645 victories, 12 National Junior College Athletic Association Region 20 championships, and 11 NJCAA national tournament appearances, according to the Newberry Observer. His 1994 squad finished third at the NJCAA Division 3 national tournament. He retired in 2009 as the winningest coach in Montgomery College history.

Hobson placed hundreds of players into four-year programs, according to the Newberry Observer, including Jerome Williams, who went on to star at Georgetown and became a first-round NBA Draft pick of the Detroit Pistons in 1996. Hobson also spent nearly four decades teaching in Montgomery County Public Schools.

Known for a tough man-to-man pressing style, Hobson reflected on his coaching philosophy at a December 2018 tribute event at Montgomery College's Rockville campus: "Making sure the kids graduate and move on to a four-year school is really what I'm all about. Not one particular thing. Not one particular national championship."