Dave Klatsky

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Dave Klatsky
Current position
TitleAssistant coach
Team Florida
Conference Southeastern Conference
Playing career
1999–2003 Penn
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2007–2011 Stevens Tech (assistant)
2011–2022 Colgate (assistant)
2022–2025 NYU
2025–present Florida (assistant)
Head coaching record
Overall68–16 (.810)
Tournaments6–3 (NCAA Division III)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • 2 UAA regular season (2024, 2025)
Awards
  • 2 UAA Coach of the Year (2024, 2025)

David Klatsky is an American college basketball coach who is an assistant coach of the Florida Gators men's basketball team. He was previously the head coach of the NYU Violets.

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Early life and playing career

Klatsky grew up in Holmdel Township, New Jersey and attended Holmdel High School. [1] He was named first-team All-Shore Conference as a senior as Holmdel won its second straight state championship. [2] He played college basketball for the Penn Quakers. [3] As a sophomore, he set a single-season record for assists with 162. [4] Klatsky was selected to represent the United States in the 2001 Maccabiah Games, but decided not to participate due to safety concerns rising from the Second Intifada. [5]

Coaching career

After graduating from Penn, Klatsky worked in Manhattan as an equity trader. He began his coaching career as an assistant at Stevens Institute of Technology in 2007 as an assistant while still holding his day job. [6] Klatsky was then hired as an assistant at Colgate by his former Penn teammate, Matt Langel, in 2011. [7]

Klatsky was hired as the head coach at NYU on May 17, 2022. [8] NYU went 18–8 in his first season and earned an at-large bid to the 2023 NCAA Division III tournament. [9] In his second season, Klatsky coached the Violets to a share of the University Athletic Association regular season title, the program's first in 30 years. [7] The Violets won the UAA outright the following season. [10]

Klatsky left NYU to take an assistant coaching position with the Florida Gators shortly after the team won the national championship. [11]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
NYU (University Athletic Association)(2022–present)
2022–23NYU 18–87–7 NCAA Division III First Round
2023–24NYU 21–610–4T–1st NCAA Division III Second Round
2024–25NYU 29–213–11st NCAA Division III Runner-up
NYU:68–16 (.810)30–12 (.714)
Total:68–16 (.810)

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

Personal life

Klatsky's brother-in-law, Kevin Hovde, is the head basketball coach at Columbia. [12]

References

  1. ↑ "Shore's greatest hoops players of the 90s". Asbury Park Press . February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
  2. ↑ Pierce, Les (April 13, 2021). "Former Holmdel Basketball Standout Dave Klatsky Makes Second Coaching Appearance in NCAA Tournament". The Holmdel Journal. Retrieved February 12, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Former Penn, Temple assistant Matt Langel has Colgate winning like never before". The Philadelphia Inquirer . March 6, 2019. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
  4. ↑ Bodnar, Jason (November 19, 2001). "Short in stature, Klatsky comes up big". The Daily Pennsylvanian . Retrieved February 18, 2025.
  5. ↑ Feng, Kenny (July 5, 2001). "No Games for Penn athletes". The Daily Pennsylvanian . Retrieved February 20, 2025.
  6. ↑ O'Neil, Dana (June 2, 2011). "New Faces, New Places: Matt Langel". ESPN.com . Retrieved February 12, 2025.
  7. 1 2 Federman, Sam (December 28, 2024). "Dave Klatsky is leading a renaissance at NYU". MidMajorMadness.com. SB Nation . Retrieved February 12, 2025.
  8. ↑ "OFFICIAL: Klatsky named Head Coach at NYU". HoopDirt.com. May 17, 2022. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
  9. ↑ Kussoy, Howie (February 2, 2024). "The No. 1 team in the country plays on Bleecker Street: How NYU basketball is building national title ambitions". New York Post . Retrieved February 20, 2025.
  10. ↑ "Holmdel's Dave Klatsky has NYU basketball in the D-3 national title hunt". The Record . March 11, 2025. Retrieved March 11, 2025.
  11. ↑ Hall, Graham (April 15, 2025). "Florida hiring Dave Klatsky to fill vacant assistant coach position". 247Sports.com . Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  12. ↑ Carino, Jerry (April 30, 2025). "Holmdel's Dave Klatsky steps onto college basketball's biggest stage as Florida assistant". Asbury Park Press . Retrieved September 24, 2025.
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