The 2024-25 boys high school basketball season ended with three longtime head coaches of Arlington teams having a combined lifetime victory total of 1,304 games.
Of the three, Joe Wootten of the Bishop O’Connell Knights has the most career wins with 558. Those are the most victories by any O’Connell boys basketball coach in program history.
The Wakefield Warriors’ Tony Bentley is the next on the list with 395 wins. He hopes to surpass the 400 milestone early next season. A midseason stretch when Wakefield lost five of six games kept the coach from reaching that total this year.
Bentley trails the late Bob Veldran (443 career victories) as Wakefield’s winningest all-time head coach.
Washington-Liberty High head coach Bobby Dobson has 351 career victories.
The career win totals for all three current coaches all have come at the schools they currently coach.
This past season, O’Connell had the best record of the three Arlington teams with a 23-10 mark and second-place finish in the Division I private-school state tournament. Wakefield was 12-13 and a young Washington-Liberty squad 6-18.
The other boys head coach of a high school team in Arlington is Joe Keimig of the Yorktown Patriots. He has some 70 career victories, coming as Yorktown’s coach for two years after coaching several seasons at Falls Church High School.
