MEADVILLE, Pa. -- Eighth-year head men's basketball coach Bob Simmons announced on Thursday the addition of Josh Clemens to Allegheny College's staff for the upcoming 2023-24 season.

Clemens has spent the past decade at Paul Smith's College, located in New York's Adirondack State Park, both as a student-athlete and coach, including the last four years as the head men's basketball coach.

As members of the Yankee Small College Conference (YSCC) and United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA), the Bobcats reached the playoffs in three of Clemens' four years as head coach. The lone exception was an abbreviated two-game schedule played in 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, Clemens' Bobcats won 11 games in each of their three full seasons of competition and were ranked as high as No. 13 in the USCAA Division II Coaches Poll in 2021-22. In his final season at the helm at PSC, Clemens led the Bobcats to an upset over No. 2-seeded New Hampshire Technical Institute (NHTI) to advance to the YSCC semifinals.

Over the past two years, Clemens has mentored three YSCC All-Conference selections, and all three later received USCAA All-America accolades. Anthony Henson, who led the YSCC in scoring as a freshman and sophomore, repeated as a USCAA Second-Team All-America honoree in 2021-22 and 2022-23. Additionally, in March, senior guard Ryan Luzzi was crowned the USCAA Division II Men's Basketball Student-Athlete of the Year.

Off the court, Clemens served Paul Smith's in numerous leadership roles, such as the sports information director and coordinator for compliance and student-athlete development. He also spent one season as the head women's basketball coach in 2021-22, alongside his responsibilities with the men's program.

As a former Bobcat student-athlete, Clemens was named captain, the team's William F. Burns Sixth Man of the Year, and a USCAA Academic All-American as a junior. The following year, he transitioned to an assistant coaching role for both the men's and women's basketball teams. He was promoted to head men's basketball coach in June 2019.

A double major at Paul Smith's, Clemens graduated with degrees in entrepreneurship and natural resources management and policy in 2017. He completed his master's in education with a concentration in athletics administration from William Woods University in 2021.