Terry Maczko is entering his 12th season as the head coach of the men’s basketball program at Baltimore City Community College (BCCC). Maczko has been a leading figure in the Metro Baltimore area with a 20+ year coaching career that includes stints as the head coach at the Community College of Baltimore County at Essex and Edgewood High School. At each stop, Maczko has taken ailing basketball programs and transformed them into championship-caliber programs on and off the court. Since the 2009-2010 season, Maczko and his Panther squads have averaged over 20 wins a season that includes 2 MD JUCO Regular Season Titles, 2 MD JUCO Tournament Championships, and 3 NJCAA Region Championships. Additionally, the 2011-2012 team had 25 wins and finished #6 in the country in NJCAA Division II. The following year, he led the Panthers to NJCAA Division I where they continued their winning ways.
Over his first eleven seasons at BCCC, Maczko has an overall record of 196-134 with 102 wins and 63 losses in the Maryland JUCO Conference. In the 15-team MD JUCO conference, the Panthers have finished no worse than 3rd over the last 6 seasons. They have shown their conference strength with at least 10 conference wins each of the last 7 years. His post-season record with the Panthers is an amazing 31-16 with 5 different post-season Championships. The Panthers have reached the regional championship game of the NJCAA National Tournament 7 of the last 8 seasons. The rebuild took hold during the 2009-10 season when the Panthers went 13-3 over the second half of the season and made their run to the Maryland JUCO Championship with first and second round wins over the College of Southern Maryland (87-76) and Cecil College (80-75). The men secured a 68-61 win over Frederick CC in the semifinals before defeating Montgomery-Germantown 65-57 for their first MD JUCO Championship in 12 seasons. Maczko then took the Panthers to the 2010 national tournament with victories over the College of Southern Maryland (105-80) and Beaver County (85-66) before falling 76-73 to Cecil College in the regional championship game.
In 2011-2012, Maczko established BCCC as a national power with a sweep of the Maryland JUCO tournament and the NJCAA Division II Region Championships. From there, the Panthers moved to the national championships in Danville, IL. An opening victory over Erie CC 89-84 in the Sweet 16 was bittersweet as the Panthers suffered key injuries to two starters that was significant in their 85-64 loss to the College of Rhode Island in the Elite 8. BCCC rebounded to hand Johnson County (KS) a 74-65 defeat in the next game to finish #6 in the country. The Panthers moved to NJCAA Division I status in the 2012-2013 season where BCCC made an immediate splash with 21 wins before falling 94-80 to Hagerstown in their first NJCAA Division I Region Championship appearance. Maczko and the Panthers used that experience as a stepping stone as they proceeded to win back-to-back Region 20 Championships the following 2 seasons with a 80-79 win over Hagerstown in 2014 and 81-80 over Harford in 2015.
The key to Maczko’s success at Baltimore City CC has been the recruitment of high quality student-athletes. Maczko has had 7 NJCAA All-Americans while at BCCC as well as 19 Maryland JUCO All-Conference and 25 NJCAA All-Region 20 performers. The Panthers have achieved excellent academic success with 83% of his freshman recruits having graduated from BCCC. Since taking over the Panther program, Maczko has sent 44 student-athletes to four-year schools including Jamar Greene (Boise State), Bakari Smith (UMBC), John Majors (Presbyterian), Terry Harris (Coppin State), Joe Hugley (Central Connecticut), and Chas Brown (SUNY Albany) among others to NCAA Division I programs. All told, Coach Maczko has sent 13 players to NCAA Division I, 23 players to NCAA Division II, 7 to NCAA Division III, and 1 to NAIA Division I institutions.
In April 2010, Maczko was named interim Assistant Director of Athletics and later that year appointed as the Associate Director of Athletics. As Associate AD, Maczko is responsible for all scheduling and compliance for each of BCCC’s athletic teams. In addition, he oversees the use of the PE Center for any outside events as well as helping to coordinate any maintenance and upgrades to the facility. Other duties include academic monitoring and game day operations. He also supports the needs of the institution at all conference and region Athletic Director meetings.
The success of Coach Maczko’s BCCC Panthers has not gone unnoticed as he was named Maryland JUCO Coach of the Year in 2010 and 2014. He was also recognized by the MD JUCO Coaches Association as Coach of the Year in 2012. In 2012, 2014, and 2015 Maczko was named the NJCAA Region 20 Coach of the Year. He was named District 16 Coach of the Year in 2012 as well. Maczko has also served as the MD JUCO Coaches Association President from 2010-2017. In that role, he oversaw the selection of the MD JUCO All-Conference teams and the sophomore All-Star game. Maczko was also elected and has served on the MD JUCO Conference Board for the last 3 years.
At CCBC Essex, Maczko spent his first three seasons as an assistant to BCCC coaching legend and Hall of Famer, Jerry Phipps. After Phipps retired in 1991, Maczko took over the reins at Essex and sent teams to five national tournaments in eight seasons including two appearances in the regional semi-finals. While at Essex, Maczko sent over 20 student-athletes to four-year programs to further their academic and basketball careers. Additionally, he served as the Vice President of the Maryland JUCO Men’s Basketball Coaches Association from 1996-2001.
In 2000-2001, Maczko founded and directed the Maryland Elite/Maryland Premier AAU basketball programs which grew to 18 boys and girls teams in age groups 9U-19U. In 2005, his 15U team, which ultimately had three Division I players, including his son Michael, won their pool and made it to the Elite 8 at the AAU National tournament. In 2009, his 17U team advanced to the Maryland AAU state championship game. Overall, his Maryland Elite/Maryland Premier programs sent over 30 student-athletes to play college basketball.
Maczko moved to Edgewood High School in 2004, and in just two seasons, Maczko overhauled the boy’s basketball program through his philosophy of team building and shared accountability as he turned a struggling 6-17 squad rife with academic suspensions into an undefeated league champion. Through his leadership, the Edgewood overall team GPA was raised to 3.1. In his two seasons at Edgewood, 8 of 10 seniors went on to four-year institutions. In 2006, Maczko was named Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference Coach of the Year and Harford County Coach of the Year by the Baltimore Sun.
Maczko earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science and mathematics from the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1983 where he played a season for legendary coach Jerry Welsh. In 1999, Maczko earned a Master of Science degree in Physical Education and Exercise Science with a concentration in Sports Management from Western Maryland College (now known as McDaniel College).
Before changing careers to coach full-time, Maczko also enjoyed a highly successful 25-year career as an engineer and senior staff member at Lockheed Martin where he was named Engineer of the Year in 1998. Maczko also supervised the Team of the Year, and received the President’s Award in 2008, the highest award in Lockheed Martin, for his efforts as the Director of MS2 Business Enterprise Initiatives. Additionally, Maczko is a 24 year member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).
Maczko is married to his wife Martha, a teacher in Harford County. They have 3 children. Nicholas is employed by T. Rowe Price in Owings Mills, MD. Michael is an Assistant Basketball Coach at Post University, a NCAA Division II institution, in Waterbury, CT. Their daughter Anastasia is a registered dietician with Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, NY.
