Central High School boys basketball coach Todd Fergot has been selected as the new executive director of the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association.
Fergot takes over the spot currently held by interim executive director — and former longtime Central boys basketball coach — Ken Barrett, who took over leadership after the passing of Cuba City coach and high school basketball legend Jerry Petitgoue in June of 2025.
Fergot has been the Central coach since the 2004-2005 season, and his teams have won 395 games and lost 139 for a winning percentage of .740. The RiverHawks are 204-54 (.791) in MVC games during his tenure and have won or shared eight conference championships.
Central has qualified for six Division 2 state tournaments, played in two championship games and won the title in 2017.
The RiverHawks were 22-5 overall and 10-2 in the MVC last season, and Fergot will return the majority of that talent in another run for the top of the MVC next season.
Fergot was nominated by other individuals and accepted that nomination to enter the process.
“It isn’t anything I was planning on doing,” Fergot said on Wednesday. “You can nominate yourself or be nominated by others, and I did not nominate myself. They asked if I would be willing to go through the process, and I wasn’t sure what to do.”
Fergot first ran the idea by his family and then Central administration.
With support from both places, he pursued the chance to head up the association.
An initial list of nominees was cut to six, then four. The four finalists were interviewed, and the committee chose Fergot.
That puts him at the forefront of what the WBCA has established as its top three priorities — expansion of the state tournaments, implementing a shot clock and reversing the trend of dropping numbers in high school girls basketball programs.
“We did a very extensive survey, and to our knowledge it’s the most extensive survey an association has done,” Fergot said. “Other associations don’t go as far as extending the survey to (activities directors), principals and superintendents, but we did that.
“The data was significantly more positive, and those (topics) were what is important to them.”
