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Brookfield Academy coach Pat Clarey reaches 300 career victories

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Brookfield Academy boys basketball coach Pat Clarey, a one-time Wauwatosa police officer and Town of Lisbon police chief in a “past life,” often reflects on the impact one’s life can have on others.

One of his favorite questions in his supervisory police roles, as well as a brief stint with the Washington Wizards conducting player interviews for the NBA Combine, is “How would you call your shot?”

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Or, as he put it more frankly, “How would you like to die?”

The answer, whether from a basketball prospect or a police officer applicant, would be revealing of one’s character, according to Clarey.

“On the [police chief] job, we’d get some guys that would say, ‘Oh, I’d like to go out in a blaze of glory in a gun fight in a bank robbery,’ ” Clarey said, which was often met with a courteous dismissal of “thanks for applying.”

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Slinger boys basketball defeats Homestead, 84-60, Feb. 10

Homestead’s Landon Hinterstocker (3) breaks past Slinger’s Bryson Fogle (5) during the game at Slinger High School in Slinger, Wisconsin, Feb. 10, 2026. Slinger won the game, 84-60.

His own answer? Hit by a bus full of nuns in front of Sacred Heart Church.

He recalls asking the same thing of promising Kansas Jayhawks product Frank Mason III in a pre-draft interview, and hearing an answer to the effect of, “I guess I would like to be asleep, surrounded by family, holding my son.”

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“That screams ‘high-character kid,’ ” Clarey said.

Clarey reached 300 career coaching wins with Brookfield Academy’s 68-38 victory Feb. 11, a milestone with its origins in listening, its process in refining high-character young adults and its byproduct a 300-168 career record. It was not always that way, though, as Clarey admits when reflecting on his tenure as first a girls basketball coach with Brookfield Academy from 2007 to 2010 before moving over to coach his eldest son Sean prior to the 2010-11 season.

“When I first started out, I wanted to be the next Bobby Knight. I was a transactional coach where it was the carrot and the stick, and I’m gonna be a tough SOB, and it’s just the wrong approach,” Clarey said.

Over the course of his career, Clarey has rounded out his annual high school obligations with experiences such as serving as a G League assistant coach and working with the NBA Players Association’s Five-Star Summer Basketball Camp. In those experiences, Clarey said he has had the chance to pick the brains of top coaches in the sport.

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“My roommates have been [current University of Alabama head coach] Nate Oats and Fran McCaffery at Iowa. I’m not gonna go out and reinvent the wheel. I’ve been around the best guys and I pay attention and I listen,” Clarey said. “If you pay attention, you will learn this game at a high level. If you are humble enough to know that you know absolutely nothing, and that’s how I went into everything. … I just paid attention to everyone who had gone before me and what they did.”

Brookfield Academy boys basketball coach Pat Clarey recently won his 300th career game.

Brookfield Academy boys basketball coach Pat Clarey recently won his 300th career game.

Through those interactions, Clarey has gained an appreciation for filling the locker room with kids of high character, along with talent and passion.

“That’s a recipe for success,” Clarey said. “Every year we set out to reach our potential. Let’s not worry about outcomes, let’s just worry about the important stuff. The process, how we’re gonna be really good teammates.”

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It is a formula that has helped generate team success, as well as over 20 program players moving on to play collegiately, including Sean (Michigan Tech) as well as Pat and Deanna’s three other boys Ryan (Carroll University), Aidan (Rockhurst University) and Peytan (UW-Stevens Point). While Brookfield Academy’s younger outfit in 2025-26 has had its challenges amid an 8-11 season, Clarey defines the season by a less quantifiable metric.

“I always measure a team and a season by, ‘Do I look forward to going to practice?’ and man brother, I get up in the morning so excited to work with these guys and help them get better and reach their potential and where they want to go. That’s what really excites me, and that’s what I feel blessed to do,” Clarey said.

Boys basketball news and notes from the Milwaukee area

  • No. 1 area team Wisconsin Lutheran hit several more milestones in program history as it maintains a torrid pace. A Feb. 10 win over Pewaukee brought Wisco to 20-0 on the season, as the Vikings reached 20 wins for the 12th time in program history. It was also the 30th straight win for the program dating back to Feb. 14, 2025, and the 40th straight home win dating back to the 2022-23 season. Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Mr. Basketball Award semifinalist Zavier Zens continued his ascent in program history as well, entering Feb. 13 against Greendale in the top 10 in program history in points (1,405, 3rd), rebounds (414, 10th) and assists (261, 4th since 1988). Kon Knueppel II (2024 graduate) and Flavien Davis (2010) are the only other Vikings in program history that sit in the top 10 in all three categories, with Knueppel leading in all three (1,978, 808, 398) and Davis second in points (1,615), second in rebounds (720) and ninth in assists (222).

  • Arrowhead, Cudahy and Franklin each saw a new entrant into their 1,000-point clubs on the same night. Arrowhead junior 6-foot-2 guard Trey Resch became the eighth in his program’s history to reach 1,000 with 31 points in an 87-66 win over Oak Creek on Feb. 10. Cudahy senior 5-10 guard Aaron Brooks also reached 1,000 that same night in a 74-58 loss at South Milwaukee. Franklin 6-4 senior and Florida Tech commit Jacob Misslich scored 35 points in a 73-70 loss to Kenosha Bradford at home to become the third Milwaukee area athlete to reach 1,000 points that evening, while also becoming the seventh member of the 1K club in Sabers program history.

  • Golda Meir clinched its first Milwaukee City Conference Blue Division title since the 2018-19 season with an 83-57 win over Milwaukee Marshall on Feb. 12. The Owls (16-2) have swept their City Conference competition (10-0) to this point in the season, led by reader-voted midseason player of the year Kaleb Colbert. The 6-foot senior guard has averaged 24.3 points, 7.4 rebounds, 7.3 assists and 5.5 steals per game.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: High school boys basketball news and notes in the Milwaukee area

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