Born and raised in the basketball hotbed of Indiana, Terry Battenberg moved with his family to Sacramento, California when he was 16. While attending Cal State University at Sacramento, he began his coaching career at Jesuit High School where he eventually became California's youngest head coach at the age of 22.

Following a successful four year run at Jesuit, which included four league titles and one NorCal Championship (TOC), Coach Battenberg became an assistant to Hall of Fame Coach Ralph Miller at Oregon State University in 1971-2. A year later, he was named the head coach at Montana Tech College in Butte, Montana where his team set a school record (at the time) with 26 wins and only 8 losses. From 1980-84, Battenberg coached at American River College in Sacramento, California , where he was an assistant to John Karsten for three years and head coach for one. In 2008-09 he served as an assistant coach at Sacramento State University.

During his 32 year coaching career, Coach Battenberg has also directed four different Sacramento area high schools to a league title (12 titles in all during 22 years as a high school coach). He began his career with a 26-2 season at Jesuit High School in 1969 and ended it with his 2007 Union Mine High School team that finished 27-2. Battenberg coached 21 All League Post Men in 22 years as a high school coach and three in his five years as a college head coach.

Coach Battenberg is the author of the original book on Post Play, called The Complete Book of Basketball Post Play , published in 1978. He continues to speak at clinics and conduct camps all over the Western  United States and his latest book, Power Post Play, was released in 2007.

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