Almond's greatest team was probably his 2003 squad, which finished ranked No. Lathrop, who is in the Missouri Hall of Fame, died in 2018 at 82 years old. It was lunch time one day last week and Keith was sitting at a corner table in Bob & Skylers, his favorite eating establishment in Manchester. 6:00 PM. Schools: Lafayette St. Thomas More (La.) }); Coach Jarrod Gay is a livelong Lexington resident, playing varsity ball at both Henry Clay and Bryan Station. Elizabethton 26-4. On 11/30, the Clay varsity basketball team won their home non-conference game against Wolfson (Jacksonville, FL) by a score of 38-37. Zach Piatt is a reporter for The Palladium-Item. He was suspended in 2003 for using a paddle to swat players' butts for missing free throws and in 2004 for using foul language at practice. On 12/20, the Clay varsity basketball team lost their away non-conference game against Whitmer (Toledo, OH) by a score of 90-35. Bottom line: You won't find many educators and coaches like John Guice. Bottom line: Eric Staples still makes the list despite not coaching a game in almost 60 years the longest amount of time of any coach among the list of wins leaders. Caldwell. Keith played on 13th Region title teams at Clay County in 1957 and 1958 and was an assistant for eight seasons, during which Clay County reached two Sweet Sixteens, before he took over for Skyler Garrison in 1970. After graduating Coach Tyler moved to Athens, Georgia to play a short stint with a Semi-pro club called The Georgia Predators. Watch this highlight video of the Clay (Green Cove Springs, FL) basketball team in its game Clay vs Middleburg Game Highlights - Jan. 17, 2023 on Jan 17, 2023. He would remain in that position for the next 48 years. I bounced a ball off his head (to get his attention). The 6-foot-6, 295-pound junior came off the bench and helped Ramsey repeat . He put his hands on her shoulders, looked her in her eyes and talked softly. Peggy, Keiths wife of 25 years, is one Clay Countys biggest boosters. As a boys coach, he spent his entire career in Georgia. Id kick him out, but as soon as Id turn around hed be back shooting again. Previous Coaching Experience: Lanier High School, Grayson High School, and Dawson . Watch this highlight video of the Clay (Green Cove Springs, FL) basketball team in its game Clay vs Interlachen Game Highlights - Jan. 27, 2023 on Jan 27, 2023. Bobby Keith has had a magnificent obsession with Clay County basketball for 35 years, ever since he was a kid following the exploits of the 1953 Tigers, who went undefeated before losing to eventual state champ Lafayette in the quarterfinals of the Sweet Sixteen. Taking a basketball off the noggin can be an enlightening experience. A lot of players used to come by and rub him before we played, Keith said, so hes about worn out.. So last June I retired from the Lexington Herald-Leader after covering approximately 4,000 high school sports events in my career. 559 talking about this. Clay HS Girls' Basketball 2021-22 Schedule. There isnt a single basketball coach in Wayne County other than maybe his boys counterpart at Richmond, Billy Wright who is more animated or shows more emotion on the sideline, and he showed that Wednesday. OREGON, Ohio Clay High School has named Joel Visser the new boys basketball coach and Keith Kennedy the new girls basketball coach. Thats the sign of a great coach and a great teacher.. The celebration has really never stopped in Clay County, probably because the Tigers are ready to make a run at a second straight crown. His brother Billy has had the operation, too. Hes so focused on figuring out how to win that he is almost unapproachable. He was 75. After seeing Keith back in action at practice, Rawlings had another version of the prognosis. Hopefully, we developed a really good relationship and they know that while I may be hard on them, its because I want the very best for them I hope these girls know how much I love them.. Nowhere in sports is consistency more valued than on the high school level, where a coach can lead fathers and then their sons at the same school. Teacher Leadership) . Bobby Keith, the legendary boys' basketball coach who won more than 700 games at Clay County High School and guided the Tigers to their only state title, died Wednesday in Manchester. He had a career record of 767-125 (86%). High school basketball has had its share of success stories. Facebook. I still remember the score, Central 59, us 55.. Anybody who wins at anything needs luck, Keith said, but you cant count on it. Keith thought he was as healthy as a horse last August when he went to Lexington for a checkup. Im serious. Im not that bad, he said with a smile. Coach Tyler Smith enters his second season on the Tates Creek Coaching Staff, and his 5th year coaching. HIgh School, State championships: 3 (1999, 2002, 2003). Gilbert was inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame in 2014. Hawkins' most well-known player was an all-state pick who went on to excel in another sport forward Marcus Spears had an All-American career and won a national championship in football at LSU before becoming a first-round pick in the 2005 NFL draft. var encodedEmail = swrot13('wneebq.tnl@snlrggr.xlfpubbyf.hf'); Portsmouth Daily Times article. Married for 25 years and have 3 children 2 boys and 1 girl. But you know whats crazy? His coaching career record of wins and losses was 654-237. Wooten, who also coached DeMatha's football team until 1968, first made national headlines when his basketball team pulled off a stunning upset of New York's Power Memorial Academy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1961, ending their 71-game win streak. All rights reserved. What matters most is Bolsers players understand where all his passion comes from, and they do. As long as they keep improving, fans might get to see glimpses of that pretty high ceiling Turpin talked about. This story was originally published October 5, 2016, 6:40 PM. Steve Patchett | Morristown-Beard News and Information Director. After rising to elite status as a player at Rogers, Brooks matriculated to Indiana University. If (the Clay players) play hard, theyll be fine. On 1/24, the Clay varsity basketball team lost their away non-conference game against Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville, FL) by a score of 57-48. Hey, I lettered in baseball and tennis, he quickly interjected. CARBONDALE (WSIL) -- On Friday, the Terriers welcomed a new face to their Basketball program. We ask you to do that because McDonald, who coached 59 years, never received a technical foul in over 1,400 games as a head coach. I thought I was going to get thrown out of Market Square Arena last year, she said, referring to Clay Countys loss to Marion, Ind., in Indianapolis. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. A senior Farmer set a finals record with 51 points in that bout. I said, If you dont like it, get off the floor., Years later, he told me that he told that story to the guys who were whining (when he was an assistant coach) at (the University of) Kentucky.. STAY CONNECTED. I just said, Listen, Im proud of you, Bolser said. Pepple's most famous pupil was two-time Washington Player of the Year Quin Snyder, who led Mercer Island to Pepple's first state championship in 1985, went on to star at Duke and is currently the head coach of the Utah Jazz. Metuchen High School yearbook, courtesy of Metuchen High School, Cliffside Park High School yearbook, courtesy of Cliffside Park. Miller never misses a game and you can always find him with a basketball in his hands. "All those wins just mean I'm old as dirt," Broussard once joked. Instead, he was explaining how he was still on a strict cholesterol diet five months after undergoing quadruple bypass heart surgery, which came five months after he lived his dream by guiding Clay County to the Sweet Sixteen championship. My philosophy has always been that if you work hard enough, good things are going to happen.. Schools: Plankinton (South Dakota) State Training School, Tyndall (S.D.) There are situations where you have to start from the beginning. Peters is credited with doing as much for high school basketball in Memphis as any coach in its history and won his lone state championship in 2007. Every day Im learning something. And yes, his language has been known to deteriorate along with a Clay County lead. All win totals are current through Dec. 10, 2021. 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The Lions' last loss on Jan. 27 to Miami Country Day . He pleaded no contest to the second-degree felony and was given 10 years probation, as well as having to pay restitution. Bottom line: Warren Rutledge was a star baseball player at William & Mary College and rose as high as the New York Yankees' Triple-A squad before he began his high school coaching career at Benedictine High. Coach Tyler Smith was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. Wooten coached until 2002. I do things differently.. MaxPreps is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. I have been known to give an inspirational speech now and then, he said with a smile. Its not often a first-year coach inherits a team like Richmond, where the only returners with significant playing time from the previous season just finished their first year of high school. While some student-athletes dont let the emotions show until theyve played their last game as a senior, these Red Devils are a unit, one that now wont have another basketball game until next winter. Warren did have a state championship as a player, famously scoring the tying run in a legendary baseball state championship game as a senior at Dobyns-Bennett High in 1952. Clay High School is a public high school in Oregon, Ohio, United States, east of Toledo. Bottom line: Danny Broussard is one of several coaches on this list who could take over the No. Email me at mfields@khsaa.org. He prefers the light brown one these days because the teams been on a roll. Gaudet liked to joke that he only had two jobs his entire life, at Pine Prairie and when he took a three-year break to go fight in World War II. Schools: Midway Henrietta (Texas) High School. Bottom line: Robert Capello was born into a small farming community in Texas and, despite being just 5-foot-8 and 145 pounds, became a star quarterback and defensive back at Edcouch-Elsa High, then at Texas A&M-Kingsville. Stats are entered by the coach or designated team statistician in the admin. WYMT first reported that Keith died from an apparent heart attack at Manchester Memorial Hospital. After we won the state title I said I could die a happy man. Ive been fortunate through my career that Ive had so many experiences good and bad that Ive been able to put things that happen in the proper perspective.. You don't become a great coach in any sport without consistency. Coach Jay Bordas enters histhirdseason on the Tates Creek Coaching Staff, and his 17th year of coaching. $(document).ready(function () { Itd be hard to find anybody who works harder than Bobby Keith. Not only was her night over, but her teams season was about to be over, too. When the scores tied with five minutes to go, shes so nervous she hits the lobby and waits to hear the good news from our fans.. Miller Bordas would definitely tell you that he is the best Assistant Coach to ever join the staff at TCHS. Pictured: Burgos (with ball) playing at William Paterson. Schools: St. Joseph (Illinois) High School. Brink, who won his lone state championship in 1988, put his teams in the state tournament 13 times and finished as state runner-up in 1999. His family has a history of cardiovascular ailments. The source for wins is theNational Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). Guice was named the Class A Coach of the Year in 1982 and was inducted into the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998. Back then we would shut the town down when we were in the Sweet Sixteen.. They have the most wins in high school basketball history. Brooks was a 6-foot-4 sharpshooter who scored 2,324 points in his Rogers career. After Keith was released from the hospital last summer, doctors told him hed be better than ever. Some of that comes from themselves for the success they had as freshmen. Harper was inducted into the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018. White, who only had one losing season in 45 years as a coach, died in 2019 at 78 years old. Ive been around here for a while.. Ellis caught news of Dunbars title, Lexington vs. Louisville for 7th time in finals, Grab bag of contenders in Sweet quarterfinals, Braden Miller has a Ty to South Laurel champs, Fairdales back-to-back feat has aged well, Butler flattens Flyers to claim 5th title, Butler gets shot at record-tying 5th title. All rights reserved (About Us). In fact, last year alone, 86 players hit 1,000. They have three children; Miller (9), Leighton (12), and Mattox (16). Clay Local School District Clay High School Clay Middle School Clay Elementary School Panthers Ohio Portsmouth . Eugene Rawlings is another player who will testify to his coachs intensity. Van Huss was the East coach for the 1989 McDonald's All-American Game that featured Shaquille O'Neal, Bobby Hurley, Allan Houston and Jim Jackson. On 12/16, the Clay varsity basketball team lost their away non-conference game against Lima Senior (Lima, OH) by a score of 72-33. The Blue Devil teams made eight (8) KHSAA Sweet Sixteen appearances earning a state title in 1983, in a classic game with Carlisle County. I feel like some of us are realizing what our potential can be, especially as a group, Turpin said. On 1/6, the Clay varsity basketball team lost their away non-conference game against ED White (Jacksonville, FL) by a score of 59-58. Email: Clay County made it to the state tournament in Keiths junior and senior years. Capello spent the last 25 years of his coaching career at his alma mater, where he became known for a distinctive brand of basketball that demanded intense man-to-man defense and outside shooting. The breakthrough finally came in 1985 when Clay County reached the finals against Hopkinsville. Even before he had his heart trouble all he could eat was cheese and crackers.. Those were three of the most epic games at any level of basketball, Davenport told the Herald-Leader. Schools: McGregor (Minn.) High School, Barnum (Minn.) High School, Chisholm (Minn.) High School, State championships: 3 (1973, 1975, 1991). Schools: Mater Dei (California) High School, State championships: 11 (1987, 1990, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014). The school is named for Jeremiah Clay, who donated his farmland for the school to be built on. The official Facebook account of the Clay County Bulldogs Basketball teams. High School, Holden (La.) Davenport was invited to speak at Keiths retirement ceremony at Clay County. 2021-2022 Boys' Basketball schedule for the Clay County Bulldogs from Celina, TN He helped former Elkhart Memorial High standout Daimon Beathea coach international touring teams. Bolser has done his best to help his players reach that potential, but hes had to be patient. All of its home cookin, Keith said. The last loss came on Jan. 31 at Providence. His 767 career victories are fifth on the states all-time list. Both of Hurley's sons, Bobby (Arizona State) and Danny Hurley (Connecticut) are Division I head coaches. Lathrop, a basketball star at William Jewell College in the 1950s, was most known for this time as the coach at Raytown South High in his hometown, where he won four state championships. He holds practices, studies film, travels anywhere and everywhere to scout and play games. For years Keith was frustrated that his Tigers couldnt get past the first or second round of the state tournament. 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