WHS not rushing search for new coach

Waynesboro Athletic Director Mel Morris said that he isn’t rushing to fill the vacant varsity girls basketball coach position, but hopes to find someone before the school year begins.

“We are hopeful to have someone before school starts, but we are not in a real hurry to do it,” Morris said. “We want to give everyone enough time to apply.”

After two-year coach Secrett Stubblefield resigned, the Waynesboro High School administration is searching for someone to rebuild the young team after it failed to reach the Southern Valley District tournament last year.

In the 2007-08 season, Stubblefield’s first year as the Little Giants’ coach, Waynesboro advanced to the Group AA finals, only to fall to Hidden Valley 59-45.

Morris said he has received about five queries about the position and two applications. Morris said that the school “is still in the process” of reviewing the applicants and may begin to set up interviews as early as next week.

Stubblefield took over the girls basketball program after Brian Lundstrom resigned on April 27, 2007. Lundstrom coached the Little Giants for eight seasons.

When Stubblefield was introduced as the Little Giants’ next coach, she said that she wanted coach at the college level and was using Waynesboro as a stepping stone to achieve that goal.

“I was trying to be a coach at the college level, but I didn’t rule out doing it at the small level. You know, start at the ground up,” Stubblefield said on Aug. 17, 2007.

Morris said that the school is now looking for a long-term solution to rebuild the program.
“We are not interested in someone who will be here for a year then start over,” he said.
Ideally, Morris said that the Little Giants’ next coach would be someone already in the school system but he isn’t ruling anything out.