By Stephen Hargis
Assistant Sports Editor
Tennessee Temple High School named Greg Brown its new boys basketball coach today. Brown, the head coach of the Temple girls program this past season, replaces Dan Wadley, who resigned to take the McCallie coaching job last week.
I came here with the intention of one day becoming a boys head coach and I think Ive learned how to do things the right way working here, Brown said. It was hard telling the girls that I wouldnt be their coach anymore, but Ive prayed about it and this is where I feel like I belong.
Im sure there will be some pressure because Coach Wadley has such a recognized program, but I look at it as more of an opportunity than pressure.
Brown, 22, guided the Lady Crusaders to the Region 3 championship, their second state sectional appearance and a 23-9 overall record last season. He was an assistant with the boys team for two years before that. He is a Dade County High School graduate and will finish work on his teaching degree at Tennessee Temple University this summer.
Bouler added that the school has already begun its search for a new girls coach.
Wadley was also the schools athletic director, but that job will remain open until Temple names a new headmaster within the next month. Brown is also a candidate for that job.
Read tomorrows Times Free Press for more information.
E-mail Stephen Hargis at shargis@timesfreepress.com
Assistant Sports Editor
Tennessee Temple High School named Greg Brown its new boys basketball coach today. Brown, the head coach of the Temple girls program this past season, replaces Dan Wadley, who resigned to take the McCallie coaching job last week.
I came here with the intention of one day becoming a boys head coach and I think Ive learned how to do things the right way working here, Brown said. It was hard telling the girls that I wouldnt be their coach anymore, but Ive prayed about it and this is where I feel like I belong.
Im sure there will be some pressure because Coach Wadley has such a recognized program, but I look at it as more of an opportunity than pressure.
Brown, 22, guided the Lady Crusaders to the Region 3 championship, their second state sectional appearance and a 23-9 overall record last season. He was an assistant with the boys team for two years before that. He is a Dade County High School graduate and will finish work on his teaching degree at Tennessee Temple University this summer.
Bouler added that the school has already begun its search for a new girls coach.
Wadley was also the schools athletic director, but that job will remain open until Temple names a new headmaster within the next month. Brown is also a candidate for that job.
Read tomorrows Times Free Press for more information.
E-mail Stephen Hargis at shargis@timesfreepress.com
