Baylor School has reached into the college ranks once again for its next boys’ basketball coach.
Quinn McDowell, who most recently worked as an assistant at Longwood University — an NCAA Division I program in Farmville, Virginia — was named the Red Raiders’ new coach on Friday.
He takes over for Mark Price, who recently stepped down after six seasons as head coach to concentrate more on his role as the school’s athletic director. Price was hired by Baylor after working for several seasons as an assistant at Belmont University in Nashville.
The Baylor football program also hired from the college ranks two years ago when Erik Kimrey left the University of South Carolina, where he had been a tight ends coach, to take over the Red Raiders. He led them to the TSSAA Division II-AAA state title in his first season and a runner-up finish last year.
McDowell also worked previously at Lehigh University, where seven players he coached earned all-conference honors during his time there, as well as Taylor University, an NAIA program, and Virginia Wesleyan University, an NCAA Division III school.