Avondale has their new Girls Basketball Coach.

Written Tuesday July 10th at 10:10 PM

The Avondale Yellow Jackets have their new Girls Basketball Coach.

The Yellow Jackets have named Bob Lees as the team's next head coach replacing Phil Dawson whom resigned in the spring.

Lees comes over from Troy after being an assistant coach for the Colts boys basketball team under legendary coach Gary Fralick. Lees will transition over from boys basketball to girls basketball.

Lees will bring a scrappy like type of play which is very similar to Fralick's system. He will have some talent to work with when he gets to Avondale. Lees will have Olivia Russell, Keiori Lee, and Keziah Buggs to work with for the Yellow Jackets.

Avondale went 16-3 under Dawson and shared the Blue with Farmington last season. This season the Yellow Jackets went up to the White and will compete with the likes of Oxford, Adams, Lake Orion, West Bloomfield, Troy, Troy Athens, and Farmington. Avondale will be in a district with Waterford Mott, West Bloomfield, Bloomfield Hills, and North Farmington at West Bloomfield.

Thoughts.

This is an interesting hire for Avondale. Lees is a good basketball coach but as mentioned going from the boys game to the girls game will have it's challenges.

The transitioning from the boys to the girls game is not always the easiest, your going to have to experience some growing pains. Mike Griffin whom coaches at Lake Orion is a perfect example coming from the boys game to the girls game can have it's ups and downs. Lees will have to go through that same learning curve that Griffin went through last season.

Lees will also have to get on the same page with his players and his players the same way with their new coach.

We shall see what happens.

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