Adams has their new Boys Basketball Coach.

Written Wednesday May 15th at 8:50 PM

It has been a heck of an offseason for Adams but they finally have found a new Boys Basketball Coach.

The Highlanders named Jaret Thomas as their next basketball coach taking over for Brad Crighton who stepped down last month.

Thomas coached the Junior Varsity program at Avondale last season and was a longtime assistant at Oakland Christian before that.

The coaching job originally went to Nick Evola, former coach at Warren Woods Tower and Rochester School employee but he had a change of heart turning down the job last week after accepting it the week before.

Thomas will have a challenge with this program going forward. They have had a turbulent offseason as mentioned with the possible departures of their star players in Gunner Walters and the Emerzian boys (Jake and Ethan.) What will help is that he knows the White when he was at Avondale and that his new team has some talent returning in Peyton Prieskorn, George Gurraj, and Austin Ursuay.

Thoughts

This is an interesting hire for Adams. I like Thomas, he is a good guy and a good coach, although the hire is not splashy unlike Lake Orion with the Joel Schroeder hire a few weeks ago.

Thomas learned from Tim Morton at Avondale on how to run a program and has been very successful.

There will be an adjustment period with the Highlanders coaches and players. Thomas will also need to find a Junior Varsity coach as well which will not be easy. 

It is not a total rebuild but there is work to do at Adams.

Stay tuned to OAA Now for the latest on this developing story.

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