Written Wednesday June 5th at 11:30 AM
The Yellow Jackets have found their new head coach.
Avondale named Pat Clancy as the team's new Boys Basketball coach replacing Tim Morton according to Yellow Jackets Athletic Director Keith Gust who confirmed to me the news.
Clancy played his high school basketball at Detroit University-Detroit Jesuit and college ball at Kalamazoo College where he was an MIAA All Second team as a junior in the 06-07 season.
Clancy was an assistant at Warren Cousino and taught at Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes before taking the Avondale job.
Morton was at Avondale in his second stint with the program but stepped down last March to focus more time on his business and family.
Clancy will take over a Yellow Jackets program that has been up and down recently. Avondale was in the White but struggled last season going 9-13 losing to Bloomfield Hills in the district semifinals.
The Yellow Jackets will have a ton of athletic guards returning but the post will be a question. Avondale will move down to the Blue next season joining the likes of Berkley, Rochester, Troy Athens, Seaholm, Pontiac, and Royal Oak.
Thoughts.
This is an interesting hire for Avondale to go with Clancy. Clancy brings a new face to the OAA and a ton of basketball knowledge. I expect his new team to be near the top or middle of the pack this upcoming season.
I'm not sure how the Yellow Jackets will do this season but there is nowhere to go but up from here for them.
Stay tuned to OAA Now for the latest on this developing story.
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- I have highest function of autism (Asperger Syndrome.) I'm a huge Dallas Stars fan. I like to play and watch football, especially when the Dragons play on Friday nights. I am a 2006 alum and used to play football for the Dragons. I ran track, I ran the 100, 200, 400 meter dashes along with shot-put and discus. During my time in Orion I was a manager for Junior Varsity Boys Basketball team. I'm the volleyball, girls basketball, and football announcer for the team and do the book on the road for girls basketball. I do the clock for volleyball in the fall along with girls basketball in the winter and announce some boys basketball games as well. In the spring I coach shot-put at Scripps Middle School, in my fifth season coaching. I run the shot-put for high school meets. I played Special Olympics Basketball, I've won three gold medals for them. I host "Between Taorminas" which is on ONTV along with a podcast called "OAA Now". In other various things outside of Lake Orion, I love to jet ski over Saginaw Bay. Saginaw Bay is basically my life. I'm a trained weather spotter for the National Weather Service for Oakland and Huron counties.
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