Roy Excessive College

Roy Excessive trainer Hailee Parry.

Roy Excessive College didn’t should look far for its subsequent women basketball head coach after Carolyn DeHoff stepped down on the finish of the season.

The varsity introduced Hailee Parry as its new women basketball coach Friday. Parry teaches PE at Roy Excessive.

Three spots to the appropriate of DeHoff’s headshot on the PE employees listing internet web page, there’s Parry’s headshot.

Not far in any respect.

“When this opened up, like I mentioned, this has been a dream of mine to be a women basketball coach at a highschool. The place I’m educating there already, I couldn’t go up the chance,” Parry mentioned Friday.

Parry performed basketball at Syracuse Excessive on its 2010 state championship staff and its 2011 state runner-up staff, then went to USU-Jap for 2 years as some extent guard, redshirted at Utah Valley and completed a educating diploma at Weber State.

She labored at Syracuse Excessive, South Ogden Junior and Rocky Mountain Junior as an assistant coach. Parry hasn’t coached for the final couple years however she’s been educating at Roy.

Parry desires to have interaction feeder colleges to attempt to increase the variety of gamers that come out for this system, which is one problem she sees.

“One other problem I see is … taking on any program that’s been ran so lengthy by somebody so superior. I do issues totally different, so it’s going to be a bit totally different for the ladies and I simply hope they’re prepared to purchase in,” Parry mentioned.

The Royals went 6-16 this season and 6-6 in Area 2. 5 of their prime scorers had been juniors or sophomores, led by Nicole Williams and Jerzee Hart.

Roy is transferring from 6A to 5A subsequent season and can be part of Area 5 with Bonneville, Clearfield, Northridge and Field Elder.

Join with reporter Patrick Carr by way of e-mail at pcarr@customary.web, Twitter @patrickcarr_ and Instagram @standardexaminersports.

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