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Vanover resigns
position at Greenville
Wave looking for
varsity coach
By George Starks
GREENVILLE - After a year as the head basketball coach for the Lady Wave, Kyle Vanover has called it quits citing personal reasons, according to Greenville Athletic Director Randy Swisher.
"I never saw this coming," said Swisher in a phone interview. "I was hoping he would have stayed on and turned this program around and gotten it going. I'm not getting much out of him either, even though he never said why he was leaving, so personal reasons are what it's being referred to."
Vanover took over the Lady Wave program during the 2012-13 season, following a similar one-year tenure from Dave McFiely.
With players like Jenna Dowler and Erin Albright, Vanover was forced to watch one of his best, Megan Galloway, sit out the majority of the season.
Going into the sectional draw, the Wave held a dismal 3-15 mark and lost to Kenton Ridge, 87-49 in the opening round.
Last season, the team was 10-9 at the time of the draw but again lost to Kenton Ridge 61-44 in the second round of the sectionals.
During his year as coach, Vanover went 7-3 in the GWOC North. The year prior the team was 1-9 in conference.
"I'm moving on now," said Swisher. "I'm ready to look for a replacement and I don't dwell too much on why somebody leaves. If they don't want to coach here then they don't want to coach here. We will just move on. The assistants are doing a great job of getting things in place and I wish Kyle the best in whatever he's going to be doing, but we have to move on."
Vanover’s resignation was effective June 5. Also resigning was Edward Porter, Greenville’s cross country coach, effective May 29.
Currently, Vanover is living in Troy. |
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