Colony assistant hired to coach Ontario girls basketball
Ontario replaced recently departed girls basketball coach Bryan Grant with Kevin Crocker last week. An assistant coach in the Colony boys basketball program for the last seven years, Crocker could be approved as the Jaguars new head coach as early as a March 16 board meeting. Grant, who stepped down after the birth of his second child, led Ontario from four wins in his first season of 2007-08 to 18 wins and a second consecutive playoff appearance last season.
"Bryan Grant did a great job of turning the program back around the last couple of years," Crocker said. "We definitely have the athletes to build upon what he has done."
An Ontario High graduate, Crocker joined Ontario prior to this school year as an assistant varsity baseball coach and instructional assistant in special education. Since the school opened in 2002, he had been working at at Colony, home to the girls basketball team that hasn't lost a game in four seasons in the same Mt. Baldy League of which Ontario is a member.
"When a new school opens it reaps the benefits of the new gym and everything that comes with a new school," Crocker said. "I think that's going to start to even out."
About Clay
Clay Fowler has been covering high school sports for six years in California and Texas. He was born in Dallas, attended the University of Texas and worked in Central Texas before joining the Daily Bulletin staff in 2006.
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