Great Falls announces its new boys basketball coach a week before start of the season
Great Falls High School has hired a new head coach for its boys basketball team and a new head coach for the softball team, according to a press release from the school.
Alex Fair will coach boys basketball. For the past six years, Fair had been an assistant varsity coach and head junior varsity coach at Northwestern High School.
Before that, he played in the North/South All-Star Basketball Game as a high school senior in 1997. He also played at Newberry College, where he was a two-time first-team All-South Atlantic Conference player.
“Coaching is my true passion,” Fair said in the statement. “I strive to impact every player that I coach and teach with showing them how to continuously pursue excellence and achieve greatness in life.”
Fair will begin his tenure in less than a week, when Great Falls has its home opener against York on Tuesday.
The position opened up after Great Falls’s athletic director and basketball coach, Jimmy Duncan, accepted the athletic director job at Northwestern in late October.
“I have seven seniors on my team, a couple of college athletes,” Duncan told The Herald in October. “I mean, whoever gets that team is going to fall into a great job.”
The Red Devils will have an abundance of talent this season. They were chosen by the South Carolina Basketball Association as the top 1A team in the state. Its roster includes Kelton Talford, who signed a national letter of intent to play at Winthrop earlier this month.
Great Falls also announced it has hired a new softball coach, Martha Hayes, the school’s former junior varsity softball coach.
“I’m excited for another year as a Red Devil,” Hayes said in a statement. “I look forward to continuing to build the softball program here at Great Falls.”
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