‘It was a fun ride’: Jared Adamson steps down as Nation Ford boys basketball coach
Nation Ford High School is looking for a new boys basketball coach.
After six years at the Falcons’ helm, Jared Adamson confirmed to The Herald on Monday afternoon that he’s decided to step down as head boys basketball coach. Adamson is doing so to spend more time with his family, he said.
The Fort Mill School District posted the job on its website Friday.
Adamson was named the head boys basketball coach at Nation Ford ahead of the 2016-17 season. Since then he’s accumulated a record of 72-72, per MaxPreps, which included this year’s 6-18 showing.
His team’s best years were 2017-18 and 2018-19 — when the team won region titles in back-to-back years and made deep runs in the Class 5A state playoffs, and did so with some of the best talent that Nation Ford has seen since it opened its doors in 2007.
But Adamson will remember all of his teams, he said, and the relationships he made with all his players in the process.
“It was a fun ride,” Adamson said. “We were really good a couple years ago, with Zeb (Graham) and Malik (Bryant) and Shamon (Alston) and Khydarius (Smith). I could go on and on with that list. We just had a really good team. Just the amount of talent we had on that one team was incredible.”
He added: “Of course, we had some other years when we might not have won as many games, but just being around the kids was a lot of fun.”
Adamson joined Nation Ford in 2016 after spending time with other South Carolina basketball programs. He spent the 2014-15 season as the South Aiken boys head coach and the 2015-16 season as an assistant at Dorman High.
Adamson said he might consider coaching again if the timing is right. But with three kids of his own — ages 10, 8 and 6 — now is a good moment to temporarily step away.
“I’m definitely not shutting the door to coaching,” said Adamson, who will still teach physical education at Nation Ford. “I might still try to coach later down the road. So I’m not shutting the door. But right now, the time is right to spend it with my family.”
Adamson’s departure means there are three high school boys basketball jobs open in York County. Northwestern (in Rock Hill) and Clover high schools are also in the market for a boys basketball coach after departures/resignations last week.
This story was originally published April 25, 2022 at 3:47 PM.
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