{"id":119692,"date":"2019-06-26T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T02:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=119692"},"modified":"2019-06-26T21:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T02:43:15","slug":"williams-is-new-lady-lancer-hoops-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/06\/26\/williams-is-new-lady-lancer-hoops-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams is new Lady Lancer hoops coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time since the 2010-2011 season, Lincolnview will have a new girls\u2019 basketball coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014 Lincolnview High School graduate Kyle Williams was hired during Wednesday night\u2019s Board of Education meeting. He\u2019s replacing Dan Williamson, who stepped down in April after nine seasons on the job. The Lady Lancers went 8-16 (1-7 NWC) in 2018-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kyle-Williams-6-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119682\"\/><figcaption><strong>Kyle Williams<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams served as boys\u2019 junior varsity basketball coach at Fort Jennings last season, and he\u2019s hit the ground running at Lincolnview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have had great numbers this summer for open gyms and workouts,\u201d Williams said. \u201cWe had some opportunities to play against some other schools in some shootouts as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe girls seem excited and they have done a great job adapting to a new staff and some new philosophies. They come in the gym geared up and excited. The rest off the offseason we just need to keep focusing on getting better and work hard when we are in the gym.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the 2018 Defiance College graduate wasn\u2019t officially named as the head coach until Wednesday, he has a list of priorities and goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think the top priority for us is to get a great group of girls to commit and buy in to what we want to do as a program,\u201d Williams explained. \u201cLike I said, we have been having great numbers and girls are coming in and getting better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy goal would definitely be to change the culture surrounding Lady Lancer basketball,\u201d Williams continued. \u201cI tell girls all the time that it means something to be a Lancer and it definitely means something to be a Lady Lancer. We are a family. I think there has been a stigma about the program and I think some new philosophies will be good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to build the program the best that I can and I think that starts with getting a good strong group to buy in too what we are doing and then building up the youth program as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for style of play \u2013 uptempo, half-court or otherwise, Williams said it\u2019s too early to project what his team will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe coaching staff and I are still feeling out what type of team we are and what would  fit our players the best,\u201d Williams stated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt Evans will serve as Williams\u2019 top assistant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor For the first time since the 2010-2011 season, Lincolnview will have a new girls\u2019 basketball coach. 2014 Lincolnview High School graduate Kyle Williams was hired during Wednesday night\u2019s Board of Education meeting. He\u2019s replacing Dan Williamson, who stepped down in April after nine seasons on the job. The Lady Lancers went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 13:34:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}