Class AA: The New Coaches of 2024-25

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Our newest set of names when it comes to the Class AA coaches. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Chris McCray at St. Paul Washington. McCray is a teacher at Washington and he's been coaching multiple sports as an assistant over time and is now the head basketball coach.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Bruce Erdmann at Crookston. The former Mayville and U of Mary assistant coach has been back at Crookston the last 15 years. While in Crookston he has coached some JV but most of his time has been spent as a key part of the Crookston youth basketball association (director and coach wise). </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Dave Holquist at Sibley East. Holquist was a junior high basketball coach last year for Sibley East and he has previously been an assistant for the girls program. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Ahmil Jihad at Minneapolis North. Jihad comes home to coach the program that he once was a part of as a high school student athlete. Jihad has coached at Minneapolis South (girls) and the Minneapolis Edison boys plus coached for [program_tooltip program_id='2455790' first='Howard' last='Pulley'] in past years. Jihad did an amazing job making Edison competitive after many years of struggle and he's one of the most respected leaders in the Minnesota basketball community. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jadee Jones at Minnehaha Academy. Jadee played at Furman and has been training basketball players in the Twin Cities for many years plus he has coached at Apple Valley and helped with Team Tyus as well. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Rochester Lourdes. Eric Larson stepped down last spring but I have not seen an announcement for a new coach yet nor is it listed on the school site or on MSHSL.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yuriy Malashenko at Jordan. One of Jordan's best players ever is now moving into their head coaching position after eight years as an assistant. Yuriy played at Augustana in college and has come back home to help lead the program he grew up in. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Darrell Moffit at Twin Cities/Great River. Darrell has been a very good AAU coach in the Twin Cities for a long time and is definitely one of the up and comers in the Twin Cities when it comes to coaches. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Mounds Park Academy. Their coach is now coaching the girls program at Park Center so Mounds Park will need a new coach </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Andy Ortmann at Annandale. Ortmann takes over for legendary Skip Dolan and he's been getting ready for this position for years. Andy has been an assistant in the program for a long time and he's been working in the school as well. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jeb Sanford of Park Rapids. Sanford is a teacher in the community and he's been coaching at the ninth grade level for the Panthers. He's taking over as the head coach for Jeremy Nordick.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Eric Terres at New London-Spicer. Terres has been coaching baseball and basketball as an assistant and now moves into the head basketball position for the winter. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Brady Wohler at Belle Plaine. Brady has been at Orono helping his father Barry Wohler and of course was not that long ago a standout player for Orono and he played college basketball at Dakota Wesleyan, Minnesota State Mankato, and Minnesota State Moorhead. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Eric Wuensch at La Crescent/Hokah. Wuensch was the coach at La Crescent in the past, he then went to De Soto High School and Western WI Tech to coach in Wisconsin, and is now coming back to La Crescent/Hokah to be head coach once again. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->