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June 6, 2012

Brad Phillips to coach girls basketball at Southwest

By Anvil Welch Globe Sports Writer

Brad Phillips, new girls basketball coach at Washburn Southwest High School, brings a wealth of experience to the position.

Phillips, 37, was head women’s basketball coach at Southwest Mississippi Community College in 2011-12 and at East Georgia College in 2010-11. He was an assistant at Colby (Kan.) Community College the previous two seasons.

Phillips also has coached at Pratt (Kan.), Jacksonville (Texas) and Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.) on the junior college level. Plus, on the high school level, he’s coached at Doniphan (Mo.) as well as several schools in Arkansas

“They have some talent and it’s closer to home,” Phillips said Tuesday of joining the Class 3 Trojans of the Ozark 7 Conference. “I’m excited. I hear we should have one of the most talented teams in the conference. Home for me now will be some 3 1/2 hours away.”

Phillips, an all-state guard in basketball at Maynard (Ark.), said his mom lives in Jonesboro and his dad at Pocahontas.

Phillips, who graduated from Maynard in 1993, said he played basketball at Crowley’s Ridge (Ark.) and Brown-Mackie (Kan.) before finishing at defunct Ambassador College in Big Sandy, Texas. He has degrees from Williams Baptist of Walnut Ridge, Ark., and Emporia (Kan.) State.

Steven Rissler, who was at Southwest for two seasons, has been named head girls coach at Licking (Mo.). Former Joplin girls coach Ben Glasgow is the boys coach at Licking, Rissler said.

Rissler guided Southwest to records of 17-9 overall and 8-2 in the Ozark 7.

Five Southwest players are scheduled to return who earned some level of postseason recognition in the Ozark 7.

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