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April 22, 2012

Kelly George named girls basketball coach at Monett

By Anvil Welch Globe Sports Writer

Kelly George has been promoted to the position of head girls basketball coach at Monett High School.

George, who assisted Derrek Uhl in 2011-12, is a 1995 graduate of Monett High School.

Uhl, whose 2010-11 edition finished 20-7 overall and 6-1 in the Big 8 Conference, recently stepped down as the girls coach. But the former Colorado State gridder will remain in the Monett system in several capacities.

“I’m excited,” George said on Saturday. “I’ve bled purple and gold my entire life. I’ve been a Monett Cub forever. We have some good kids.

“We’ll be very young (in 2012-13),” George said. “It was basically that way this season.”

George said that Uhl’s Cubs were without standout Hunter Glouse for several games to start the campaign because of an injury. They had just three seniors in Glouse (who signed with John Brown University), Jessica Schmidt and Nicollette Fellwock.

George, formerly Stellwagen, was a guard in basketball at Monett for Cleo Elbert. The Cubs won district titles her last three years.

“We had strong tradition under coach Elbert,” George said. “That’s the way I want it again. I want to build tradition.”

George attended Missouri Valley in Marshall (Mo.) for two years, playing basketball, before transferring to Missouri Southern. She didn’t play for the Lions but did secure her degree.

She began coaching with a four-year stint at Pierce City before four as the Purdy head coach. Her last Purdy team, in 2008-09, finished 20-7 overall and 9-3 in the Ozark 7 Conference. Those Eagles lost to Miller and Hannah Wilkerson in the finals of District 2-10.

George, who’s been working with youth basketball for a couple of years, also will be cross country coach for both boys and girls and head girls track coach in 2012-13. Her assistant in basketball will be Julie Dalton.

Kelly is married to Kevin George, director of Ramey’s in Cassville, and they have two daughters — Kaylee, 12, and Kaesha, 9.

Basketball changes in Central Ozark Conference: Shelly Jones, an assistant the past five seasons at Drury University, has been named girls coach at Marshfield. Jones, who replaces Wheaton graduate Gary Murphy, was at Springfield Parkview for eight years and at Southwest Baptist University as an assistant for two before moving to Drury. Murphy, meanwhile, also has resigned as the Marshfield softball coach. ... Branson boys coach Randy Bishop has resigned to take a position at Lawrenceville, Ill. Bishop, who was inducted into the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2008, has a career record of 597-307. ... Republic has hired Trevyor Fisher to replace the retiring Gary Stanfield as boys coach. ... Former University of Missouri standout Lamont Frazier, who’s been at Poplar Bluff, has been named to replace boys coach Dusty Killingsworth at Willard. Killingsworth recently stepped down after three years at the helm.

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