Monarch girls basketball will have a new coach next season. (Kai Casey/CHSAANow.com)
Monarch announced on Monday that it has hired Bill Bradley as its next girls basketball coach.
Bradley was the coach at ThunderRidge from 2003-13, and twice won Class 5A titles in his time there (2004 and 2005).
At ThunderRidge, Bradley coached Abby Waner, considered one of the best girls basketball players in state history, as well as other stars like Emily Fox, who would later be drafted by the WNBA, and Carlie Needles, now a starter at Florida.
Bradley is 435-230 in his 25-year career, and spent the past two seasons at the head coach at Milan High School in Tennessee.
At ThunderRidge, Bradley’s teams also made two other appearances in the state title game, and made eight total trips to the Final 4.
Bradley replaces a legend at Monarch in Gail Hook, who retired in early May. Hook was the only coach in Monarch’s girls basketball history.
Monarch is coming off of a 24-3 season in which the Coyotes reached the Final 4. The team loses two of its three leading scorers, but returns 10 players who saw game action last season.
Also on Monday, Monarch announced it has hired Jenny Huettl to as both its boys and girls tennis coach. Huettl had been at Port Washington High School in Wisconsin, where she was the head boys and girls tennis coach for the past three seasons.