BCHS hires two-time state championship basketball
coach
By Daniel L. Bamberg
Daniel@Centrevillepress.com
Bibb County High School
has a new head basketball coach.
Two-time state championship winning coach (Pickens County High School),
Russ Wallace will be suited up in purple in gold for the 2012-2013 season.
Wallace will also be the
linebacker’s coach for the BCHS football team, coaching alongside new head
football coach, Mike McCombs. He
is a graduate of Tuscaloosa County High School and played under their legendary
coach Bobby Jones.
Wallace’s Pickens County
teams were 292-90 in 14 seasons.
He left Pickens County for Buckhorn but decided to return to his West
Alabama roots by taking the open BCHS job.
“I feel like I’m back
home, being just 30 miles from where I grew up,” said Wallace in an interview
with another media source. “The
situation at Buckhorn didn’t fit me.
So when the opportunity to coach Bibb County came open, I jumped on it.”
Bibb County High School is
a two-time state championship basketball program. It’s first title came in 1970. In 1989 current BCHS Athletic Director, Charles McCaleb led
the Choctaws to their second title.
Wallace has already
coached a BCHS team at camp at the University of Alabama in July. The team went 7-2 with a close loss to
the camp’s championship team. He
stated that he wants to get the school back to winning championships and
believes with the athletic ability and intensity of the kids, he can do just
that.
(Pboto) Bibb County High School
has landed a two-time state championship basketball coach (Pickens County) in
Russ Wallace. The coach who left
Pickens County for a bigger opportunity at Buckhorn recently returned to his
west Alabama roots to coach at BCHS.
Wallace grew up in Tuscaloosa County where he played against the BCHS
1989 state championship team against Charles McCaleb’s squad. Now he will coach under McCaleb, the
BCHS Athletic Director.
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