Camas Excessive Faculty is popping to a well-recognized face to steer its women basketball program.
Brian Witherspoon, who served as interim head coach of the Camas boys workforce in the course of the 2024-25 season, was employed because the Papermakers’ women basketball head coach, athletic director Stephen Baranowski confirmed Thursday.
Witherspoon is buying and selling locations with Scott Thompson, who took over because the Camas boys head coach in April after seven years main the ladies program.
A former head coach at Evergreen, Witherspoon joined Camas’ workers in 2017, serving as an assistant and JV head coach within the boys program.
Then, simply days earlier than the 2024-25 season started in November, Ryan Josephson’s resignation as head coach prompted the college to advertise Witherspoon to steer the Papermakers on an interim foundation.
Camas didn’t skip a beat with Witherspoon on the helm. The Papermakers received a single-season program file 22 video games, repeated as 4A Better St. Helens League champions and positioned sixth on the Class 4A state event for the second time in three years.
After the season, nevertheless, Thompson left the Camas women program after main the Papermakers to back-to-back 4A state championship video games, together with this system’s first state title in 2024.
His leap to the Camas boys program opened one other door for Witherspoon to use and interview for the Camas women gig.
It was an uncommon commerce in the identical athletic program, although the college wished to retain each coaches to steer their basketball applications.
“While it was never in the plans to have coaches switch the programs they were part of, it became clear going through the hiring processes that we had two great candidates to fill each of our open positions respectively,” Baranowski stated.
