After mainly bringing the Sanger boys’ basketball group to lower back-to-lower-back playoff appearances, coach Layne Boxell departs this system to take over at Burleson.
Boxell became 46-40 in three years with the Indians and went 10-18 in his first season earlier than rattling off 18-win campaigns. Sanger became fourth in District 9-4A in 2017-18 and completed fourth in District 11-4A in 2018-19 before falling to Wilmer-Hutchins within the postseason’s first spherical.
Boxell, whose father, Doug Boxell, is the educator at Krum, is a graduate of Ponder and hung out because of the coach at Pollok Central and Tatum previous to Sanger.
“I’m certainly excited about the new possibility,” Layne Boxell stated. “I experience Burleson as if it is in a good spot — they’re 5A, and I felt like it’s an awesome network for my family. But it turned into surely tough leaving Sanger. We’ve seen visible growth inside the software, and I felt like the community here was appropriate and supplied much aid. I loved my time here, but I’m also excited about the new possibility.”
Burleson went 11-17 in closing season and tied for fifth in District five-5A beneath Joey Martin. The Elks compete alongside Mansfield Timberview, which won the Class 5A championship, Crowley, Burleson Centennial, Mansfield Legacy, Arlington Seguin, and Granbury Everman.
Layne Boxell became authorized because of the train at Burleson at a college board assembly on April 25.
“They’re in a difficult district,” he said. “They’ve been given a few appropriate portions again. They additionally misplaced a few children, but at a faculty, the dimensions of Burleson, you’re continually going to have a quite appropriate pool to drag from. They had a pretty top JV crew for the ultimate year. It could be tough, but I assume it will be an excellent possibility.”
Sanger posted its activity opening on the Texas High School Coaches Association website on May 2, and athletic director Chuck Galbreath stated the district received approximately forty packages. Galbreath stated Sanger would begin accomplishing interviews Monday to have a final candidate in location through the end of the subsequent week.
The Indians didn’t go back on any all-district gamers, as Hank Lemons, a second-team all-district pick, is about to graduate this month. Jordan Williams, Tre Peoples, Payten Vidourek, and Brock Howard can also be misplaced to graduation. At the same time, Za, ch Cochran, Hollis Gleason, and Aidan Kearney are some of the crew’s expected returners.
“Coach Boxell did a notable activity for us,” Galbreath stated. “He had an excellent couple of seasons here, and we’re in an amazing region. However, I understand the opportunity to go to a bigger college. We need to discover some other train enthusiastic about basketball, come in and put down some roots, and position inside the work. Now, we are not the best on the varsity degree but also from middle college, all of the manners up.
“We need to have sustainable basketball software for a long time to return.”
