Made official this week Clay Birdwhistell has been named head coach at Anderson County! Great basketball mind and arguably was the best asst in the state for AC the last 6-7 years! Great hire for AC! Good luck to Clay!

This is good news. Congrats to Clay and best of luck. Justice is served.

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Enlighten those of us who don't know who this is.....

Birdwhistell has been the right hand man for Coach Kays the last 6-8 years. Very instrumental in the building of Andersons program from the middle school level and made it an easy transition for those girls to come up and play varsity.

I was sitting next to Clay (when he was the Anderson Middle School coach) the first time he scouted Eriel McKee in rec league as a fourth or fifth grader.

 

A few years later, with what would end being the nucleus of the past four or five ACHS teams, he won a middle school state title.

 

He built that feeder program up from the ground and has dedicated his life to coaching these girls.

 

Couldn't have happened to a better person.

I saw them play at Campbellsville last week. Seemed young but played GRC well and beat a pretty good large county team.