Former Hermon ladies basketball coach lands assistant job at Colby Faculty
Former Hermon Excessive College ladies basketball coach Chris Cameron, who led his Hawks to 2 Class B North championships in his eight years on the helm, is shifting on to the faculty ranks as an assistant coach for the ladies’s basketball group at Colby Faculty in Waterville.
He might be becoming a member of a Colby Faculty workers led by head coach Chenel Harris-Smith, who has compiled a report of 28-39 throughout her 4 seasons. One season was wiped up by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Mules have been 8-14 a yr in the past.
Cameron, who stepped down after this previous season, compiled an general report of 112-33 at Hermon, excluding the COVID-19 marketing campaign when there have been no tournaments.
His Hawks have been 99-26 throughout common season play and 13-7 within the postseason.
Cameron truly spent two months this spring as an assistant coach at Thomas Faculty, which can be in Waterville, earlier than taking the Colby job.
He mentioned that he and Thomas head coach Jason Coleman are shut associates and Coleman inspired him to “go ahead with the method” of taking the Colby job after it got here open.
“He gave me his blessing,” Cameron mentioned.
“I’m tremendous excited for this chance and to educate on the school stage as a full-time job,” mentioned the 51-year-old Cameron, who had been an athletic fundraiser. “I’m actually blissful to hitch an establishment which is elite athletically and academically. NESCAC is a superb convention.”
He had been working on the Colby Faculty in a single day summer time basketball camps, the place he met Harris-Smith.
The Glenburn native and former Orono Excessive soccer and basketball participant will tackle a wide range of roles at Colby together with the recruitment of gamers from Maine and New Hampshire, scheduling sport journeys and accommodations, particular person participant conferences, and on-court observe classes.
“Recruiting is a type of issues I need to be taught extra about. It’s such an important piece in school athletics,” mentioned Cameron, who performed basketball at Bangor’s Husson College after spending two years at Dean Junior Faculty.
The Hawks gained a match sport and reached at the very least the semifinals in each season besides this previous yr, once they went 9-9 through the common season after which misplaced to Foxcroft Academy of Dover-Foxcroft 51-37 in a preliminary spherical sport.
They have been Class B North champs in 2021-22 and in 2019-20.
They misplaced to Oceanside of Rockland 31-28 within the ’22 state title sport and to Wells 34-26 in extra time within the ’20 remaining.
They misplaced simply two common season video games or fewer, 4 occasions.
Cameron known as his time at Hermon a constructive expertise however he determined to step down when his daughter, Allie, graduated.
He mentioned on the time that it was at all times behind his thoughts to go away as soon as the group of gamers he had helped coach since pre-kindergarten graduated from Hermon.
Cameron’s daughter is at the moment taking part in soccer at Bangor’s Husson College, from the place he himself graduated in 1996 with a level in sports activities administration.
