The Amherst Girl’s Basketball team will be under a new head coach for the 2024-25 season as Adam Miller was chosen as the new head coach of the Falcons. This comes after the resignation of former head coach Brandon Trzebiatowski.
“I feel like I’m leaving the basketball program in good standings,” Trzebiatowski wrote to the school board in July. “There will be five returning seniors that I have worked with the past three years. These seniors are very knowledgeable about basketball and can help maintain the success they have achieved.”
To help the seniors, Miller brings numerous years of coaching to the table. “This will be my 15th year as a head coach. 6 years for boys and 9 years with girls. I have also been an assistant coach on Varsity for 4 years. I have coached multiple years at the middle school level as well, ” Miller said in an interview with The Talon. “I have been very lucky to coach some really good teams, and even the ones were we did not win a lot, I had some great athletes.”
This year won’t be the first time he’s been around the team. During the 2023-24 season, Miller was a supervisor for the home games, and saw the ups-and-downs of game day. “While I was at the games last year I saw the will to win and to never give up. I wish we would of had a JV2 team last year so more girls would of played.”
Building a strong JV2 team is one of his biggest goals in his first season coaching the Falcons. “My goals are to build a program like Amherst had years ago with 3 full teams and to put Amherst Girls Basketball on the map again.”
Outside of building up the program, Miller’s focus is to control the pace on the floor, although he knows things won’t change on day one. “We are going to be in shape and we will be able to run the floor….eventually. Things will not change overnight. We have a great core of seniors and they will be [the] building blocks to a program that will win.”
Amherst kicks off the 2024-25 season hosting the Auburndale Eagles on November 19, in non-conference action. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.
