Elizabeth Metress joins family business of basketball with new job at Coastal Carolina

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Augusta College males’s basketball coach Dip Metress has devoted his skilled life to the sport of basketball. So it’s no shock his daughter Elizabeth shares his similar ardour for the sport. Now, she’s going to start her skilled profession because the director of girls’s basketball operations at Coastal Carolina College underneath new head coach Kevin Pederson.

Metress got here to Conway, South Carolina after spending 5 years working with the Georgia Bulldogs ladies’s basketball program as each a scholar supervisor and graduate assistant coach. She started her profession as a scholar supervisor in 2017 till 2020 when she was promoted to a graduate assistant coach.

She spent many summers working her dad’s basketball camp at Augusta College and loved a profitable taking part in profession at Grovetown Excessive College. Dip Metress, who simply wrapped up his 18th season on the helm of the Jaguars, recollects taking her to her first recreation when she was simply 4 weeks previous.

“She’s type of come full circle on this basketball world,” stated Dip. “She all the time wished tp pursue this dream of teaching basketball, regardless of my arguments generally to don’t do that. However she’s undoubtedly pursuing one thing she loves. And training may be very exhausting, since you don’t know when your alternative goes to come back about.”

Dip laughed when he talked about that Elizabeth will formally transfer out of the home on Monday. However earlier than that, there are some rites of passage left to get pleasure from in Athens, Georgia. “She graduates Thursday, and can stroll throughout the stage at Stegeman Coliseum on Friday,” added Dip. “She’s already began working in Myrtle Seaside. It’s an unbelievable alternative at 23 years-old to be on the employees with a brand new coach and an incredible, rising college.”

Elizabeth Metress holds a bachelor’s diploma in arithmetic training and a minor in sport administration together with a grasp’s diploma in kinesiology from the College of Georgia.

Dip Metress will maintain his annual children basketball camp at Augusta College from June 20-24.