Former University of Maine assistant basketball coach Randy Lee has been named the varsity boys basketball coach at Orono High School.
Lee received approval for the job at an Orono school board meeting two weeks ago.
Lee said he is leaving the Black Bears staff for several reasons.
“It’s a combination really of a private business venture and the coaching job at Orono,” Lee said.
The Orono coaching job became available in August when Aaron Watson, who had spent 11 years coaching varsity and junior varsity sports at Orono, resigned from both the varsity basketball and baseball coaching positions.
Orono athletic director Mike Archer said that the school received seven applications for the basketball job. Lee was chosen after the field had been narrowed to three.
“The overriding thing for us was his experience having coached seven years of Division I basketball and his high school experience as well. That certainly was attractive to us,” Archer said.
Lee joins Orono after spending one year as an assistant under University of Maine head coach John Giannini.
Lee becomes the second assistant coach to leave the men’s basketball staff this month.
Seven-year assistant Ed Jones recently left Orono to take the head coaching position of the Maine Central Institute Postgrad basketball team in Pittsfield.
Prior to coming to Maine, Lee spent one year as an assistant at Centenary College in Louisiana. Lee also served as an assistant coach at Towson (Md.) University and as video coordinator the University of Miami.
Lee also coached current Black Bears player Derrick Jackson at Richland Northwest High School in Columbia, S.C.
Lee said that communication is one of his strengths.
“I’m looking forward to continue to build on the tradition at Orono. I plan to keep open communications between the players and the parents.”
The coach said that he intends to combine that with an “old school approach” to discipline.
“I plan to let the players know where they stand,” Lee said.
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