Loomis
Local Sports
 on June 13, 2024
Former North Union Head Coach Bre Jackson speaks with the team during a timeout in a regular season game in 2022. Pending board approval, Mitchell Loomis will take over the Lady Cats’ program this upcoming season. (Gazette photo by Aleksei Pavloff)

Loomis tapped as new girls basketball head coach for 2024-25 winter season

By By Bob Putman, Richwood Gazette 

 

A change in the head coaching position of the North Union girls basketball program will not be as big a change as it might be in other programs.

Bre Jackson recently announced she was stepping down as the Lady Cats’ coach to take a position within Dublin City Schools system.

Pending board approval later this month, Mitchell Loomis has been hired to succeed Jackson.

The past two years Loomis was the boys junior varsity basketball coach and prior to that was the girls seventh-grade coach at North Union Middle …

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