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 Brad
Gray
NAHS Boys Basketball
Brad Gray enters his second season as Head Boys' Basketball Coach at New Albany
High School. Coach Gray came to New Albany from Lewisburg High School in Olive
Branch where he had been Head Basketball Coach for two seasons. Prior to that,
he was head coach for both basketball and baseball at Hickory Flat High School.
A Senatobia native, Gray is a graduate of the University of Mississippi.
He holds a B.A. in Secondary Education, with an emphasis in Social
Studies. He also attended Northwest Community College where he
was a member of the baseball team.
Coach Gray is married to Jessica and they have two children Jake
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 Joe Dan Roberts
Assistant Boys Basketball Coach
Joe Dan Roberts is in his first season as Assistant Boys and JV Coach for Brad
Gray. Coach Roberts is a 1996 graduate of Pontotoc High School where he played
for Cory Uselton. After high school, Coach Roberts signed with NEMCC and lettered
for two seasons playing for Coach Mike Lewis. Coach Roberts then signed with
Mississippi College in 1998 and was there until 2000, lettering once for Coach
Mike Jones. Coach Roberts obtained his B.A. in English from Ole Miss and is currently
working with NAMS and NAHS.
Coach Roberts is married to the former Allison Boatner from Tupelo
and they are expecting their first child in December.
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John
Stroud
NAHS Girls Basketball
Coach Stroud has coached the New Albany High School girls’ team since 2005.
A graduate of the University of Mississippi, John Stroud was an Ole Miss and
SEC standout and still holds several school and SEC records. He played for the
NBA Houston Rockets from 1980-82, and then played a year of professional basketball
in Spain. In 1983-84 he was an assistant basketball coach at the University of
Alabama. From 1985-1989, Coach Stroud was head coach of the W.P. Daniel High
School (former name of New Albany High School) boys’ team: winning back
to back state championships in 1986 and 1987.
Stroud left New Albany to become Head Coach at East Mississippi
Community College from 1988-1990. In 1990, he became the Head Basketball
Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at Milsaps College in Jackson,
MS until 2003.
Coach Stroud owns the Stroud Insurance agency in New Albany. He
and his wife Billye Jean have two daughters, Caroline and Anna
Francis, who are students in the New Albany Schools.
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 Don Reed
Assistant Boys/Girls Coach, Middle School Basketball
Coach Reed has previous experience in coaching basketball, baseball, softball, and golf at Hickory Flat High School. He served as New Albany's assistant Boy's Basketball coach under Tony Elliott from 2002-2005.
Coach Reed is a graduate of Hickory Flat High School and has degrees from Northwest Community College (where he was member of the Ranger Basketball team) as well as Ole Miss with a Bachelors degree in Recreation Administration.
He is married to the former Melissa Elliott from New Site. They have 3 sons, Tyler 16, Trey 10 and Eli 3
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 Alicia Pickens
Assistant Coach, Girls High School Basketball
Alicia Pickens (Coach P.) is a graduate of Pine Grove High School and a 2006 graduate of Blue Mountain College where she majored in Secondary English Education and Social Science. She has been the assistant basketball coach for the New Albany Bulldogs for four years. She is in her third year of teaching at New Albany Middle School where she is the instructor for ICT I. She is married to Jeran Pickens of Blue Springs and they are expecting their first child, a daughter, in November.
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