PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles High School hopes it has found its new boys basketball coach.
Kevin Reinhardt has been offered the job, which was vacated when previous head coach Brent Stephens resigned to become a head coach for the women’s basketball team at Feather River College in Quincy, Calif.
Reinhardt, who spent a few years playing professional basketball before becoming a coach, has not yet decided if he will accept the position at Port Angeles, according to the school’s athletic director Dwayne Johnson.
Johnson said he hopes Reinhardt will make a decision by the end of the week.
Reinhardt has been rising through the coaching ranks in Kentucky over the last five years.
He most recently served as an assistant coach at Holmes High School in Covington, Ky., this past season.
Before that, he was head coach from 2011 to 2013 at Nicholas County High School in Carlisle, Ky., where he inherited a 2-21 team and helped increase its win total to 8-24 then 12-18 in 2012-13.
That 2012-13 team made Nicholas’ first 10th Region tournament appearance in 13 years and was the district runner-up.
He also was a special education teacher at Nicholas.
Reinhardt also spent a year as an assistant at his alma mater, Campbell County High School in Alexandria, Ky.
His coaching career began when he founded and coached an AAU team.
Before that, Reinhardt had an impressive playing career.
He is Columbia County’s all-time leading scorer with over 2,000 points in his career. He also was chosen as the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati Player of the Year in 2001 and 2002, and is a member of the 10th Region Basketball Hall of Fame.
After high school, he earned a full athletic scholarship to play for Northern Kentucky University. There he was the Great Lakes Valley Conference Freshman of the Year, and he was a team captain and led the team in points and rebounds in 2005-06.
He finished his college career at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Ky.
In his one season there, he was named Mid-South Defensive Player of the Year, first-team all-conference, helping Georgetown go undefeated in conference play and finishing No. 3 in the NAIA rankings.
Reinhardt then played professional basketball, with the Southern Indiana Generals of the Kentucky Basketball Developmental League from 2007 thorugh 2009, and with the Georgia Grizzlies of the ABA in 2008-09.
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Sports Editor Lee Horton can be reached at 360-417-3525 or at lhorton@peninsuladailynews.com.
