Clancy Hall named Hendersonville boys basketball head coach

Hendersonville High School boys’ basketball assistant Clancy Hall has been named as the Commandos’ new head coach.

Hall served as an assistant to Kerry West for the past seven years. West stepped down earlier in April after 18 years heading the program.

It is Hall’s second stint as a head coach at the school, as he was the girls’ head coach from the 2004-05 season until the 2010-11 campaign.

“It’s a chance to see things from the other side,” Hall said. “It’s an opportunity to continue the legacy that Coach West has built and we hope to do that as a coaching staff and as a program.”

Hall had a 72-120 record with the Lady Commandos, which included a Region 5-AAA Tournament appearance in the 2004-05 season.

“I thoroughly enjoyed the seven years I spent with the girls’ team,” Hall said. “One of the big things of high school athletics is building the relationships of the kids that have been entrusted to you, and so I hope to see the same through the guys.”

Hall played at Lipscomb University from 1995-96 until the 1999-2000 season and has been at Hendersonville since then.

Hall was also an assistant for the Commandos for four years before becoming the Lady Commandos’ head coach.

District 9-AAA teams have now seen four coaching changes in the past calendar year, as Hall joins Wilson Central’s Chris Carney, Beech’s Kip Brown and Portland’s Joshua Epperson as incoming head coaches since last April.