NTMWD 2025 Summer

Kelley leads Raiders into new era

by | Nov 11, 2021 | Latest, Sports

After missing the postseason in six of their last seven years, Wylie East is ready to course correct under new boys basketball coach Brent Kelley.

They finished 3-11 in district play last season, being swept by Princeton and Lovejoy. Wylie East ended up with a 7-20 overall record and the Raiders hired a new head coach.

Kelley is familiar with leading a program to success. In his eight years as the head coach at Whitehouse, he led the Wildcats to a record of 142-109 with three district championships and a trip to the regional semifinals in 2017-18.

Wylie East marked their first week of practices Oct. 27. After joining the team in April, Kelley said he’s been pleased by his team’s effort in the early process.

“It seems like it’s gone by quick,” Kelley said. “But when you really think about where we were when we started and where we are now, it’s been a long process. It’s gone by quickly, which I guess is a good thing. It’s been a pretty good week. Right now we’re just trying to put good days together and have bad days mixed in there. Our goal is consistency as we go through this week, which is a real grind.”

For the complete story, see the Nov. 10 edition of The Wylie News. Support your community newspaper for less than $40 a year.

By Jackson King * [email protected]

Collin Summer 2025

Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property ET_Builder_Module_Comments::$et_pb_unique_comments_module_class is deprecated in /home/csmediatexas/wylienews/wp-content/themes/Divi/includes/builder/class-et-builder-element.php on line 1380

0 Comments

Subscribe RH Love

Related News

School bond database approved

School bond database approved

The Texas Legislature on Tuesday, May 20 passed Senate Bill 843, a measure that will require the Texas Education Agency to develop a publicly accessible online database containing detailed financial information about school district and charter school bonds, taxes and...

read more
Annual event celebrates music, community

Annual event celebrates music, community

Bluegrass Heritage Foundation founder, Alan Tompkins, left, can often be found playing the upright bass with the band Hillbilly Fever, or playing banjo with Bobby Giles and the Texas Gales. See them play May 31 at Olde City Park. File photo Bluegrass music returns to...

read more
New Juneteenth Court crowned in Wylie

New Juneteenth Court crowned in Wylie

At the Juneteenth pageant Saturday, May 17, Rylie Parker, left, was crowned Lil Miss Wylie Juneteenth Queen, Brielle Dent, center, received the title of Jr. Miss Wylie Juneteenth Queen, and Alanah Tyson was named Miss Teen Wylie Juneteenth Queen. Courtesy Bee...

read more
Wylie PD arrests suspect in aggravated robbery

Wylie PD arrests suspect in aggravated robbery

Wylie police have arrested an 18-year-old local man in connection with the armed robbery of a vape and tobacco shop that occurred last week. Joseph Calderon Jr., of Wylie, was taken into custody early Monday morning, May 19, and charged with aggravated robbery, police...

read more
Bigger in Texas

Bigger in Texas

Seven Texas cities, including four from Collin County, lead the nation in percentage of population growth, according to U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2024 data released Thursday, May 15. The Census Bureau said Princeton ranked No. 1 with a 30.6% growth rate, up from...

read more
Order photos