Edgewood boys basketball coach Matt Wadsworth moving on to Hauser

Interestingly, Whiteland's current head coach, Nate Cangany, was hired out of Hauser to replace Wadsworth in 2019.

Wadsworth takes over for Trent Moorhead (79-27), who left Hauser after four years to take over at Center Grove. Moorhead lead the Jets to semi-state the past two years, only to lose to the eventual state champs by narrow margins. Moorhead's brother Brad, now head coach at South Ripley, was an assistant under Wadsworth at Edgewood.

Hauser will play South Ripley on Dec. 11.

Edgewood will get to work quickly on finding a successor, with summer activities right around the corner. The Mustangs are not rushing the process at the expense of making the right hire. As of Monday afternoon, the administration had not received an official letter of resignation from Wadsworth.

"Once the position is open, and I hope that happens soon, we'll take applications for the next couple of weeks," Bland said. "And if we get what we need, or a good assortment of candidates, we'll move to set up interviews.

"In a perfect, ideal world, we'll have someone in place by the start of June, which is a pretty significant month for basketball."

A lot of team activities take place in June before players turn to more travel team action in July.

Eastern Greene hires two

Eastern Greene has named a pair of former T-Birds as its new volleyball and girls basketball coaches.

Nathan Martindale, who coached the middle school girls basketball team and is the middle school athletic director, has stepped up to the varsity position. He has also previously coached the EG girls golf team.

The staff includes Josh Cunningham (JV coach), Jarrod Bahr (varsity assistant) and Lexi Brough (volunteer assistant).

Dara James is the new volleyball coach. She has previously coached for Eastern Greene at the middle school level.

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