Willis steps down as St. Al basketball coach for job at Jackson Prep
Published 4:58 pm Saturday, June 29, 2024
- St. Aloysius girls’ basketball coach K.K. Willis watches her team play during a game last season. Willis announced Saturday that she is leaving St. Al to take an assistant coach position with Jackson Prep. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)
For the third year in a row, St. Aloysius will have a new girls basketball coach.
K.K. Willis announced Saturday that she is stepping down from her position at St. Al to join the coaching staff at Jackson Prep. Willis will be the head coach of Prep’s eighth-grade team, and assist with the varsity and junior high teams.
Willis was a basketball star at Porter’s Chapel Academy in the early 2000s. She was hired in February 2023 and spent one season as St. Al’s coach, after Savannah Buck held the job for two years.
“I’ll never forget or be able to express enough gratitude to my Flashes family for the opportunity y’all gave me,” Willis wrote on social media in announcing the move. “You welcomed me with open arms, worked around my school schedule and caretaking for my Dad as I first started the job, treated me like family, contributed to needs for the girls basketball program, and walked with me through the loss of a dad and sister while showing me great love in a year and a half’s time. I couldn’t have asked for a better first school as I entered back into this game I love.”
About Ernest Bowker
Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post’s sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post’s sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper’s 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.
