Meeks brings coaching experience in BBCC AD role
Newly hired Big Bend Athletic Director John Meeks spent 17 years as both an assistant and head basketball coach across the Southern US.
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“From the age of 19 I was put on the road, I was recruiting,” Big Bend Athletic Director John Meeks said of his coaching beginnings. “I was thrust into trying to coach the same guys that I had played with the year before and just a lot of learning on the fly.”
John Meeks breaks down a play with his team during a game. Meeks was named to his first college head coaching role at the age of 25.
Ian Bivona serves as the Columbia Basin Herald’s sports reporter and is a graduate of Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. He enjoys the behind-the-scenes stories that lead up to the wins and losses of the various sports teams in the Basin. Football is his favorite sport, though he likes them all, and his favorite team is the Jets. He lives in Soap Lake with his cat, Honey. | July 27, 2022 5:37 PM
MOSES LAKE – John Meeks has spent more than 15 years as a basketball coach, and now, he’s taking his talents to another realm of college athletics.
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