Columbia Academy is pleased to announce that
Coach Dale Watts will assume the role of Varsity Boys’ basketball coach and
Junior High Boys’ basketball coach. Coach Watts is returning to his alma
mater. He is a 1971 graduate of Columbia Academy, where he served as Senior Class
President and was a key component of the 1971 State Champion Basketball team.
Coach Watts has previously coached at Centreville
Academy and Parklane Academy. While at Parklane Academy, his teams won a AAA State
and Overall State Championship in 1982, and an Overall State Championship in
1990. For the last nineteen years he has coached at Brookhaven Academy where
he has won seven of eight State AA Championships from 2003 until 2011, six of
which were consecutive. Watts stated, “I am extremely happy and excited to be
here. I feel like the community is ready to move forward and that is my
objective.”
Next year Columbia Academy will be moving up
within the MAIS to the classification of AAA, Division II. Columbia
Academy is pleased and excited to have Coach Watts lead our program while this
change is made. Both the High School Girls’ and the Junior High Girls’
teams will continue under the capable leadership of Coach Reid McCay.
Coach McCay has faithfully led the Cougars basketball teams in the past and previously
led the school to a State Championship in 2004.
