By Bobby Mathews, Sports Editor
TRUSSVILLE — The Tribune has learned that Hewitt-Trussville High School is set to hire Springville head coach Jeremy Monceaux as the next basketball coach for the Huskies, pending approval from the Trussville City Schools Board of Education.
Jeremy Monceaux file photo.
Multiple sources close to the hiring process who spoke on the condition of anonymity have confirmed that Monceaux will be hired, potentially as early as today, April 14. The TCS Board of Education has called a special meeting for 8:15 a.m. to discuss, among other things, “personnel,” according to an email from the school system.
Monceaux completed one season with Springville, compiling a 21-6 record and going 6-2 in 6A Area 13 play. The Tigers won a pair of tournaments under his leadership, including the St. Clair County tournament. They went into the Area 13 tournament as the odds-on favorite, but wound up in the runner-up spot and lost on the road to a powerhouse Huffman team, coming within four points of upsetting the eventual 6A state finalist.
The Huskies’ head coaching job opened up after Jeff Baker resigned on February 14 of this year. Monceaux’s job will be to turn around a historically strong Huskies program that has struggled over the past several years.
Hewitt-Trussville hasn’t had a winning basketball season since 2017-2018 when the Huskies finished 15-10 under Marcus Thomas.
Monceaux, 38, was named head coach at Clay-Chalkville in 2014, leading the Cougars for seven seasons. During his final year with Clay-Chalkville, the Cougars went 21-5, won an area title and went to the Elite 8 in the AHSAA 6A state tournament.
Monceaux won 21 games or more three times in seven years with Clay-Chalkville and compiled a 122-81 record there before moving on to coach at Springville. He’s 133-87 overall as a head coach. Prior to leading the prep programs at Clay and Springville, he served as a collegiate assistant at Campbellsville University in Kentucky and at Faulkner University in Montgomery.
Monceaux, a Trussville resident, graduated in 2002 from Parkway Christian Academy, a Class 1A school. While at Parkway Christian, Monceaux set several records for boys’ basketball in the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA), including single-season points (1,333), career points (4,555), single-season field goals made (458) and single-season free throws made (427). While some of those records have since fallen, Monceaux is well known as a winner — both as a coach and player.
During his career, he became only the third Alabama high school player to ever collect 1,000-plus assists with 1,035. He also holds the record for the most 50-point games (20) and is the only player in AHSAA history to average 36-plus points per game in three straight years, doing so from 1998-2001 (40.4, 40.4, 36.8).
Monceaux played collegiate basketball at Liberty University. He was named to the Big South All-Freshman Team in 2002-03 and was part of the 2003-04 Big South championship team which received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. His playing career was reportedly cut short due to injury.
