Geddes, Jette take over at EFHS

Enosburg athletic director Chris Brigham confirmed today that Gary Geddes will supplant Jay Nichols as Enosburg varsity girls basketball coach and Steve Jette will take the reigns of the varsity boys basketball team from Robert Gervais.

Geddes has been a long-time coach in the successful Enosburg youth basketball program and is a former JV boys coach.

Nichols stepped down after leading the Hornets to one state title and a Final Four berth in two seasons. He's going to be a superintendent next school year and therefore unable to coach.

Jette, who was a star athlete at EFHS in the late 90s (I think - I know I covered his games back then, but the precise dates elude me). At any rate, he was one of Nichols' assistants the last two seasons and also helps coach other sports in the school. He takes over for Gervais, who ended his second stint as boys coach to concentrate on his new duties rebuilding the Johnson State College softball team, where his daughter Julie is a pitcher.

Both Jette and Geddes have large shoes to fill, but my personal experience with their successors leave me optimistic the future of the Hornet basketball program is in good hands.

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SHAWN CORROW, when he's not perhaps a little too pleased with himself for breaking his first bit of 'news' on his blog, is a freelance photojournalist based in Franklin, Vermont and the owner of Cold Hollow Photography.