Graves led Birmingham-Southern to three NCAA Division III tournament berths.
Chris Graves, shown on the sidelines with his Birmingham-Southern basketball team in an undated file photo, is the new boys' basketball coach at Albertville High School.The Albertville City Board of Education voted unanimously on Tuesday morning to hire Chris Graves as the new head basketball coach for Albertville High. Graves became available with the closing of Birmingham-Southern College, where he had been head coach since 2011.
“The superintendent Dr. Reeves has been awesome and Matt has been first class through this whole process. It feels like a good fit for my family. If you’re going to move, you want to be where you believe in the community, the school and what the program is all about. I had a real comfortable feeling with the leadership of the school system.”
“I’m a Birmingham-Southern graduate,” Albertville AD Lambert said. “I played baseball there for coach Brian Shoop, so Birmingham-Southern has always been a special place for me. I knew coach Graves and followed his career there. I hate that the school is closing, but the Lord’s timing is always perfect. The door was open at Albertville and Birmingham-Southern was closing its doors. Coach Graves was the first person I called.
“He’s going to be an awesome coach on the court, but he will have a bigger impact on our guys’ hearts and character. He will help them to be good husbands and fathers. They will benefit more than just on the basketball court.” Graves is scheduled to meet with the Albertville community at a reception today at 6:30 p.m. in the gymnasium lobby.
Graves said his preferred style of play comes from the BSC tradition of Duane Reboul. “If you’ve watched Samford or Mountain Brook with Bucky McMillan or Huntsville High with coach Schweers, we run that system. But you have to use the talent you have and be adaptable enough to play the system that works with your guys.
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