With a roster filled with sophomores, freshman and eighth graders, Holmes High School has decided to not field a varsity girls basketball team for the 2024-25 season and play a freshman and JV schedule.
Athletic Director Ken Ellis confirmed not fielding a varsity team via email on Wednesday.
The Lady Bulldogs went 3-28 during the 2023-24 season, two of those wins against Williamstown, the other against Dayton. Tracy Pope resigned after two seasons with the program and Zuri Hill was named the new coach.
Hill previously coached the seventh grade girls basketball team at Holmes Middle School. She began her high school basketball career at Holmes and played for the Bulldogs as a sophomore. She concluded her career at Boone County where she played alongside area great Sydney Moss for legendary coach Nell Fookes.
Holmes was really young last season with just one senior on the roster. They were supposed to have just one senior this year.
The program is just six years removed from the 9th Region championship game and won 9th Region titles in 2016 and ’17, also making the 9th Region title game in 2015. In 2016 they made the Elite 8 and 2017 they reached the Final Four.
