A familiar face will be back on the Ludlow sidelines next season.
The Panthers hired Dan Sullivan to be the next boys’ basketball coach, replacing Aaron Stamm, who took the Bishop Brossart girls’ basketball job last month.
Sullivan coached the Panthers from 2018-22. He carries more than 30 years of coaching experience with him. He was the head coach at Campbell County for nine seasons and four seasons with Walton-Verona.
“Please welcome back Dan Sullivan as the boys basketball coach,” the school released. “Coach Sullivan looks forward to returning to LHS to continue building on the success of the LHS boys basketball program. He is very excited and grateful to get the opportunity to work with this talented group of young men.”
In Sullivan’s first stint with Ludlow, he went 64-55 over four seasons. He was then an assistant on his son Vance’s staff at Gallatin County the past couple of seasons. He’s won over 200 games as a head coach. His first head coaching job was at Walton-Verona, going 60-46 in four seasons from 1990-94. He then became head coach at Campbell County and compiled a 126-118 record in nine seasons from 1994-2003.
In 2001, he led the Camels to a 10th Region title and a trip to the KHSAA Sweet 16.
Sullivan takes over a team that graduated four seniors and finished 16-15 in the 2024-25 season. The Panthers won their third straight NKAC Division III title in the process. Among the four graduates were three of the team’s top four leading scorers. Spencer Brandenburg (17.4 points per game), Joseph Scott (12.8) and Byron Conley (9.6) all depart, but they’re expected to return freshman Logan Day and sophomore Gage Grider, two of five that played in all 31 games last season. Of the eight that played in at least 22 games last season, four were underclassmen.
The boys’ 34th District has had a lot of coaching turnover the past two seasons. St. Henry and Ludlow will present two new coaches after Dave Faust retired and Tim Sullivan came in from Cooper for the Crusaders, Dan Sullivan being another new face for the upcoming season. Dixie Heights’ Scott Code and Villa Madonna’s James Meyers will be coaching their second season this upcoming year. Lloyd Memorial’s Mike Walker now the longest tenured coach in the district, entering his sixth season.