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LENOIR – Jesse Beane, who has coached junior varsity boys’ basketball at West Caldwell High and also worked as a key varsity assistant under former varsity head coach Danny Anderson, will guide the Warriors this season.
In an announcement on Wednesday by school officials, they selected Beane to replace Antonio Lyerly, who resigned after two seasons.
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West Caldwell athletic director Stephen McMasters said Beane will serve as interim head coach for the Warriors when they play this season as a 3A school in the Northwestern 3A-4A.
“The search and process has been a long and tedious one,” McMasters said in a press release. “However, we wanted to make sure we had the best fit for our school and program.
“ I am confident that Jesse will do a very good job in continuing the tradition of excellence in Warrior(s) basketball.
“He has some great ideas as to how we can get our program back to the foundations that Warrior(s) basketball was founded on.”
West Caldwell went 18-8 last year, finishing 12-2 and second in the Southern District 7 Athletic 2A before falling in the second round of the state 2A playoffs to Black Mountain Owen.
The year before, they were 11-14 overall and were ousted by Shelby in the opening round of the state playoffs after finishing fourth in the SD-7 2A under Lyerly, a former athletic star at Newton-Conover.
Beane coached two seasons of JV basketball for the Warriors, in 2014 and 2015, and his teams went 33-7 (19-1 in his last season).
During that time, Beane was an assistant to Anderson, now head boys’ varsity coach at Maiden, on teams that went 18-8 and 18-6 and reached the state playoffs.
West Caldwell has reached the postseason each of the last 37 seasons.
Beane is a West Caldwell graduate (2004) and graduated from Lenoir-Rhyne University, where he played baseball on scholarship, in 2008.
He is the eighth person to guide the boys’ basketball program at West Caldwell. Anderson had two tenures there and the other head coaches were Jackie Teague, Jack Hoke, Andy Anderson (Danny’s brother), Dennis Smart, Hank Newson and Lyerly.