Augusta Preparatory School in Martinez is getting ready to welcome a new head coach for its boys basketball team.
Kim Schlein, who is set to fill the role, spent this school year working as an assistant coach for the boys team under Coach Sam Gruber. Gruber made the decision to step down after four years in the role, as he takes on a new position as an upper school history teacher this coming school year.
Schlein retired last May after over 30 years of coaching in the Richmond County School System, with 20 years of Cross Creek girls basketball, eight years of Hephzibah High girls basketball and three years of Morgan Road Middle basketball and softball under her belt.
“[Gruber’s] done a great job with the program and I really enjoyed sitting beside him this year,” said Schlein. “I just want to continue the success that Coach Gruber has already laid out, you know, and it’s gonna be a learning experience.”
When she takes over, Schlein said it’ll be a rebuilding year for the team.
“We lost quite a few seniors this year who were starters, you know, so we’ll be pretty much rebuilding some of the things this year,” she added. “But I look forward to the challenge of trying to get them back up to where he left it.”
Schlein said that growing up, her father was a local little league basketball and softball coach.
“I was always around it. I knew from a young age, I wanted to be a coach,” she said.
