Although she has served as assistant volleyball coach at Locust Grove for the last two seasons, Devon Teknipp admits she had some early trepidation after she was named her alma mater’s head coach in April, succeeding Nita Gilbert, who’d held the job for nearly a dozen years.
“There were times at the beginning of the season when I called Coach Gilbert and told her she could have the job back,” joked Teknipp, who added that Gilbert was her high school coach. “And she refused, of course. But we got it all together and got things figured out.
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