July 17, 2022
Edited by: Dwayne Page
A new coaching staff is now in place to lead the DeKalb County High School junior basketball program.
Joey Agee, DeKalb West School assistant principal and former DeKalb Middle School youth coach, will succeed John Sanders, who recently resigned as Tigers head coach, while Cody Randolph will join Coach Agee. as an assistant coach. Randolph arrives at DCHS from DeKalb Middle School, where he has coached the Saints’ boys’ basketball for the past eight years. Randolph succeeds former assistant basketball coach Tiger Logan Vance, who has accepted a position as a basketball teacher and coach at Smith County Middle School. Coaches Agee and Randolph will teach wellness and physical education at DCHS.
The announcement was made Friday by DCHS Director Bruce Curtis.
“We were fortunate to find our new men’s basketball coaches and assistant coaches here at home. These two guys are already inside the system. They have a lot of background knowledge and know the kids. We expect great things from them. I want to welcome them to this new venture,” Principal Curtis said.
“I’m delighted,” said coach Agee. “I’ve wanted to come back to training for a while now because I missed the game as a manager. God saw fit for this to happen now and I can do it with Cody who is a good friend of mine. In fact, we are related. Her grandfather and mine are brothers, so we’ve known each other most of our lives. He took over from college when I went to West School as assistant principal, and he did a good job with the Saints. I have a daughter in high school, so I know a lot of kids and watched them grow up. There is talent here. They are athletic and we have grown children. I think there is a lot of potential for big things. I look forward to working with them,” Coach Agee said.
After graduating from DCHS in 1999, Agee continued his education at Tennessee Tech, where he earned a degree in health and physical education, then became a physical education teacher in 2003 and began his career as a junior basketball coach at DeKalb Middle School. Agee earned her master’s degree in instructional leadership in 2010. Eight years ago, Agee left DeKalb Middle School to become an assistant principal at DeKalb West School. He and his wife Casey reside in Alexandria. They have two daughters, Averie, a sophomore at DCHS, and Jordyn who will soon be a seventh student at DeKalb West School.
Randolph graduated from DCHS in 2006 and moved to Tennessee Tech where he earned a BA in physical education in 2011. The following year Randolph was hired at DCHS to teach wellness and helped former coach of Lynus Martin boys basketball for a year. In 2014, Randolph joined the staff of DeKalb Middle School as a physical education teacher and head basketball coach for the Saints. He and his wife Amelia have three sons, Dawson, Corbin and McCoy.
“I am delighted with the opportunity to work with Coach Agee. I was about to leave practice. I had already quit my coaching job in college and felt the Lord was leading me away from coaching, but within a few months this (opportunity) opened up. I coached a lot of these kids here in middle school and high school and I’m thrilled to be able to reconnect with these kids at the high school level,” Randolph added.
Former DMS Saints assistant coach Ethan Vanhook will take over as Saints head coach. The post of Lady Saints head coach remains vacant with the recent resignation of manager Loree Hall.
The new reassignments come more than a month after DCHS Lady Tiger Basketball and Tigerette Softball Coach Danny Fish decided to leave DCHS to become the Warren County Boys’ Head Coach. Brandy Alley was later named to replace Coach Fish as Lady Tiger basketball coach and Danielle Tyson Horton will take over the Tigerette program.
