Latta – Chris Page knows just a thing or two about winning basketball games at Latta High
School. He was a standout performer for the Vikings along with McDonald’s All-America teammate
Raymond Felton on the 2000 Class A state championship team.
Now Page hopes he’ll be able to translate what he helped do as a player over to the sidelines.
Page was named Latta’s new boys basketball head coach a couple of months ago.
“It feels good to be the head coach,” the 41-year-old Page said. “It’s a dream come true to be able
to be the head coach at the school you graduated from and won a state championship. I just feel fortunate
to be able to do it.”
This will be Page’s first time as a head coach on the varsity level. He has spent the last nine years
as the school’s junior varsity head coach and as an assistant under former head coach Chris German.
“Coach German decided he wanted to go a different path,” Page said. “He said that I had been his
assistant all of those years so he was going to push for me to be the new head coach.”
The fact that Page is familiar with all of the players he’s inheriting as a head coach is a major
plus. He hopes that his success as a player at Latta will help his players take a step forward.
“I feel like I bring my background along with me,” he said. “Hopefully that will carry on, that
they will see how I was as an athlete, and that I can help them. Hopefully, I’ll get them to understand, buy
into it and we’ll get things going.”
Page plans to push the envelope both on offense and defense.
“We’re going to press more,” he said. “|On offense we’re going to try to move the ball more, get
in different sets and try to be more aggressive.”
Page is one of just two new head coaches on the Latta staff. Genesis Anderson is the new
volleyball coach following the retirement of Kimberly Bean.
Robbie Brown returns as the athletic director and boys baseball head coach, while Jenny Melton
is back as softball coach. Brandon Iseman is again the football coach, Sandra Gomillion the girls
basketball coach, Chris Williams the boys and girls cross country coach, Sport Sawyer the boys and
girls track and field coach, Aaron Oxendine the boys golf coach and Jodie Branham the cheer coach.
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