Girls Basketball Coach

Two weeks from tomorrow, Annapolis girls basketball coach Teresa Ross will experience a happy/sad kind of day -- happy because she will be wed and sad because of the girls she will leave behind.Ross will be married in Annapolis on March 27 to Ralph McBarron, a sports promotions director in Kansas, and then depart for a new life in the Midwest. It will be tough to say goodbye to a group of girls she has become very attached to.Ross, a 28-year-old graduate of High Point in Princes George's County and Loyola College in Baltimore, where she played three years of basketball, turned a dreadful girls program at Annapolis into one of the metro area's best in her three years there.

Credit Francis Scott Key High girls basketball coach Brian Hollingsworth with an assist in the search for a new coach at Westminster High.Bernie Koontz of Emmitsburg in Frederick County has been chosen as the new coach of the Owls, said Westminster High athletic directorJeff Oeming. Koontz already has visited the school to meet with prospective players.Koontz replaces Dave Brown, who decided not to return as the girls basketball and golf coach at Westminster. Brown said earlier this fall that he stepped down from both jobs to spend more time with his family, adding that his oldest child is starting to get involved in athletics.