Colony High in search of girls basketball coach; former mentor relieved of duties

PALMER – Tom Lincoln is no longer the head coach of the Colony High School girls basketball program, Colony High assistant principal Brendon McMahon confirmed Wednesday.

“Basically, we decided to go in a different direction,” McMahon said Wednesday of the move.

Lincoln was relieved of his duties just days after the end of the 2010-11 state tournament. Colony won the Northern Lights Conference title earlier this month, upsetting rival and eventual state champion Wasilla. The Knights entered the state tourney as the No. 3 seed, and finished 1-2 in the three-day event.

In his two years as head coach, Lincoln, who replaced longtime head coach Don Witzel, guided the Knights to NLC title game and state tournament in each of those seasons.

“Tom has been a really, really solid coach for us. He’s been around the Colony basketball program for a long time,” McMahon said. “We just decided to go in a different direction.”

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