GDW Analysis:
HANCEVILLE: Hanceville High School has filled the vacancy of basketball coach the 3A school informed Gameday Weekly Wednesday.
Tyler Yearwood, a 2015 graduate of Fairview High School has accepted the offer.
Yearwood has spent several seasons as an assistant coach on the staffs at Holly Pond, Decatur and Athens.
Athens is where he will be coming from.
Hanceville principal Daniel Wakefield is pleased in sharing conversation with GDW once the news became official.
Yearwood played for Kurt Knight at Fairview in 2 years of varsity basketball.
Yearwood takes over a program that posted 99 wins in 8 years under Stephen Chandler who retired shortly after the season ended.
Hanceville will compete in area play in 3A of the AHSAA the next two years with Holly Pond, Vinemont and Susan Moore.
In other news:
GUNTERSVILLE: Guntersville's winningest football coach has decided to call it a career.
Lance Reese reported his retirement via public on March 17.
Reese has been in command of Guntersville football for 16 years, leading the Wildcats to 137 victories against 46 losses and an impressive 81 & 23 mark in regional games.
Guntersville was consistent on the gridiron with 7 consecutive winning seasons from 2019 to 2025.
The Wildcats averaged 9 wins in this span and were sound in their region, going 35 & 7.
Reese, who is a Cullman graduate, follows the pattern of Fairview coach George Redding who retired from the sport back in February.
Redding built Fairview into a winner at 139 & 71, the best in the history of the sport from the Cullman County school system.
Fairview recently replaced Redding with defensive coordinator Brian Simmons to lead the Aggies into the future.
Guntersville will now go through the process with no timetable being reported by the program in Marshall County.
GDW photo by Johnny Thornton.
