North Augusta names Scheraun King as head girls basketball coach
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The successor of Al Young’s high school girls basketball dynasty has been solidified.
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North Augusta has picked Scheraun King to become the new head coach of the Yellow Jackets girls basketball team ahead of the 2026-27 season. This comes on the heels of Young’s retirement this spring after leading his squad to their seventh SCHSL state title in the last 10 seasons.
King most recently was the head coach of the Heritage (Conyers, Ga.) High School’s boys basketball team. Over three seasons in that role, the Patriots went 28-53 and made a trip to the GHSA Class 6A state playoffs once where they bowed out in the first round.
“He was by far our best choice,” said Casey Crane, North Augusta’s athletic director. “We had quite a few applicants, but he was clearly the best candidate. Felt like he fit what we needed at the school to replace a legend.”
While Crane didn’t give many specifics on what made King stand out amongst the competition, he did mention that King’s background as a math teacher in addition to his coaching career was a key differentiator for why he got hired.
King jumped at the chance to be considered for the job when he heard about the opening. Understanding the history of the program, he saw it as a new and exciting change in his career. King also looked at it as a challenge that would push him and allow him to grow as a coach.
“It’s kind of like the San Antonio Spurs,” King said of the North Augusta girls basketball program. “You’re coming behind a great coach who led a great foundation with Coach Cummings and Coach Young. Now I’m trying to make my own way and hopefully get my name on some banners just like them.”
How King made it to North Augusta
King was born and raised in Staten Island, New York. He played high school basketball at Curtis High School and became a 1000-point scorer in three years on varsity. King would go onto play college basketball at Albany State before playing overseas in countries such as Italy, Bolivia and Mexico.
During King’s time overseas, he started a family. With all the traveling that came with being a professional basketball player, he began missing his kid’s birthdays and other milestone events. That pushed him to retire from playing overseas. Once King made it back to the states, he decided to fully pursue coaching.
Prior to going overseas, King was a graduate assistant at Albany State. He used that experience to begin coaching girls middle school basketball in the Atlanta area. Before long, King found his way to Heritage, where he was able to get his feet wet coaching high school boys basketball. It was during these years that allowed King to develop his philosophy as a coach and what he looks for in his teams.
“Toughness on and off the court, effort and energy is always going to be a given,” King said. “Those things for me are something that you can’t teach, it’s something that has to be in them, and it’s also something that is really, really important on the basketball court and also in life.”
King recognizes just how big the shoes are that he is looking to fill as head coach of one of the modern day dynasties in high school sports. The standard for the Yellow Jackets over the last decade has been domination and championships. King’s résumé doesn’t reflect that type of winning.
But for the foreseeable future, he’ll have the opportunity to prove whether his name will be mentioned in the same breath as Cummings and Young, or if it’ll just be a footnote in the North Augusta history books.
“Trust the process, allow me to grow these bumps and bruises and through these growing pains that we may have throughout the season,” King said. “I’m gonna do my best to make sure these guys are well prepared and ready for each and every game and hopefully getting to that standard that is at North Augusta.”
This article originally appeared on Augusta Chronicle: Scheraun King takes over as North Augusta girls basketball coach