HIGH SCHOOL

Tomas Brock is Hillcrest's new coach

Kary Booher
News-Leader
High school basketball illustration.

Former Mount Vernon standout Tomas Brock is the new Hillcrest High School boys basketball coach, Springfield Public Schools has announced.

It is the first head coaching job for Brock, the son of former Mount Vernon coach Skip Brock and a one-time Missouri State Bear. Brock finished his career at Southwest Baptist University and spent the past season as an assistant at East Central University in Ada, Okla., working for former Drury assistant Ja Havens.

Hillcrest was without a coach after John Schaefer resigned in order to take the athletic director/boys basketball job at Belton High School.

Brock inherits a Hillcrest program that will feature Brady Petry, one of the area's top college recruits. Hillcrest finished 18-9 this past season, losing in the Class 4 District 10 championship to Marshfield, 75-73.

Under Schaefer, the Hornets won the Class 5 state championship in 2010 and finished as runner-up finish in Class 5 in 2012. The Hornets were 158-48 in his seven seasons.

The News-Leader will have more on this story later tonight.

Brock will host a Hillcrest basketball player and parent meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday in the HYPER.

In addition, Robin Collins has been named volleyball coach at Hillcrest. Collins has served as assistant volleyball coach at Hillcrest for more than a decade under coach Karen Fielding, who retired this spring.

SPS has also hired Allison Davis as volleyball coach at Parkview High School. Previously, Davis was coach for three years at Pierce City High School.