Bowie hires boys and girls basketball coaches: Meet Trey Lindsey and Iesha Collins
Bowie basketball began a new era Friday with the announcement that head coaches have been hired for both the boys and girls teams.
The boys team will welcome home a familiar face in Trey Lindsey, a Bowie graduate who has served as an assistant at St. Edward’s University for the past four seasons. The girls team will be led by Iesha Collins, a Georgetown native who has spent the past three seasons as the lead girls basketball assistant for East View High School in the Georgetown school district.
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Lindsey replaces the recently retired Celester Collier while Collins replaces Vickie Benson, who took the Westlake job. Neither has been a head coach at the high school level, but Bowie head football coach and athletic coordinator Jeff Ables said their ability “to relate with our kids” will help strengthen the athletic program.
“Both are very eager, energetic young coaches who we’re excited about,” said Ables, who helped lead the job search. “We’re going from having a lot of experience to a lot of youth. We all have had our starts as head coaches, and this is their chance."
Lindsey helped the Hilltoppers amass a 69-16 record. Before joining the staff at St. Edward's, he was an assistant coach at Loyola University in New Orleans.
He was a 6-foot-6 forward during his playing days at Bowie, Louisiana-Monroe and St. Edward’s, and he got his start in coaching as the graduate assistant at St. Edward’s in 2016-17.
“He’s part of our Bowie family,” Ables said. “We’re excited to welcome Trey back, and I know he’s excited to be coming home. He said this was the only high school job that he would have taken.”
Bowie went 16-17 and missed the playoffs this past season, a rare postseason absence during Collier's three-decade tenure.
Collins also takes over a program that regularly won under Benson, who had more than 400 career wins and led the Bulldogs to 10 consecutive playoff appearances from 2011 to 2020. That streak included five district titles. The Bulldogs went 15-17 this past season and missed the playoffs.
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Collins played her high school basketball under legendary coach Rhonda Farney at Georgetown before playing at Texas Lutheran. She just completed her sixth season as an assistant, including a stop at Connally before her three seasons at East View.
“She’s extremely charismatic and can relate to people,” Ables said. “She’ll do a great job, but more importantly, she’ll be a good role model. Both of these coaches will, and I think that’s what’s most exciting.”
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