Key Highlights
- Ranum hopes to improve upon the current record, and he has the experience to do so. Ranum was the head boys basketball coach at Carrington High School for seven seasons where he was named District Coach of the Year twice.
- In 2018, his team won the Region 3 championship.
- During his time at Carrington, the Cardinals advanced to the Region 3 Championship in 2017, 2018 and 2019. As his first season as a head coach at the Class AA level is ramping up, Ranum is excited to explore the Jays' potential. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"I think as a whole the kids were kind of disappointed with how the football season went ...
- but now kids have kind of switched gears," Ranum said.
- "A lot of kids have put in a lot of effort to improve and get better every day and now there is some excitement in the air and we're ready to get going."Most of this group is brand new to playing varsity basketball so they might be a little anxious but also really excited to go out and prove out to people what they can do," he said. The Blue Jays lost eight seniors to graduation, leaving only three kids — Madden Skunberg, Edison Walters and Liam Frey — who saw significant time last year. The lack of varsity experience hasn't been a cause for concern for Ranum. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"We do have some seniors who I think are going to help out," Ranum said.