DeJuan Clark is returning to J.Z. George High School as the new girls basketball and volleyball coach for the 2024-2025 school year.
Clark served as boys basketball coach for the 2021-2022 season and finished with a 7-17 record. He left the North Carrollton school after his one-year stint and took on a variety of coaching positions at Lake Cormorant Middle School in Desoto County for the last two years.
He was the head boys basketball coach, the assistant girls basketball coach and the assistant athletic director at the middle school.
Clark is a graduate of Gentry High School in Indianola, where he played on the boys basketball team. He played his first three years of college ball at Blue Mountain College in Holly Springs and finished his last season at MUW in Columbus. Clark also played one year of pro ball in Portugal before the season was shut down by the pandemic.
“Being at Lake Cormorant helped me learn a lot,” said Clark. “One of the reasons I’m returning to J.Z. George is I know we have the athletes to become successful year in and year out. It will take dedication and some ground work from the top to turn things around.”
Clark takes over the girls team from Ahmad Alexander, who served as head coach of the girls and boys teams last season. Alexander remains on staff as the boys coach and as an assistant football coach.
