Robinson leaves Mortimer Jordan to coach girls at Guntersville:
GDW Analysis:
GUNTERSVILLE: Gameday Weekly has learned a coaching change is reported at Guntersville High School.
Kelly Robinson, who has spent the past 8 years in Jefferson County at Mortimer Jordan High School, is now the girls basketball coach at the 5A program in Marshall County.
Recently, Guntersville had announced that Capriee Tucker would come to the school after spending the last three years at Athens.
One day after she accepted the position, Tucker reportedly changed her mind and resigned.
Robinson took Mortimer Jordan and raised the level of performing.
The Blue Devils have enjoyed 182 victories in 244 games with the 5A school, a winning percentage of .745.
Robinson led the Blue Devils to 5 area championships, 5 Sweet 16 playoff appearances, 2 trips to the Elite and 7 consecutive years of at least 20 victories in each season.
Robinson was able to draw interest in having a tip off classic for several seasons, around Veterans Day weekend in November.
Gameday Weekly remembers several years ago in attending the classic as West Point was participating.
But what was noted on this Saturday by GDW, Mortimer Jordan played Muscle Shoals that featured future Tennessee player Sara Puckett.
Tennessee coach Kellie Harper was attending the game to look at Plunkett in a hard-fought battle with Robinson's Blue Devils.
Robinson will line up against state runner up Scottsboro that will be facing Guntersville in 5A, Area 14 the next two years.
Arab is also in this area. The Arabian Knights were 2nd in the 5A championship to Pleasant Grove in 2023.
Locally, Robinson will be facing Fairview's Lady Aggies. Chris Nichols will enter his 2nd season coaching the Lady Aggies.
With Robinson now at Guntersville, the Marshall County area has two coaches with great credentials to be on the hardwood for the upcoming season.
Natasha Smallwood recently left Susan Moore and is now at Albertville High School.
Robinson and Smallwood know each other rather well in a couple of seasons ago, with their former teams facing one another in a game at Wallace State's Tom Drake Coliseum.
Robinson lives in the Cullman area. His son Kolby played baseball for the Cullman Bearcats, then Wallace State and finished his career at the University of Alabama.
This is the current number of new girls basketball coaches in the GDW coverage area.
Vinemont with Emily Willoughby
Albertville with Natasha Smallwood
Shane Childress with Priceville.
Kelly Robinson with Guntersville.
Current vacancies:
Susan Moore, Clements, Sparkman.
Willoughby is the only girls coaching change in the Cullman County area.
Photo of new Guntersville girls basketball coach Kelly Robinson with Guntersville City Schools Superintendent Jason Barnett.
Photo courtesy of the Advertiser-Gleam.
