MOUNT VERNON – Mount Vernon High School has hired Nate Short as its new girls basketball coach, athletic director Justin Sanford said on Tuesday, April 20.
“Going into this hire we had a broad group of candidates for this position, each with distinct experiences and backgrounds,” Sanford said in a news release. “We put a process and panel in place to quickly move forward and focused on finding the best coach possible. Coach Short was diligent in his preparation and expressed his passion for Mount Vernon basketball and our Mount Vernon community. Coach Short is an excellent hire for our girls basketball program, and we look forward to his development of a K-12 program in our community.”
Short replaces Doug Savage, who coached the Yellow Jackets for the last eight seasons, guiding them to an Ohio Capital Conference-Capital Division championship in 2013-14.
Previously, Short was the head boys basketball coach at Sydney High School between stints as an assistant at Fredericktown and Highland.
He spent four seasons as an assistant with Mount Vernon Nazarene University’s women’s basketball team, coached by his wife Amanda.
A Mount Vernon alum, Short has taught math at the school since 2014 after graduating from Grace College in 2012.
The Jackets finished 5-12 overall and 4-7 in the Ohio Cardinal Conference before falling at Gahanna in the first round of the Division I district tournament.
