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Provo • BYU basketball coach Dave Rose has established quite a pipeline to nearby Lone Peak High School, getting star players such as Tyler Haws, Jackson Emery and Eric Mika out of the northern Utah County prep basketball powerhouse.
Now Rose is getting the Knights' coach.
The 11th-year Cougar coach announced Thursday the hiring of Lone Peak coach Quincy Lewis as a BYU assistant coach. Rose also announced that assistant coach Tim LaComb will be promoted to associate head coach, the position vacated by Mark Pope when he left to become Utah Valley University's head coach.
Lewis was Lone Peak's coach for 12 years, leading the Knights to a 250-45 record, seven state championships, 10 region championships and a mythical national title in 2013.
"I'm very excited about the addition of Quincy Lewis to our staff," Rose said. "Quincy brings great knowledge of the game and a winning attitude. He has been successful everywhere he's been as a player and a coach, and I look forward to adding Quincy to our team."
Lewis coached eight years at the collegiate level before becoming Lone Peak's coach. He began his coaching career at BYU-Hawaii as an assistant from 1995 to 97. He helped at Utah Valley State College — now UVU — from 1997-2002 and at Southern Utah University in 2002-03.
After graduating from Provo's Timpview High, Lewis played two years at Dixie College, the first when Rose was an assistant and the second when Rose was the head coach at the St. George school, then at a junior college. He played his final two years at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y., earning all-conference honors and graduating in 1993. He earned a master's degree from the University of Utah in 1995.
"Coach Rose has built an outstanding program," Lewis said in a school news release. "I am really excited to get started and be a part of his staff."
Lewis and his wife, Debbie, have four children, two sons and two daughters.
LaComb has been a member of BYU's coaching staff for eight seasons, the past five as an assistant coach after joining the staff as director of basketball operations in 2007.
LaComb has served as the team's recruiting coordinator the past four years and was instrumental in landing Mika, T.J. Haws, Nick Emery and Payton Dastrup, among others.
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BYU's basketball coaching staff
Head coach • Dave Rose
Associate head coach • Tim LaComb
Assistant coach • Terry Nashif
Assistant coach • Quincy Lewis
Director of basketball operations • Andrew May