By Terry Boehmker
NKyTribune sports reporter
Less than two months after his father ended a 20-year football head coaching career, Adam Kozerski has accepted an offer to become head coach of the Brossart Mustangs team.
Brossart school officials made the announcement Tuesday. This is Kozerski’s first head coaching position. He spent the last 12 seasons as an assistant coach under his father, Bruce, at Holy Cross.
Adam Kozerski
In December, Bruce announced that he was stepping down as head coach of the Indians. Adam is a math teacher at Brossart and decided to begin his head coaching career there.
He’ll be taking charge of a Brossart team that compiled a 67-43 record over the last 10 seasons under former head coach Paul Wiggins Jr, who was not rehired for the position after the Mustangs finished 5-6 last season.
Adam Kozerski was a two-way starter at tight end and defensive tackle on the 2011 Holy Cross team that won the Class 2A state championship. After earning a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Louisville, he returned home and joined his father’s coaching staff at Holy Cross.
He was a position coach and assistant offensive coordinator for the Indians, who lost the last four regular season games they played against Brossart. The Mustangs now compete in a Class 1A district that includes Holy Cross, Ludlow and Trimble County.
Brossart’s first-year head coach has several starters returning from last year’s team, including quarterback Keegan Gulley, leading rusher Cameron Mandell and leading tacklers Quinten Tischner and Shane Willike.
CovCath senior to receive award for student-athletes in multiple sports
Brady Hussey
Covington Catholic senior Brady Hussey is this year’s recipient of the 11th annual Walllace “Wah Wah” Jones Award that recognizes a Kentucky high school student-athlete who excels in two or more boys sports.
Hussey is in his third season as a starting guard on the CovCath basketball team and he was the No. 1 singles player on the Colonels’ tennis team that won the boys state championship last spring. He maintains a 3.5 grade point average.
The 6-foot-1 guard is currently averaging 13.9 point and 3.7 rebounds for CovCath’s 21-5 basketball team that was ranked No. 6 in the state in the latest poll of media members. In the spring, Hussey will be going for his fourth consecutive 9th Region singles title.
The “Wah Wah” Jones Award is named after a former University of Kentucky athlete who played football, basketball and baseball for the Wildcats.
Former Campbell County coach selected for 10th Region Hall of Fame
Aric Russell, head coach of the Campbell County boys basketball team for 13 years, has been selected for induction into the 10th Region Hall of Fame for that sport.
Aric Russell
The Camels compiled a 284-134 record, won four region titles and made it to the semifinals of the 2019 state tournament under Russell. His teams finished with a winning record in 12 of 13 seasons and seven of them won 20 or more games.
Russell spent the first 12 years of his head coaching career at Newport, where he was 124-120 as a boys coach and 51-32 as a girls coach. He retired with a 459-286 career record for a 61.4 winning percentage.
The other 11 inductees for the boys basketball hall of fame include former Campbell County basketball player Cole Hegyi, who had a career scoring total of 1,254 points, and former Brossart athletic director Mel Webster, who passed away in 2022.
The group of inductees will be honored during the finals of the 10th Region boys basketball tournament and at the region’s post-season awards banquet.
