After 15 years as the head of the boys’ basketball team, Mike Lovelace stepped down, causing a huge shift in the program. Coach Jon Lamar Hamilton stepped into the position. “Lovelace is a big strategic coach, and I think Hamilton knows his personnel,” says varsity captain Pete Roebuck (‘24). “They’re both great coaches.”

Last year multiple seniors graduated, leaving the team with many slots to fill. “This season is going to be the beginning of our journey,” says Hamilton. “We were really lacking Varsity experience, minute-wise, so I know there was going to be a lot of guys figuring out their roles and trying to understand how to play at that level.”

The Skyline Boys Varsity Basketball season has ended with a record of 13-11. “I think we all thought it was going to be a little tough to get together because we are different ages,” says Roebuck. “It’s been a while since we played on the same team, but it went pretty smoothly.”

Just like many other sports at Skyline, the boys’ biggest rival is and has proved to be Huron. “Huron [is our biggest rival]. They are the best team, and even in the conference we like to beat the best teams,” says Roebuck. 

Over the years, Skyline boys basketball has gone from nothing to a very successful program. “We are very good at basketball and it’s a very good program,” says varsity player, Braylon Brown (‘25). 

The team is currently working on building a successful, unselfish, and confident community that can make it to the State Championship game. 

“Something I say to the team is that when you have a puzzle, the picture isn’t clear,” says Hamilton. “And piece by piece you put the puzzle together so eventually the picture comes together. So it’s a process, and some of the pieces don’t fit right away, but you keep going and you figure out how everything fits.”