Liz Flooks New White Plains Girls Basketball Coach
On Monday, August 13, at the Education House, the White Plains Board of Education approved the appointment of Tigers Girls basketball legend Liz Flooks as the new head coach of White Plains High School Girls Varsity Basketball.
Flooks will bring her exceptional work ethic, steadfast determination, winning attitude and tenacity to the Harry Jefferson Gymnasium next season to lead the Lady Tigers on the court.
Flooks was a four-year varsity player for the Tigers from 2003 to 07. The 24 year-old White Plains native will assume the head coaching position from her predecessor Sue Adams, who coached for 11 years.
Flooks played her four years of Tigers basketball under the tutelage of Adams and has three consecutive (2004 -’07) Section 1-AA Championships to prove it.
Adams departed after last season with a career record of 160-86, including four Section 1-AA Championships, four League Championships and two New York State AA Eastern Regional Championships, during her reign at WPHS. Adams is etched in the history of White Plains High School Athletics as the most successful head coach the girls basketball program has ever had.
Flooks scored over 1000 points for the Tigers before graduating in 2007 and attending Niagara University. Flooks also scored over 1000 points for the Purple Eagles as well and received All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) honors all four years she played for Niagara.
Flooks came home to White Plains High School after graduating from Niagara University in 2011. She joined Adams’s staff last season as an assistant coach, while coaching alongside her mother Debbie Flooks who assisted Adams for 11 seasons.
The Liz Flooks era will begin when the 2012-’13 WPHS Girls Basketball season commences, as the Tigers pursuit of winning endures.
