Troy Allen resigns after four seasons as Green Hill basketball coach, set to retire from teaching
After 30 years in coaching and education, Green Hill boys basketball coach Troy Allen is ready for something different.
Allen resigned as basketball coach Wednesday and will retire at the end of the school year. While coaching has been Allen's life for three decades, taking two different programs to the state tournament, he's ready for a change.
"Thirty years is a lot of years," Allen said after guiding Green Hill for the past four seasons. "I've done it and I want to see what else is out there and do something else," Allen told The Tennessean. "Things can always change, but this is my plan right now."
Allen led Green Hill to a 19-10 season, and a District 12-4A championship appearance. The Hawks lost to Hillsboro in the Region 6-4A semifinals last week. He's been the program's only coach after the school opened in the fall of 2020.
In his four seasons at Green Hill, Allen had an 81-35 record including three district championship appearances and a district title last year. The Hawks advanced to the 4A sectional, losing to Independence in 2023.
"I've got two daughters and my wife and it's sort of all we've known," Allen said about coaching. "If you're coaching big-time high school sports, the hardest thing is to leave it. It's a 12-month a year thing. But I'm ready to see what else is out there."
The 1988 David Lipscomb graduate, who was a baseball and basketball star, began his coaching career in 1995 as an assistant at Hillsboro. He spent 10 seasons with the Burros, the final six as the head coach. He won three district titles as head coach, a region title and took the 2004-05 team to the Class AAA state semifinals, losing to Jackson North Side. He won 149 games at Hillsboro.
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But it was at Mt. Juliet where Allen had his most success. He spent 16 years at Mt. Juliet, won 322 games, coached in five sectionals and made the TSSAA basketball state tournament twice.
"I was a better baseball player (out of high school) but I just loved basketball," Allen said. "It was sort of in my blood because of how I grew up and coaching is sort of what I knew I was going to do."
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