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By ANDREW SIMONSON | Sports Editor

ALABASTER – With less than two months until the start of the 2024-25 season, the Thompson Warriors will have a new coach at the helm of the girls basketball program.

Thompson High School announced that Art Bogan resigned as Head Women’s Basketball Coach on Tuesday, Sept. 24.

A reason for his resignation was not given in the school’s official statement.

“We express our gratitude to coach Bogan for his dedication to our student-athletes and his quest to move the program forward,” the school said in a statement posted to the Thompson girls basketball program’s X account.

THS also announced that assistant coach Madison Pierce will serve as the interim head coach for the girls basketball team during the 2024-25 season.

Pierce has served as an assistant coach for Thompson since 2019. She has coaching experience in both AAU and the Euroleague, the latter of which saw her coach both boys and girls youth teams to promotion in the league.

As a player, Pierce was a captain for Shelton State Community College and Eastern Kentucky University before playing professionally in Iceland and in the Euroleague for Panathinaikos B.C. in Athens, Greece.

In his lone season as the Warriors head coach, Bogan went 16-13 and lost in the area semifinals to Hoover.

Before coming to Alabaster, Bogan spent the 2022-23 season as the assistant women’s basketball coach at Texas Southern University. He was also an assistant coach at Southern Nazarene University and Chipola College.

At the high school level, he was the head boys and girls basketball coach at Casady High School and assistant coach at Edmond North High School, both of which were in Oklahoma. He won one conference championship with Casady and a Class 6A state championship at Edmond North.

In addition to the coaching change, Thompson will embark on the new season without one of its key players from last season in Jayla Forbes, who made the All-County Second Team as a freshman last season and transferred to Monteverde Academy in Florida over the offseason.