DUNLAP – A familiar name in coaching circles will take over the Concord High School boys basketball program.

Derrick DeShone was approved Monday night by the Concord School Board to guide the fortunes of the Minutemen starting next season.

DeShone, a former standout player at Jimtown High School, replaces Steve Austin. Austin resigned following the 2017-18 season after spending the last 10 years at Concord. Austin was 125-102 at Concord.

DeShone has spent the last three seasons as the boys basketball coach at New Prairie High School. He was 30-39 in charge of the Cougars, including a 10-12 overall mark this past season, which included a 4-8 record in the Northern Indiana Conference.

DeShone’s father Randy was the highly-successful coach of the Jimtown boys basketball program for a lengthy tenure. Derrick DeShone, a 2005 Jimtown graduate, helped the Jimmies win the only boys  basketball state title in Elkhart County history as a junior in 2004. He was also a four-year football lettermen for coach Bill Sharpe’s very successful program at Jimtown.

The younger DeShone played one season at Ball State University and then for three years at IU South Bend. He began his coaching career as an assistant boys basketball coach at Northridge from 2009-11, then was the head boys basketball coach at Jimtown for one year. DeShone then was an assistant coach at LaVille High School from 2012-15 before taking over at New Prairie, where he was also the Athletic Director for the middle school.

Concord finished with a 7-15 overall mark and a 2-5 record in the Northern Lakes Conference this past season.

DeShone and his wife Allison have two sons, three-year old Hayden and three-month old Maddox.

DeShone is slated to teach Wellness at CHS starting in the fall.