A lot of is expected of Greenville High School’s Charlisa Barney and Coriyonna Brown this basketball season. The Honeybees opened are scheduled to open their season on Tuesday night with a home game against rival Greenwood.
Barney is a lightning quick 5-foot-1 senior point guard who has the ability to take over any game. Brown, a 6-foot-4 junior center, controls the paint with both her scoring and rebounding. The two were the leading Honeybee scorers last season.
Yet, despite all these accolades from last year from Barney and Brown, head coach Dakedreon Lampkin said these two can be even better this season.
“For us to be successful, they are going to have to make everyone around them better,” Coach Lampkin said. “They can score points, which is a given, but other people have to score too. Because two people can’t win a game. It is going to take all five, all six and sometimes all seven of us to win.”
“Coriyonna has the size. She is 6-foot-4 post player. She brings experience because even though she is a junior this is her fourth year in the system too. So those two, along with (senior forward) Ameria Jones, have a lot of experience. Sometimes they know what I am thinking before I say it.”
Along with some fresh new faces, like junior transfer Keniyah Rhodes, Coach Lampkin brings a new title to the Honeybees after earning his doctorate in leadership last summer from National University. Coach Lampkin describes earning his new degree as “a process I had to stick with. This is something I like to carry over to my players because even though it might not be going good initially your way, you still have to stick with it.
“It was something I decided to do when we were going through Covid. We were one of the teams that was not playing so we were sitting around and I was bored and I said, ‘I can do this.’”
So will his players call him Coach Lampkin or Doctor Lampkin?
“People may starting to call me Doctor-Coach,” he said with a laugh.
