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NOVEMBER 2020
DJ Wyrick Fairfield Basketball
After playing four years for Tyrice Walker at Miami Hamilton, DJ Wyrick knew he wanted to go down the path of coaching-- and what a path it’s been thus far. “(Walker) is really one of the reasons I wanted to get into coaching,” said Wyrick. “He was a great coach. He was really good at developing relationships with players. That lit a fire in me, to want to become a coach… That relationship (with Walker) made me think about a career in coaching.” Now, over a decade later, Wyrick is in his second season at the helm at one of Ohio’s biggest high
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schools: Fairfield. After playing at Miami Hamilton, Wyrick began a graduate assistantship at Wright State University under Brad Brownell (who currently is the head coach of Clemson). Wyrick spent two years as a GA at Wright State, then transitioned into an assistant coach for the Raiders which he held for five years. In 2015, Wyrick was 29 years old, married and wanted to start a family. So he made the move from college assistant to high school. “In college, you can’t be a really good dad and a really
