Who is Airports new varsity girls basketball coach?

On a bright summer day, all the girls on the basketball team were called to Airport High School to meet their new head varsity basketball coach. It was important to all the girls on the team to be able to have a coach, so practice could begin. All the girls gathered in the commons area and were introduced to Chantel Amick, who is now their head varsity coach. The new varsity coach was their former junior varsity coach. All the girls are stoked to be able to have Coach Amick as the leader of their team this coming season. After having Amick as their JV coach, the girls on the team have all become very comfortable with her and are ecstatic to be having her as their coach again.

Chentel Amick played basketball in highschool when she lived in Connecticut growing up until her sophomore year of high school. She wanted to continue her love for the sport by coaching the Fulmer Middle School girls team, then the Airport High School girls JV team, and now the Airport High School girls varsity basketball team. Amick says, “I love basketball, and being able to work with kids in a setting that’s different than just teaching.” The team is so appreciative of her love for us, and it is sure that the years of girls to follow us will love her as well.

Amick is a five foot tall, black woman, with a twin sister who is not originally from South Carolina. “I grew up in Massachusetts and Connecticut,” Amick says. She and her immediate family moved to South Carolina her sophomore year of highschool to be closer to their relatives. Then, once she moved to South Carolina, she went on to become a teacher, after attending the UofSC for college. She is now a middle school math teacher and has also begun to teach history to middle schoolers as well. Her teaching career is now at Fulmer Middle School where she inspires many students to love math and history. Amick is happily married to a firefighter, Dalton Amick, and lives on acres of land with her pet dog.

Chantel Amick has a pretty consistent daily routine also. “I get up at 6:30 and then I get ready for work. Depending on the day will determine if I see my husband. Sometimes he is at work getting ready to come home, sometimes he has already left for work and sometimes he is off from work and sleeping. I get to work about 7:35 and I teach four classes a day. I teach two eighth grade math classes, one prealgebra class and one seventh grade math class. I teach until 3:00 and then about 4:00 I go over to Airport for basketball practice. Once practice is over I head home and feed my dogs and relax in the house with my husband, if he’s home. Sometimes at night I may do lesson plans or watch some sports or television before bed. I try to be in the bed by 11:30 pm to be up for school the next day,” Amick says. Then it all starts over the next morning for her. The basketball team does not see all the things Coach Amick does throughout the day, but to be that busy and still love to come and coach the team is amazing. She sure is appreciated.