Jay basketball coach retires

The Patriots will have some new leadership for the rest of the 2024-25 season.

Jerry Bomholt announced his retirement effective immediately from his role as the Jay County High School boys basketball coach on Tuesday afternoon.

Brogan Gary, previously the junior varsity coach, will step in as the interim to finish out the season. In turn, assistant Doug Arbuckle will fill in as the JV coach.

Bomholt’s retirement follows a pair of health scares that occurred a short period before coaching a game that kept him off the sidelines. The first of such events happened on Jan. 11 against Adams Central and the most recent was Saturday’s matchup at Blackford.

Bomholt finished his career with a 602-393 record (60.5%) over 44 seasons. He had two stints at JCHS, spanning a total of nine years. He went 112-86 (56.6%) while guiding the Patriots.

Jay County has seven regular season games left. Gary will make his head-coaching debut Thursday at Southern Wells.

A full version of this story will be available to read Wednesday afternoon at thecr.com or in Thursday’s edition of The Commercial Review.