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Sweet Home’s new high school girls basketball coach will focus on fundamentals and building a youth program to help bolster the high school level.

Michelle Knight, who has been involved in the program at different levels for years, is the new coach, succeeding Dave McNeil.

Knight, 47, lived in Sweet Home from the third grade through junior high school, when she moved to Lebanon. She graduated from Lebanon High School in 1989. She attended Linn-Benton Community College.

“We moved back to Sweet Home when Josie (her daughter) was a baby,” she said. That was about 20 years ago.

She w...