Betty Trull, the co-owner and operator of a basketball training center, has been hired as Hill-Murray’s girls basketball coach, athletics director John Pohl confirmed this week.
She succeeds longtime Pioneers coach Erin Herman, let go in the spring after a 36-year career that included nine Hill-Murray state tournament teams, including runner-up finishes in 2010 and 2011.
Trull, 28, played basketball at North Central University in Minneapolis and runs Basketball Enterprise LLC, a basketball training center that aims to “empower … athletes through faith-driven basketball training sets the foundation for everything they do.”
Herman, meanwhile, has accepted a position as assistant varsity coach at Edina.
Trull and her husband, Griffin, also coach a pair of AAU teams, Enterprise Elite, and Trull was a varsity assistant at Roseville for four years. She attended Christian Life Academy in Farmington.
She had been training several Hill-Murray players before being hired to run the Pioneers’ program.
“My goal is to win sections and make it to the state tournament, that’s my first goal with this team,” Trull said. “We have to get through some good teams to do that, but I definitely think it’s possible with this team.”
“It’s going to be a fun year,” Trull said. “It’s a really great team, but I’m even more excited about our team culture. I’m excited about it.”
The Pioneers begin practice next month and open the season Nov. 22 against Eden Prairie at the Girls Tip Off Challenge at Southwest Christian High School in Chaska.
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