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Brentsville’s Baltimore steps down

By Dave Fawcett

Published: April 14, 2008

Brentsville head girls basketball coach Eugene Baltimore has resigned after eight seasons.
Baltimore said he based his decision on two factors: church and his family.
“I wanted to get more involved in my church,” Baltimore said. “I was putting hoops before the Lord too much.”
Baltimore also said a conversation with Taylor, the youngest of his three daughters, made him decide he should leave his post at Brentsville.
With the commitment to the varsity basketball program taking so much of his time, Baltimore had not been able to spend as much time coaching 10-year-old Taylor. He’d coached his other two daughters, including Keyla, who played for him at Brentsville.
“[Taylor] came up to me and asked me ‘When is it going to be my turn?’ ”Baltimore said. “It killed me in the gut.”
In eight seasons at Brentsville, Baltimore posted an 111-77 record. This past season, he led the Tigers to the program’s best season in school history as they finished 14-0 in the Group AA Northwestern District, 21-6 overall and reached their first-ever state tournament. The Tigers lost in the state quarterfinals to Greensville County, 47-38.
Brentsville graduates four seniors, including Kimmy Hopkins, the school’s all-time leading scorer, and Allee Jacobson, who like Hopkins was a four-year varsity player.
Prior to coaching at Brentsville, Baltimore had been the head boys basketball coach at Osbourn Park for two seasons and the head boys basketball coach at Rappahannock for four seasons.