Former Heritage AD Pat Kennedy returns as girls basketball coach

A year after stepping down as athletic director at Heritage High School, Pat Kennedy is officially returning to the school as the head girls basketball coach.

Kennedy was the school’s inaugural athletic director and led the Huskies for 13 years at the school.

He began as the school’s head boys basketball coach and moved to the girls team prior to the 2014 season. After a 7-17 record in his first year leading the Lady Huskies, Kennedy’s girls teams have never had a loss record.

He won 147 games and lost only 60 as head coach of the girls team. His tenure included a dominant stretch from 2015-2019 where Heritage won at least 23 games every year.

Longtime soccer coach Scott Sloan, who won the school’s lone team championship with his girls soccer team in 2019, is now AD. The two agreed it was only right for Kennedy to return to the school’s basketball program. Kennedy was a basketball official in his spare time.

Heritage’s girls team was coached by Jen Shepstead for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. The Huskies are looking to bounce back from their 3-21 finish this winter.