Tom Dolan says because his hire of Jason Asbell as girls basketball coach at new Jamestown High in 1997 was his first as the Eagles’ athletic director, it made it “special.”

Jessica Canady called joining Asbell’s program at Jamestown and knowing he’d be her coach “the greatest moment of my life.” Those are sentiments that Poquoson athletic director Page (Turner) Yarbrough and younger sister Sydney Turner, the Islanders’ softball coach, share after playing in college for Asbell at Division II Davis & Elkins in West Virginia.

Asbell, most recently a women’s assistant basketball coach at Colgate, died Oct. 30 at 53 after battling cancer for about a year. Although he spent almost the past two decades as a college women’s basketball assistant or head coach, he is remembered in this area for a

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