THE OFFICIAL SITE OF
Gainesville High School Athletics

Six days after leading Hebron Christian girls basketball to its fourth state championship in seven seasons with the program, the winningest head coach in Georgia high school history turned her efforts towards guiding Gainesville to similar feats.

Jan Azar, along with her longtime assistant Demetrius Frazier, took the helm of a once-storied Red Elephant girls basketball program fresh off having wrapped up her 29th year coaching with a 30-1 record and 17th state championship.

In her seven seasons with Hebron, Azar led the Lions to six state championship games while amassing a 202-14 record. She spent her years in coaching prior to Hebron building the Wesleyan girls basketball program not just from the ground up, but into a state and national powerhouse. In 21 seasons with the Wolves, Azar went 571-133 - 36 of those losses coming in her first three years - and won 13 state championships.

Between the two schools, Azar’s teams have won 86% of the 906 games she coached, and made 24 state championship game appearances.

Currently among nine candidates up for MaxPreps National Coach of the Year, Azar has been named the Atlanta Journal and Constitution’s State Coach of the Year 15 times, she won the Bobby Cremins State of Georgia Girls Coach of the Year (an all-classification distinction) in 2002 and 2010, has been named the Atlanta Tipoff Club Metro Atlanta Coach of the Year seven times, and in 2022-2023 was among 23 high school coaches across all sports and from across the country selected by the NFHS Coaches Association as a National Coach of the Year.