Darnell Dickson, Daily Herald

Israel Ingle admits next season is set up perfectly for the Timpview boys basketball program.

So naturally, he’s leaving the Thunderbirds for a new job at Lone Peak.

Never afraid of a challenge, Ingle is taking over one of the most storied boys basketball programs in Utah.

“I just really love the building process,” Ingle said. “Lone Peak is the only job in the state I would leave Timpview for.”

Timpview returns everybody on the roster next season, including the state’s No. 1 recruit in Dean Reuckert, after reaching the Class 5A semifinals. Construction (a nightmare for organizing practices and camps) will finally be finished on the Timpview campus after three long years and the Thunderbirds also have an invitation to the prestigious Section 7 tournament in Arizona this spring.

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“I really had no intention of leaving Timpview,” Ingle said. “This was really a tough one for me to consider. I love the players and the program at Timpview.”

Ingle said as soon as the Lone Peak job opened he started getting phone calls from parents and friends in the area asking if he would be interested in the job.

He admitted he was intrigued.

“I mean, it’s Lone Peak,” Ingle said. “When I first moved back to Utah to coach high school basketball I was taking to Sharman White, who is legendary high school coach in Georgia and coaches the US U17 team now. He told me if I was going to Utah and I could set up a game for him to play Lone Peak, he would give me advice on coaching high school basketball.

“Everybody nationally knows about Lone Peak, even 2,000 miles away in Atlanta. I recognize the potential to be that way again.”

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Under Quincy Lewis, Lone Peak became a state power and won seven state championships in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s, producing the Haws brothers (Tyler and TJ), the Emery brothers (Jackson and Nick), Frank Jackson and Eric Mika, among others.

Lone Peak won the 6A title in 2018 with David Evans at the helm, led by state MVP Steven Ashworth (Creighton). Under Rob Ross the past seven seasons the Knights have posted a 93-72 record, reaching the 6A semifinals twice (2020, 2023). Last season, Lone Peak was 15-9, 7-3 in Region 3 and lost to Layton the quarterfinals.

“The administration at Lone Peak is great,” Ingle said. “They have a great location in the Valley with a lot of talented athletes coming up. They have great facilities and amazing community support. Those are the things I look for in a good program.”

Ingle, the son of former BYU coach Tony Ingle, played high school basketball at Timpanogos and Mountain View in the early 2000’s. He was a junior college coach at Gordon College in Georgia before returning to Utah to take over at Timpanogos in 2014. He was 114-62 in seven seasons there with one state semifinal appearance then took the Timpview job in 2021. He posted a 71-34 record in four seasons including a 20-6 mark and a semifinal berth in 2025 before losing to eventual 5A champion Olympus.

In addition to Israel Ingle at Lone Peak, two of Tony Ingle’s other sons also coach in the Valley: Golden Ingle leads the Timpanogos boys program and Tony Ingle Jr. the Timpanogos girls program.

Israel Ingle said he’s gone to watch Lone Peak open gym a couple of times since taking his new job.

“I think I know about three of the players’ names so far,” Ingle said. “We need to get our coaching staff together. I need to have people I trust. Then we have to get the players to buy in to the new system and get them used to the new terminology and new habits.”

Ingle said during his phone interview on Sunday he had just received an invitation for Lone Peak to play in the Section 7 Tournament in Arizona.

The top returning player for the Knights is 6-foot-6 rising junior Crew Fotheringham, who averaged 13.2 points per game as a sophomore.

“Lone Peak is in the best region and in the best classification in the state,” Ingle said. “They’ve been good lately, but the challenge is making one of the better schools into the absolute best program in the state. Getting it back that level, the powerhouse level, is what we’re going to try to do.”