Southeast Guilford hires Daijah Faucette as girls basketball coach

Southeast Guilford turned to a homegrown basketball name to lead its next chapter, naming former River Mill standout Daijah Faucette as its girls coach as the Falcons try to build on recent success and reclaim the program’s championship standard. The hire gives Greensboro-area families a familiar face with local roots, and it comes after Southeast finished 14-11 last season and fell to Marvin Ridge, 48-41, in the first round of the 4A playoffs.

Faucette was introduced June 11 in Southeast Guilford’s media center by principal Christopher Scott, who also presented new boys coach Brent Hinson. The school’s decision to elevate Faucette fits a program that has been working to steady itself after Hannah Revis’s two-year run, which began with her hiring on May 5, 2022.

Revis left Southeast with a record of growth to point toward. In 2023-24, the Falcons won 17 games, and last winter they stayed in the mix at 14-11 before the playoff loss to Marvin Ridge. Before arriving in Greensboro, Revis had been a varsity assistant and head JV coach at McMichael High School, where her teams reached the 2021 regional championship game and made three straight state playoff appearances for the first time in school history. McMichael had been 0-21 before she got there.

That history matters for Southeast because the Falcons have already shown they can reach a higher level. The school won back-to-back 3A state championships in 2019 and 2020, with the 2020 title shared with E.E. Smith because of the pandemic. Faucette inherits a program with that kind of memory still attached to it, but also with a recent season that showed there is room to push back toward that standard.

Her River Mill pedigree is part of the appeal. River Mill Academy, in Graham, is a public charter school serving about 800 students from kindergarten through 12th grade, and Faucette’s rise from that setting gives Southeast a coach with direct experience in a nearby Guilford-area basketball pipeline. For a program trying to deepen participation, sharpen competitiveness and keep community attention on girls basketball, the hire signals an effort to make the Falcons feel locally rooted again before next season even begins.