For many of the great basketball moments in Hall County history, Seth Vining played a major part. He coached both the East Hall boys and girls to a pair of state titles, along with leading the ascension of the Lakeview Academy boys team and making it a regular playoff qualifier in Class A the final nine seasons of his career that ended with a recent first-round playoff loss. With the decision to retire made before the season even started, he wraps up his 39-year career with 745 wins — all in Hall County — and was the man behind the boys basketball dynasty at East Hall he guided starting in the early 1990s and continued when he handed it off to his former assistant Joe Dix.