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Jan 30
3 min

Doug Barfield

A spiritual calling can be one of life’s most powerful forces. When Doug Barfield entered Clarke County High School in Grove Hill in the...

Jan 30
3 min

Buddy Anderson

Longevity is not a term used much in coaching these days. In football, it always seems that coaches are looking to move up the ladder or...

Jan 30
3 min

Bill Burgess

In the dictionary under “head football coach”, there should be a picture of him. Cap on, school shirt, polyester pants, black coaching...

Jan 30
3 min

Craig Hunnicutt

Football coaches are notorious for going the extra mile to plan for their teams. They plan workouts, practices and certainly game plans...

Mar 17, 2020
2 min

Mike Battles

Mike Battles, Sr. truly spent a lifetime coaching high school football. His career spanned 3 states, 47 years, state championships and...

Mar 17, 2020
3 min

Fred Yancey

There are not many football coaches who have the enthusiasm and courage to coach high school football for 49 years. There are even fewer...

Mar 17, 2020
2 min

Dan Washburn

Coach Dan Washburn will always be remembered throughout Alabama as the director of the AHSAA for 17 years. But Coach Washburn’s career...

Apr 29, 2019
2 min

Steve Savarese

For Steve Savarese, it was not just about the winning. He has done plenty of that. It has always been about the integrity of high school...

Apr 26, 2019
2 min

Jay Brown

Coach Jay Brown started his coaching career as a student assistant in 1985 under his high school coach, the legendary Bill Burgess, at...

Apr 24, 2019
3 min

Randy Ragsdale

If Randy Ragsdale had not been a high school football coach, you would have begged him to coach to your son’s little league team, or...

Apr 22, 2019
2 min

Bob Newton

It was 1976. A young assistant coach from Sprayberry High School in Georgia took a job at Homewood High School, which was in their fifth...

Dec 3, 2018
1 min

John Mothershed

John Mothershed is a 1981 graduate of Sheffield High School where he was a wrestler and a football player and a 1985 graduate of the...

Jan 28, 2017
4 min

Jamie Riggs

In the Alabama high school coaching community, the moment you hear the name Jamie Riggs several thoughts flood your mind: You think of T....

Jan 28, 2017
3 min

Robert Higginbotham

Robert Higginbotham’s father, Coach Morris Higginbotham, became the head football coach at Hueytown High School in the spring of 1963,...

Jan 28, 2017
2 min

Jerry Elmore

To say that coaching is in Jerry Elmore’s blood would be an understatement. The long-time football coach learned from the best, his...

Mar 11, 2016
2 min

Nolan Atkins

Nolan Atkins could just plain coach. His influence and coaching skill was so great that he made Sweetwater High School the model for...

Mar 11, 2016
3 min

Ben Harris

He was an assistant coach at Baldwin County High School when he took the head coaching job at Mattie T. Blount High School in Prichard in...

Mar 11, 2016
3 min

Tom Calvin

Football is about relationships and no coach in the history of high school football in Alabama mastered that as well as Tom Calvin. The...

Nov 30, 2015
3 min

R.L. Watson

Coach Terry Curtis presents the Lifetime Award to Coach R.L. Watson (right). All great football coaches seem to have one skill that sets...

Nov 30, 2015
3 min

Ivan Jones

Coach Ivan Jones (left) with former Foley coaches Lester Smith and Keith Smith Foley High School has always had good football—successful...

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