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Region 1 Flomaton - Doug Vickery Jr. retires after 26 seasons as a head football coach in the state. His overall record of 156-120 is outstanding. He spent the last twenty years as the head coach at Flomaton where his teams won 130 games including the 2018 Class 3A state championship with a 23-12 victory over Piedmont. He led the Hurricanes to fourteen playoff wins over the course of his career in south Alabama. 2025 Season - Vacant Monroe County - Shannon Felder leaves Monroe County after just three seasons with a 4-26 record. The Tigers will now be searching for their eleventh head coach since the 2000 football season. 2025 Season - Vacant Region 2 Prattville Christian - Norman Dean spent four years trying to build a successful football program at Prattville Christian before departing in November of 2024. His teams finished a combined 16-24 and did not reach the playoffs in any season. Dean's overall record after seventeen years as a head coach stands at 94-87 including a thirteen year run at Elmore County. 2025 Season - Shane Moye coached at Lowndes for eleven seasons including the last seven as the head football and baseball coach. His teams won three AISA state championships and played for a fourth just last year. He also won a state championship in baseball at Lowndes Academy. Coach Moye graduated from Auburn University in Montgomery. Region 4 Childersburg - Johnny Johnson leaves Childersburg after five seasons with a 13-37 record and having never managed to reach the playoffs during that time. 2025 Season - Vacant Region 5 Oakman - Ryan Hall leaves Oakman following a six year run leading the football program for the Wildcats. His teams went a combined 36-30 and qualified for the playoffs each year. His best team was in 2021 when the Wildcats finished with a 9-3 record before losing in the second round of the playoffs to Saks 35-22. 2025 Season - Ben Panter has served as the Wildcats' defensive coordinator under Ryan Hall for the last six seasons. Panter played football and baseball at Walker High School before graduating in 1996 with a football scholarship to Livingston University (now University of West Alabama). After serving as assistant coach at Gardendale for a few years, Panter returned to Jasper and coached in 2004. When Ryan Hall became Oakman's head coach in 2019, Ben was hired as his defensive coordinator. Gordo - Gus Smith leaves Gordo after just three seasons with a 31-6 record. His Green Wave teams finished a combined 31-6 with at least ten wins each season. They also qualified for the playoffs each year but failed to get past the third round in any season. Coach Smith is not retiring and we can expect to see him again next season on the sidelines if not on the high school level then possibly on a college sideline. 2025 Season - Chris Chambless is a seven time state champion at West Point High in Mississippi. Over the course of his nineteen year career in the state his teams finished 208-54 reaching the playoffs every single season. Each of his teams also finished with a winning record and fourteen won at least ten games including the last nine. Region 6 Glencoe - Scott Martin leaves Glencoe after just three seasons with a record of 7-23. Martin was unable to rebuild the football program at Glencoe as he had done at Ohatchee previously in his brief tenure with the program. 2025 Season - Bayley Blanchard served as the defensive coordinator at Glencoe last year before being promoted to the head coaching job after the departure of Scott Martin in November. Blanchard played for Coach Steve Smith at Piedmont and later at West Alabama earning all conference honors on the field. Blanchard came to Glencoe in 2022 as an assistant before taking over the junior high head coach job in 2023. | |
David Parker
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Great Moments in Alabama High School Football History
Spence McCracken won a record 21 Area/Region Championships at Montgomery Academy, Lee Montgomery and Opelika during his coaching career.
Spence McCracken won a record 21 Area/Region Championships at Montgomery Academy, Lee Montgomery and Opelika during his coaching career.
