2025 Class 5A Coaching Changes
2025 Head Football Coaching Changes | |
Region 1 LeFlore - Renardo Jackson completed his third season leading the Leflore Rattlers football program before stepping down. The program saw improvement in his tenure - finishing 2-8 this past fall, their best finish since 2018. His overall record with the Rattlers was 3-27. 2025 Season - Vacant Region 2 Charles Henderson - Quinn Hambrite departs Charles Henderson after four seasons with a few ups and downs for the Trojans. His second team finished 12-2 losing to Ramsay in the Super Seven 41-20. His final season ended with an 0-9 record after the Trojans were forced to forfeit five games by the AHSAA. His record with the Trojans stands at 23-31. 2025 Season - Phillip Jones was promoted to the head coaching job at Charles Henderson on December 15th. Jones has been an assistant football coach at the school for 21 years. He served on the staffs of four different head coaches and helped lead two different teams that finished state runner-up. Jones has also served as track and field coach at CHHS. Jones is a Brewton native that earned All-State honors as a running back at W.S. Neal before graduating in 1996. He went on to graduate from Troy University, where he played football. Region 3 Selma - Leon Day leaves Selma after just two seasons and a 6-13 record. His Saints struggled in both seasons on offense and did not manage to capture a playoff spot either year. 2025 Season - Vacant Region 5 Hayden - Keith Register leaves Hayden after a dozen seasons at the helm. He retires from the sidelines following a twenty-one year career at Fultondale and Hayden with an overall record of 92-131. His best two seasons were the last two at Fultondale where his teams finished with identical 10-3 records in 2011 and 2012. 2025 Season - Nikita Stover arrives at Hayden with hopes of building something special at the school and on the football field. The former Alabama receiver arrives after three season at Decatur Heritage where his teams finished 20-11 making the playoffs his last two years there. He will join a program that was 45-80 record over the course of the last twelve seasons. The Wildcats have also not won more than eight games in any season since 1992. Region 6 Springville - Jon Clements leaves Springville with a record of 13-28 in just four seasons. His best team in 2023 showed promise even with a very difficult schedule and finished with a 5-6 record and a spot in the playoffs where they lost to Guntersville in the first round. Clements could not parlay that success into the 2024 football season as the Tigers fell to 3-7. 2025 Season - Vacant Lincoln - Matt Zedaker will not return to Lincoln in 2025. After eight years his teams finished 33-51 and reached the playoffs a total of three times. Since the move back up to 5A in 2020, the Golden Bears never seemed to find their footing and finished last year with an 0-10 record. 2025 Season - Vacant Center Point - George Bates resigned from his position as the head football coach at Center Point in mid December. His seven teams finished with a record of 52-30 including 6-7 in the playoffs. Three of those squads won nine games and all qualified for the playoffs. 2025 Season - Vacant |
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Great Moments in Alabama High School Football History
Hazlewood won five consecutive state championships from 1988-1992. During this span the Golden Bears won 29 playoff games in a row.
Hazlewood won five consecutive state championships from 1988-1992. During this span the Golden Bears won 29 playoff games in a row.