Athletic Director David Sykes announced that he has finalized the football staff assignments for the 2016-2017 school year. After seven years as junior high head football coach, Parker Harris will join the varsity staff as an offensive and defensive assistant. Mack Norwood will take over the leadership of the junior high football program. “We are so very fortunate to have these two men on our football staff at JA, and we look forward to their continued leadership and the positive impact that they have on our young men on a daily basis,” Sykes said.
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