State championship coach Patrick Browning is leaving Pike Highway to become head soccer coach at Greenville Substantial Faculty.
The move was declared this morning. Browning also will be athletic director.
“I adore Pike Street,” Browning explained to AL.com. “It’s a good put. It’s been fantastic for me and my spouse and children. We started with nothing at all but a few rubber footballs and constructed it into a point out championship application, but God is calling us to a new prospect.”
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The 35-calendar year-outdated Browning replaces Josh McLendon, who stepped down at Greenville very last week right after seven seasons. McLendon informed AL.com it was the administration’s choice to go in a distinctive path.
Browning spent the last six yrs at Pike Road, setting up the plan from its infancy to the Course 5A point out championship in 2021. In 4 varsity seasons, the Patriots went 42-7 total, including a 36-2 mark in the previous three seasons.
The 2021 staff went 14-, defeating Nice Grove 51-14 in the point out championship game in Birmingham.
“At Pike, we achieved the purpose we set out to carry out,” Browning explained. “We gained a point out title. The last a few senior classes went undefeated in the standard period. We broke a number of scoring data and defensive data. It was genuinely like a film. You could not publish a improved script. Now, we are enthusiastic for a new challenge and opportunity.”
Browning can take about a Greenville workforce that went 8-4 very last fall, getting rid of 14-12 at UMS-Wright in the next round of the Class 5A playoffs. The Tigers will contend in Class 5A, Region 2 in 2022 along with Carroll, Charles Henderson, Eufaula, Headland and Rehobeth.
“I think Greenville is a sleeping giant with a ton of likely,” Browning claimed. “I simply cannot wait around to get down there and get to work. They have wonderful services. They are building a new stadium in the slide. I think there is a ton of untapped possible. I really like to develop plans and do anything I can to make them greater.”
Browning grew up in Ashland and played significant school soccer for legendary coach Danny Horn. He served as a volunteer pupil assistant at Auburn, used a few years as an assistant mentor at Beauregard, three many years as offensive coordinator at Dadeville and one particular 12 months as quarterbacks coach at Prairie View A&M before taking more than at Pike Road.
The 2021 Pike Street workforce scored an regular of 46.4 factors for every match, although providing up just 10.1. The group provided Alabama DT signee Khurtiss Perry, Ole Miss RB signee Quinshon Judkins and UAB athlete signee Iverson Hooks among other individuals.
“Football is all about interactions,” Browning explained. “That is what we’ve created the basis of our aims. You have to have good self-control and fantastic relationships with young children. No child would like to hear until they know how a lot you treatment. The techniques will change relying on the personnel, but there will normally be a basis of loving little ones. That main of our program will never transform.”
Browning reported he would be doing work with the superintendents of the two colleges to work out a start off day at Greenville.
In addition to Browning’s use, Greenville principal Jamie Howard also introduced the selecting of boys basketball coach Brandon Matthews.
“These two people today will bring valuable expertise and enthusiasm to our athletic packages at Greenville Substantial University,” Howard mentioned in a school launch. “We welcome them and their households to the Greenville Group and glance forward to performing intently with them.”