March 1,2006 — The Clarion Sports Page 11 BC hires new football coaches, sets ’06 schedule by Zach Browning Staff Writer Head football coach Bobby Poss has been busy as of late assembling his coaching staff, and with less than seven months until the team is scheduled to hit the field, the team is starting to come together. “We are pushed to the max, trying to accomplish in eight months a task that would nor- 1 mally take eighteen.” Poss said. Coach Poss has added three new coaches to the team over the past few months. Mike Houston, who previ ously coached at T.C. Roberson High School in Asheville, will be the associate head coach and defensive coordinator. Houston attained notability while serving as the Rams coach. He led the team to their best year in 2004 when they completed a 13-1 track record and won their first Moun tain Atlantic Conference Cham pionship. Houston was awarded the North Carolina Shrine Bowl Assistant Coaches award in 2005 and was twice given the Hendersonville Times-News Area Coach of the Year award. Houston is a graduate of Mars Hill College where he earned a bachelors degree in biology. He lettered three years in football while at Mars Hill and received several awards and recognitions for outstanding performance on the field. Houston’s assistant defen sive coordinator will be Roy Tesh, a former strength and con ditioning coach from Greens boro College. Tesh graduated from Greens boro College in 2004 with a bachelor’s de gree in sport and exercise science. Tesh played tackle and center while in school and was a four time Dixie Inter collegiate Ath letic Confer ence All-Con ference selec tion. Tesh’s credentials in clude playing professionally for the Carolina Ghostriders, a part of the American In door Football League. The offensive line will be coached by Anthony Scott, who held the same position while coaching at East Forsyth high school. Scott earned his bach elors degree in broadcasting from Georgia Southern Univer sity where he played football. Scott was part of the team that won four Sothern Conference Championships and two Na tional Collegiate Association I- AA championships. Scott also coached Track and field as well as serving as the academic ad visor for the football team while at East Forsyth. Coach Poss took over the fledgling team in January and has been busy with the tasks of building a team from the ground up. He has been ordering equip ment as well as talking to the flood of prospects drawn to the college by the football team. With the help of his assistants, Poss has been workmg diligently to build a team roster. There have been several commitments, but before announcing any con tracts, Poss wants to secure the student a scholarship. The season is scheduled to start on Aug. 26 when the Tor nadoes will face off in a home game against the University of Virginia-Wise. “1 am looking forward to Aug. 26 when we take the field against UVA-Wise,” Athletic di rector Tom Collins said. There will be eight games in the sea son, including South Atlantic Conference teams from Mars Hill, Newberry and Tusculum. These schools will present a challenge to the newly formed program at Brevard College. Collins said, “I am pleased we have been able to build a compact schedule against schools in our geographic re gion. The South Atlantic confer ence Schools pose a real test for our first year program.” BC Football Schedule 2006 Aueust: 26'^ UVA-Wise Brevard, NC 7pm September 2"'’ at Shorter College Rome, Ga 9'*’ Mars Hill College Brevard, NC 16* at Newberry College Newberry, SC 23"* Tusculum College Brevard, NC 2pm 7pm 7pm 2pm (BC Family Day) 30'*’ open date October 7'" North Greenville Brevard, NC 2pm (Homecoming) 14“' at Chowan College Murfreesboro, NC 1pm 21* at LaGrange College LaGrange, Ga 1pm * Bold denotes home games The Clarion needs writers and photographers to cover Brevard College sports. Join the newspaper staff. We meet Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m.

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