Coach Smith is beginning his sixth year as Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at Hueytown High School.  In 2007, he led the Golden Gophers to their best season since 1958 with a 10-2 record.  He was named the 2007 Bob Finley Coach of the Year and the Birmingham News Western Coach of the Year for the second year in a row.  In 2006, he led the Golden Gophers to a 9-3 season, and was named Jefferson County Coach of the Year by the Monday Morning Quarterback Club.  In 2004, he led the Golden Gophers to the State Playoffs and was named the Hueytown Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year.

He is from Anniston, Alabama, where he was an All-State football player at Walter Wellborn High School under the direction of Coach Mike Battles.  He was a four year starter at guard and linebacker for the Panthers.  After receiving a football scholarship to Jacksonville State University, he went on to be a four year letterman and a three year starter for Coach Bill Burgess.  The Gamecocks were 44-6, and made four straight trips to the National Playoffs and played for two National Championships.

 Coach Smith started his coaching career in 1992 at Handley High School.  He was offensive and defensive line coach, strength coach, and head track coach.  The Tigers went 11-3 and advanced to the semi-finals in 4A.  In 1993, Coach Smith moved to Hueytown and rejoined his high school coach Mike Battles.  He served as offensive coordinator, strength coach, wrestling coach and head track coach at Hueytown High School.  In 1995, Hueytown advanced to the 6A semi-finals.  In 1996, Coach Battles and Coach Smith moved to Pascagoula, Mississippi to coach at a new school called Gautier High School.  Coach Smith served as offensive coordinator, strength coach, and head track coach.  The Gators went 10-0 the first season they had a team.  In July, 1997, Coach Smith and his family accepted the head coaching job at Ohatchee High School.  In six seasons as Head Coach of the Indians, they were 41-24 and advanced to the playoffs three times.  Coach Smith was named Calhoun County Coach of the Year for three consecutive years.  In 2002, the Indians finished the season as Region Champions and advanced to the quarter finals.

 Coach Smith is married to the former Lisa Angel of Anniston, Alabama.  They have three children.  Judd is thirteen and a student at Hueytown Middle School.  Leah is seven and Jett is six, and both are students at Hueytown Elementary School.  The Smith family are members of Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church.

Coach Brandon Turner

Coach Turner is a 1994 graduate of Handley High School in Roanoke, Alabama.  He later went on to get his degree at the University of Alabama.  From 1999 to 2001, he coached at Wadley High School, where he was part of two consecutive playoff teams with one going to the semifinals.  From 2001 to 2003 he was on Coach Smith’s staff at Ohatchee High School, going to the play offs both years.  He and his wife Ashley have been married for two years.  This is his sixth year at Hueytown, where he is the Defensive Coordinator, linebacker coach and assistant head coach.

Coach Robert Hawk 

Coach Hawk is entering his seventh year at Hueytown High School.  In addition to football, he teaches zoology.  Coach Hawk has over twenty-one years of coaching experience in Georgia, Florida and Alabama.  He is a Troy State graduate.  He and his wife Beth have three children; Chris is eighteen, Anna and Lizzie are both seventeen.

Coach Brandon Northcutt

Coach Northcutt is a 1994 graduate of Hueytown High School.  He was a four year letterman in football.  He was the recipient of the Butch Wilson Award, the Scrambler Award, and was named Team Captain his senior year.  He was the WSMQ Offensive Player of the Game for the Hueytown vs. Jess Lanier game.  All of these awards were given while Brandon was on the team of “A Few Good Men.”  He has formerly taught and coached at McAdory and Pleasant Grove and was part of three Junior High County Championships before coming back to Hueytown to coach and teach.  In April 2007, Coach Northcutt was awarded the Ellen Northcutt Teacher of the Year Award, which was named in memory of Coach Northcutt’s mother, who was also a teacher.  In order to receive this award, you must be nominated by a student, parent or member of the PTA/PTSO.  He is married to Dawn and they have two children, Lexie and Braden.

Coach John Isaacs

Coach Isaacs is a 1984 graduate of Gaston High School and a 1992 graduate of Jacksonville State University.  Coach Isaacs has been coaching at Hueytown High School for nine years.  He will be coaching the Wide Receivers for the 2008 football season.  He has two sons, Eric who is eleven and Thomas who is seven.

Coach Chris Elmore

Coach Elmore is a 1994 graduate of Fort Payne High School and a 1999 graduate of Mississippi State University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.  While playing quarterback and safety at Fort Payne for his father, Jerry Elmore, he was a three year letterman in football and was voted permanent team captain his senior season.  He was recently named to the “All-Time Fort Payne Wildcat Team” as a starter at free safety.  Coach Elmore and his wife Cassandra have been married for three years and are expecting their first child in January.  He will coach quarterbacks during the 2008 football season.  In addition to his football duties, he will coach the Varsity Boys Basketball Team.

Coach Allen Russell

Coach Russell was a four year letterman and team captain on the football team at Charles Henderson High School in Troy, Alabama.  He graduated from Troy State University with a degree in Physical Education and Health.  He also has a history degree from UAB.  Coach Russell returned to his alma mater to work as an assistant football coach under his high school coach, Jay Jeffcoat.  He has twenty years of coaching experience, most of which was in South Alabama.  He and his wife, Angela, have been married for eight years and have one child, Hadleigh, who is two.  He will be coaching the defensive line during the 2008 football season.

Coach Stephen E. Clark

Coach Clark is a 1989 graduate of Saks High School.  A two year letterman in football, Coach Clark received the Team Captain Award as a senior.  He then attended Jacksonville State University, where he participated on the football team as a walk-on from 1990-1992.  He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from JSU in 1999 and a Master of Arts degree in Secondary Education from the University of Montevallo in 2007.  Coach Clark is in his third year at Hueytown as a history teacher and coach.  He will coach the secondary for the varsity football team and coach golf.  Coach Clark is married to the former Andrea Rondayle Butts of Birmingham.  They have three children; Stephen Bennett is five, Elizabeth Anders is three, and John Robert is one.

Coach Zac Glaze

Coach Glaze is a 2002 graduate of Oak Grove High School and a 2007 graduate of UAB.  While at Oak Grove he was a four year letterman in football and basketball.  He was voted permanent team captain of the 2001 Region V Championship Football Team and the basketball team the same year.  Coach Glaze was named to the All-Metro Football Team and the 1^st Team All Area in basketball.  Coach Glaze coached at Oak Grove three years prior to coming to Hueytown.  This will be his second year coaching at Hueytown.  He will coordinate the offense for the freshman team.

Coach Toby Morgan

Coach Morgan will be the Defensive Coordinator and line coach for the freshman football team.  He is a graduate of Clay-Chalkville High School and was a three starter at defensive end and tight end on the football team and was named the best defensive lineman his senior year.  He is a graduate of UAB and is beginning his second year at Hueytown.  He is married to the former Angey Burgess, and they have one child, Pierson.

Coach Bryan Wilson

Coach Wilson is a 1997 graduate of Central High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  He participated in football, basketball, and baseball.  After graduation, he earned an AA from Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa.  He also earned a BA in History, and a BS in Physical Education from the University of Alabama.  Coach Wilson has taught in the Henry County and Dale County school systems in southeast Alabama.  He is entering his fourth year in education and currently teaches physical education at Brighton Middle School.

Athletic Trainer - Kevin Handel 

Kevin Handel is a 1995 graduated of Grissom High School in Huntsville, Alabama.  He graduated from Troy State University with a B.S. degree in Athletic Training in 1999.  In 2000, he graduated from Mississippi State University with a Masters Degree in Sports Administration/Marketing and got a Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology in 2001.  Kevin is a certified athletic trainer and is employed by Princeton Hospital.  He provides all health care coverage for Hueytown High School Athletics.