Cedar Shoals football has hired its new head coach in Rusty Charpia.
The announcement was posted to the Clarke County School District’s website on Thursday.
“Coach Charpia separated himself from the rest with his football resume, his energy, and his passion for coaching kids,” Cedar Shoals athletic director L’Dreco Thomas said in the press release. “He has taken programs that were similar to where we are and built them into winners. His passion to build Cedar Shoals into a top program in Georgia was evident, and his plan to do so was clear.”
Charpia has been a coach for more than 30 years between football, baseball and track and field.
He was the head coach and athletic director at Brookland-Cayce in Cayce, S.C., for over a decade, getting his start in 2011 and amassing more than 90 wins to become the school’s all-time winningest coach. He led the Bearcats to three state championship games in the last seven seasons and collected five region titles (2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023).
Before that, he was an assistant football coach at Marlboro County, assistant football and head track coach at James Island and an assistant football and head baseball coach at Woodland. He also had graduate assistant football coaching rolls at the universities of Arkansas (1991-93) and Georgia (1995-96).
Charpia is a Clemson graduate who played collegiate baseball and football. He also spent some time in the Milwaukee Brewers organization before he began his longtime coaching career.
Since he got his start, more than 60 of his football players have signed college scholarships. He was hired by Cedar Shoals during the offseason after the Jaguars fired Leroy Ryals.
Ryals had been with the program nine years, collecting a 40-55 record and six straight trips to the playoffs after a seven-year drought. He went 0-10 in his final season.
“We just felt…
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Author : Athens Banner-Herald
Publish date : 2025-02-21 01:11:00
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