Davis makes additions to AHS coaching staff

Matt Sorrells returns and will be the assistant head coach and special teams coordinator as well as the coach for the offensive and defensive lines.

Joel Miller returns as offensive coordinator while Scott Bates returns to work with running backs and kickers.

Returning assistant Mark Moore will coach the cornerbacks and wide receivers while Conner Foster, who also returns, will be with the safeties.

New coaches include Randy Holland, who will be the defensive coordinator for AHS after working the five previous seasons at Dacula High School.

In addition, Jeff Maddox comes over from WBHS to coach wide receivers and quarterbacks.

“We wanted to get the right fit,” Davis said. “You can interview and talk as long as you want but at some point you just have to go with it. I feel very confident in the new hires. When I interview, I don’t talk a lot of Xs and Os, I talk with the candidates about people and what’s important to them as people. If that’s in line with the rest of our staff then everything else will take care of itself.”

Spring practice begins May 6.

At WBHS, Wagner said he is waiting on official approval of some hires from the Barrow County Board of Education before announcing his initial coaching staff with the Bulldoggs, who also begin spring practice next month.