Baldwin, King’s Ridge, Coosa hire new head coaches

Baldwin, King’s Ridge Christian and Coosa have hired football coaches in the past week, bringing to 15 the number of jobs filled. Thirty remain open among the Georgia High School Association’s 411 teams.

Baldwin of Milledgeville hired Jones County assistant head coach Kevin Patterson, a former Camden County and Wake Forest star player. Patterson was McEachern’s defensive coordinator in 2021 and 2022 and has coached at Tucker and South Carolina’s T.L. Hanna.

Baldwin was 6-5 last season under Jesse Hicks, who took the East Laurens job.

King’s Ridge, a private school in north Fulton County, hired Holy Innocents’ offensive coordinator Zach Slaney. King’s Ridge played its first varsity season in 2010, and its 4-3 finish against a non-region schedule in 2023 represented its first winning season.

Coosa, a Class 2A school in Floyd County, hired Brantley County coach Geoff Cannon. Coosa’s last winning season came in 2017.

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