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Alexander to step aside at Woodberry after 2016

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One of the most successful coaching tenures in Virginia is coming to an end. Woodberry Forest officially announced that it and football coach Clint Alexander will be parting ways after this season.

 

“After a number of conversations over many months about the direction of athletics and the leadership of the football program, Clint Alexander and I have agreed that this will be his last season as head football coach at Woodberry Forest,” said Woodberry headmaster Byron Hulsey in a release.

 

With a 74-31-1 record at the school, Alexander will finish out the 2016 campaign before the Tigers look to find his replacement.

 

“Going to down to practice has been the best part of everyday,” Alexander said. “Our reason for coming here was to raise our boys around the men at Woodberry Forest and we got to do that.”

 

Alexander took the helm for the Tigers in 2005. Since then he’s helped the school establish itself as one of the most respected and feared programs in all of VISAA Division 1, earning a number one ranking in the state on multiple occasions. The Tigers have won eight Prep League titles. And while the program does not participate in the VISAA playoffs, Woodberry is 7-3-1 in its own de facto postseason game with arch rival Episcopal under Alexander. Woodberry has also become a turnstile of Division 1 collegiate talent. Last season five seniors inked Division 1 deals on National Signing day.

 

“I am so thankful for the opportunity to be had here,” Alexander said. “I’m shocked at our success. I believe we have 33 players in college now and three in the NFL.”

 

Those three include 2009 graduate Kendall Gaskins who was most recently with the San Fransisco 49ers but is currently a free agent, 2010 graduate Ed Reynolds who is on the Cleveland Browns practice squad and 2012 graduate C.J. Prosise who was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks this past spring in the NFL Draft with the 90th overall pick.

 

In addition to his football duties, Alexander and his wife, Elaine had helped the Woodberry Sports Camp in the summer nearly double in enrollment since they came aboard.

 

“Far more important than championships on the field or numbers of boys at Sports Camp is the fact that Coach Alexander has, from the start, emphasized team values of unselfishness, discipline, leadership, accountability, and family,” Hulsey said.
Alexander will coach the Tigers for the last time with a home game against Episcopal on November 12. Alexander coached for five years at Concord High and three years at Northville High, both in Michigan.

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