By Gary Lloyd
CLAY — Coaches have been shuffled at Clay-Chalkville high and middle schools.
Clay-Chalkville Middle School head football coach Chris Mills is now the wide receivers coach at Clay-Chalkville High School. Mills will remain in his role as athletics director at the middle school.
“I’m very excited,” Mills said. “I’m excited to work with (offensive coordinator Stuart) Floyd. He and I have a lot of the same mentalities and same ideas. We work really well together. I’m looking forward to continuing that.”
Chris Mills
photo courtesy of Jefferson County Schools
Bob Adams, the high school’s athletics director and wide receivers coach, will now be the middle school’s offensive coordinator. He remains in his athletics director role at the high school.
In Mills’ one season as the head coach at the middle school, the eighth-grade team posted a 3-5 record. The seventh-grade team went 5-3 and lost to Bumpus in the Metro championship game. For the two years prior to last season, Mills was the offensive coordinator at Pinson Valley High School.
With Mills moving to the high school staff, Matt Taylor will take over as the middle school head coach. Taylor was the middle school defensive coordinator last season. Taylor, an eighth grade math teacher, played at Oak Mountain High School when Clay-Chalkville head football coach Jerry Hood was the coach there, and was a safety at UAB from 2005 to 2008.
“This is a great opportunity for me,” Taylor said. “I am eager and excited about becoming a head coach of such a successful football program. When I became a coach five years ago I always wanted to be a head coach and now I have that opportunity.”
Matt Taylor
photo courtesy of Jefferson County Schools
Hood said Taylor was a great player for him at Oak Mountain and is now a great coach.
“He’s just a talented coach,” Hood said. “He’ll do a great job.”
Taylor said Hood has done well at the high school level, and that starts with training student-athletes at the middle school.
“Coach Hood brought me and Chris Mills to Clay-Chalkville to improve the middle school program,” Taylor said. “Coach Mills did such a great job this past year with the athletes and I want to continue to improve this middle school program. I am truly honored to have the opportunity to lead this program into the future and work with these young student-athletes.”
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