Jason Barnes, a former football player at Bandys and the Trojans’ defensive coordinator during a six-year tenure on the coaching staff, has been promoted to head football coach./BANDYS HIGH PHOTO
By CHRIS HOBBS
HobbsDailyReport.com
CATAWBA – Bandys High has hired Jason Barnes, its defensive coordinator and a former Trojans football player, as its next head football coach.
Barnes, a 1997 graduate of Bandys, replaces Tom Eanes. Eanes resigned after two years at Bandys and accepted a head coaching job at Pender County.
Barnes played on Bandys’ 1996 football team that reached the state 2A football championship game. Clinton defeated the Trojans at North Carolina.
After playing linebacker at Winston-Salem State, Barnes has taught physical education and coached football, track and field and other sports during a 20-year career.
He began working on the Bandys football staff in 2014 and has coached on six teams that went 35-37 with four of them advancing to the state playoffs.
The Trojans went 5-7 last season and 12-2 the year before that, reaching the postseason, as they also did in 2017 and in 2014.
Barnes is the seventh head football coach at Bandys since 1964, following Dick Foster, Randy Burroughs, Tony Paroli, Randy Lowman, Trent Lowman and Eanes.
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