CHARLOTTE — Myers Park High School has a new man at the helm of its football team, the school announced on Friday.
Jason McManus was hired as the school’s next football coach. He has an extensive history coaching college and high school football across the South.
McManus spent 2021 as the offensive coordinator for Grayson High School, a 7A-level program in Georgia. The team was nationally ranked and made it to the state semifinals.
He also spent half a decade as offensive coordinator at South Pointe High School in Rock Hill.
During his time on staff from 2014 to 2019, South Pointe won four straight South Carolina state championships. The team broke a number of school records and sent 45 student-athletes on the play college football.
McManus’ resume also includes time coaching at Middle Tennessee State University, Sewanee College, Tusculum College, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Troy University, Itawamba Community College, Spartanburg High School and Chapman High School, as well as an offensive coordinator for the 2019 U.S. Army All-American Game.
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The Myers Park football team finished 8-4 in 2021 and made an appearance in the state playoffs, but was forced to forfeit the results after the North Carolina High School Athletic Association ruled that the team had ineligible players on its roster.
Channel 9 learned from sources that the investigation began when some players were called into a parent meeting and school leaders found out their parents didn’t actually live in the school zone.
The school appealed NCHSAA’s decision, but the ruling was upheld.
MPHS was forced to return $6,700 the school earned from its playoff games in addition to a $250 fine levied by NCHSAA.
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