Battery Creek High School football coach steps down, will stay on as athletic director
Terrance Ashe has stepped down as Battery Creek High School football coach after four seasons.
Ashe will remain at the school and will be BC’s athletic director. District rules prevent a coach from also being the athletic director.
Battery Creek has posted the opening for a football coach on the district’s website.
The former Clemson receiver was 10-25 in his four seasons as head coach for the Dolphins. Battery Creek was 3-8 this season and lost to Gilbert in the first round of the Class 3A playoffs. The Dolphins’ last winning season came in 2012.
He could not immediately be reached for comment.
Battery Creek was Ashe’s first head coaching job. Ashe coached six seasons at River Bluff High School in Lexington. He was a football and baseball standout at Cheraw High School and graduated in 2005.
Ashe walked on to the football team at Clemson and eventually earned a scholarship. The Tigers won the ACC Division title in 2009 in Ashe’s senior season.
Battery Creek will be the fifth high school football coaching change in the Lowcountry. May River promoted Richard Bonneville to head coach last month. Bonneville replaced Rodney Summers, who stepped down after the season.
Nic Shuford left Thomas Heyward Academy to take over for Mark Clifford at Beaufort Academy. Shuford led THA to four straight SCISA Class A state championships from 2018-2021. The Rebels made it the championship this season before losing to Lee Academy.
Shuford went 115-11 in 13 seasons at THA.
THA named alumnus Tony McGeary to replace Shuford. McGeary has more than 30 years of coaching experience and won a state championship and five region championships coaching in Utah.
John Paul II needs to find a new coach as Chris Myers resigned to take an assistant coaching job at Hampton County High School, according to Lowcosports.com. Myers was Warriors’ coach for four years.
SC High School Football openings
School — Former School — New Coach
Aiken — Olajuwon Paige — Dwayne Garrick
Airport — Andre Cook — TBA Beaufort Academy — Mark Clifford — Nic Shuford Barnwell — Dwayne Garrick — TBA Battery Creek — Terrance Ashe —TBA Berea — Julius Prince — Drew Chisholm Berkeley — Jerry Brown — Eric Lodge Clover — Brian Lane — Perry Woolbright Colleton County — Kris Howell — Adam Kinloch Columbia — Jason Bush — TBA Conway — Carlton Terry — Josh Pierce Darlington — Raymond Jennings — Jamie Johnson Dillon Christian — Christian Wolfe — Donell Stanley
Dorman — Dustin Curtis — Jake Morris Eau Claire — Shaq Hilton — Demarcus Simons Edisto — Preston Deaver — TBA First Baptist — Johnny Waters — Jamaal Birch
Georgetown — Jimmy Noonan — Bradley Adams
Great Falls — DeMarcus Simons — TBA Green Sea Floyds — Joey Price — Patrick Martin Hanahan — Art Craig — Milan Turner
Hannah-Pamplico — Jamie Johnson — Trey Woodberry Heathwood Hall — Danny Lewis — Rick Reetz Hillcrest — Anthony Frate — Bennett Swygert John Paul II — Chris Myers — TBA Lamar — Josh Pierce — TBA Landrum — Jason Farmer — Brent Bridges Lexington — Perry Woolbright — Dustin Curtis Mauldin — Sayre Nesmith — Andre Cook May River — Rodney Summers — Richard Bonneville Mullins — John Williams — TBA
Ninety-Six — Matthew Owings — Matthew Bennett North Central — Ryan McDonnell (interim) — Daniel Sisk North Charleston — Devon Smalls — TBA Northwood Academy — Armando Allen — Johnny Waters Orangeburg Prep — Andy Palmer — Don Shelley Palmetto — Doug Shaw — Ryan Norton Pickens — Chad Smith — James Reynolds Pinewood Prep — J.W. Myers — DeVonte Holloman Spring Valley — Robin Bacon — Nygel Pearson Thomas Heyward — Nic Shuford — Tony McGeary
Walhalla — Padgett Johnson — Chris Stone Ware Shoals — Chris Johnston — Chris Dodson Westside — Scott Earley — Brian Lane Williamsburg Academy — Don Shelley — Tyler Boyd Woodmont — Jeff Murdock — Ty Sutherland Woodruff — Bradley Adams — Brett Sloan Wren — Jeff Tate — Anthony Frate
