Houston Academy’s Eddie Brundidge inducted into Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame
MONTGOMERY, Ala (WDHN) — Houston Academy head football and track coach Eddie Brundidge was one of twelve major contributors to prep athletics in Alabama that were inducted into the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame Monday night at a banquet held at the Montgomery Renaissance Hotel and Spa Convention Center.
The Class of 2024 was selected by a committee of coaches and administrators assembled by the Alabama High School Athletic Directors & Coaches Association from nominations submitted by member schools and other organizations.
Brundidge, 60, graduated from Dozier High School in 1982 and Troy University in 1987 and quickly embarked in a teaching and coaching career in 1989 at Jackson High School. Now in his 35th year in education, he is serving at Houston Academy in Dothan as head football and track coach.
His storied career has been impressive at each stop – which has included two tenures at Jackson and T.R. Miller high schools. Best known for leading T.R. Miller’s track program to seven state titles and six state-runner-up finishes, he also served as a key assistant coach for T.R. Miller’s storied football program – helping the program finish second in the state in 1995 and 1996.
He served Jackson High School from 1989 to 1994 – coaching the girls’ softball team to a state runner-up finish in 1992. After his first stop at T.R. Miller, he returned to Jackson in 1997 where he remained until 2004. During that tenure he served several roles including teacher, assistant principal, athletic director and was head football coach for six seasons leading the Aggies to the state playoffs in three of those years.
He moved back to Brewton and T.R. Miller in 2004 where he remained through 2017. During that time, he was a key assistant football coach and directed Tigers’ track program to seven state titles and 13 runner-up finishes over the next 14 years. He left T.R. Miller in 2018 and moved to Houston Academy in Dothan where he has coached the indoor and outdoor track teams and has served as head football coach since 2021 compiling a 26-7 record through the first-round of the 2023 state playoffs with back-to-back 10-win seasons.
A well respected member of Alabama’s high school coaching community, he was named the Alabama Assistant Football Coach of the Year for Class 3A by the AFCA in 2018; AHSADCA Boys’ Outdoor Track Coach of the Year in 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2016 for Class 3A, and the Girls’ Outdoor Track Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2010; South Alabama Track Coach of the Year in 2010 and the NFHS State Track Coach of the Year in 2009.
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