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New Football Coach Named at Blue Ridge

Shane Clark will lead the Fighting Tigers this year.

Blue Ridge High School has named Shane Clark as the new head football coach.

A coach for 17 years, Clark has spent the last three years as an assistant coach for the Fighting Tigers.

Clark has more than 10 years as an assistant coach and seven years as a head coach. For two years, Clark worked on the defensive side of the ball and served as the offensive coordinator for the Fighting Tigers' 2012 season.

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Clark had been serving as interim head coach after Wade Cooper departed last month to take the defensive coordinator's job at Dorman.

Clark is a former head coach at Travelers Rest.

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