South Pittsburg High School

Team Profile

Photos by Andy Mitchell Photography

Q&A with Coach Wes Stone

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Q. How would you characterize this year’s team?

A. Our 2025 team will be a veteran team.

Q. What will be the keys to your success?

A. Senior leadership, developing depth, and staying healthy.

Q. Who will be your key leaders on the team?

A. JR Hardrick, Jamychal Buckner, Logan Sisk, Zech Green, Jordan McClendon, and Dayon Cooper.

Q. What are your biggest reasons for optimism?

A. We are older and return some key pieces from our 2024 team.

Q. What will keep you up at night?

A. Developing quality depth behind our older guys.

Q. What can you build on from last year?

A. We can build on the amount of improvement our 2024 team had from game 1 to game 15.

Q. Any lessons learned from last year?

A. I hope our players learned that what you look like as a team in August can look totally different in November if you buy into a system and come to work every day.

Q. Will we see anything different this year?

A. We will be able to throw the football more effectively than we did in 2024.

Stats

Coach name: Wes Stone (5 yrs. as a head coach, 5th as head coach at South Pittsburg)

Class/Region: TN 1A – Reg. 3

2024 Overall Record: 12-3

2024 District Finish: 1st

Mascot: Pirates

 

2025 Schedule

August

29 Silverdale (H)

September

5 Sequatchie Co. (A)

12 Brainerd (H)

19 Franklin Co. (H)

26 Red Bank (H)

October

3 Christian Co. (H)

10 Lookout Valley (A)

17 Sale Creek (A)

24 Copper Basin (H)

31 Whitwell (H)

 

Coach’s View

The new schedule is very challenging. The addition of Silverdale, Brainerd, Red Bank, and a 6A team from Kentucky to go along with Sequatchie County and Franklin County will be extremely tough. Playing these teams will obviously present its own problems, but it will help us prepare for our region schedule and the playoffs.

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