Coaching news

>Central Private has announced that head football coach Lyn Lumley officially resigned yesterday. Lumley was hired on at Central Private in early spring to replace the retiring Mike Longmire but a serious family medical emergency in California on Sunday night resulted in Lumley resigning. “The kids loved him,” said Central Private board member Ryan Torres. “We had one of the biggest turnouts ever of kids wanting to play football and we wanted him to return but he felt like it wouldn’t be fair to the kids.”

Former Bayou head coach Terry King has been hired to head up both the football and boys basketball teams.

Central Private also announced the hiring of Michelle Yawn as the new girls basketball coach and Shelly Cothell as girls softball coach.

>John Harris is the new boys basketball coach at Manchester Academy. Harris, an Indianola graduate, was an assistant at Hillcrest Christian this past year.

>Eddie Miller has been named the new head basketball coach at Amite School Center. Miller is a 1985 graduate of Parklane Academy and has coached at Centreville Academy and Humphreys Academy.