Heathwood Hall hires program’s new football coach
Heathwood Hall has filled its football coaching vacancy.
Rabun Gap (Ga.) assistant coach Rick Reetz will be the Highlanders’ new football coach. Reetz takes over for Danny Lewis, who left to take an assistant coaching position at The Citadel.
Reetz was one of three finalists for the job.
Reetz spent last season as offensive coordinator for Rabun Gap and has more than 30 years of coaching experience. Rabun Gap averaged 382 yards of offense in 2022 and featured Division I prospect in quarterback Gavin Owens.
Before Rabun Gap, Reetz was an assistant coach at James Island and head coach at St. Andrews in Austin, Texas.
Reetz is best known in the Palmetto State for his decade at Porter-Gaud, a SCISA school in Charleston. He was 71-47 overall and had two SCISA Class 3A championship game appearances in 2010 and 2016.
Reetz’s Porter-Gaud teams set school records for their offense. The 2010 team averaged 443 yards and 40.9 points per game. Quarterback Hudson Worthy threw for 4,102 yards that season.
Reetz left Porter-Gaud in 2019 to move over to James Island.
Reetz also coached more than 20 years in Rhode Island with stops at Cumberland and Moses Brown high schools.
The Highlanders enjoyed success under Lewis. Heathwood’s best season recently was an 8-5 finish in 2019, the most wins since 2009. The Highlanders went 5-6 in 2022 and lost to Porter-Gaud 20-17 in the first round of the SCISA 4A playoffs.
Heathwood has a strong group of returning players, including quarterback Patrick Belk, who had almost 2,000 yards of total offense and 12 touchdowns this past season.
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