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Atlantic parts ways with football head coach Chris Brown after 1 season

Chris Boyle
The Daytona Beach News-Journal

Atlantic High will open another search for a head football coach.

The school parted ways with Chris Brown after a single season in charge, per Lary Beal, the Volusia County school district's athletics specialist. Athletic Director Tron Griffin and Principal Stephen Hinson said the move was a "personnel decision" and declined further comment.

The News-Journal's attempts to reach Brown by phone were unsuccessful.

Chris Brown went 1-6 in his first and only season as Atlantic High's football coach.

Brown guided the Sharks to a 1-6 record last fall, though he notched the program's third playoff win — a 6-3 overtime triumph at Ocala Lake Weir on Nov. 13. Opponents outscored Atlantic by a combined score of 233-38, and the team also underwent a two-week COVID-19 quarantine shutdown stemming from its Oct. 16 contest with Father Lopez.

Brown also served as Atlantic's head coach in flag football. Hinson said the school will appoint a replacement before the end of spring break.

"We'll have that taken care of," he said.

Brown, a college assistant for 12 years with one prior season of high school experience (North Florida Educational Institute, 2017), joined Atlantic last summer shortly after Blake Hillman's abrupt decision to resign during conditioning workouts in July.

His eventual replacement will be Atlantic's ninth football coach since January 2014.