South Carolina State College coach Chennis Berry has wasted no time hiring his soccer employees since taking on this system in December after the retirement of legendary coach Buddy Pough.
SC State introduced a number of hires on January sixth, and it isn’t accomplished. Former FAMU Assistant Athletic Director for Soccer Operations LaTroy Johnson and former Bluefield State Offensive Coordinator Rashard Alston are each anticipated to be added to the employees. A number of sources affirm Alston would be the operating backs coach whereas Johnson’s place isn’t sure.
South Carolina State’s earlier teaching press launch indicated Berry was looking for a operating backs coach, broad receivers coach, video coordinator/director of artistic content material and a director of soccer operations.
Alston and Johnson each posted goodbye messages to their former faculties on their X accounts. Johnson ended his publish saying “It’s time for me to Go House [Orangeburg, S.C.]!!!”
Former FAMU coach Willie Simmons tagged Berry’s and Johnson’s accounts and congratulated each males on the upcoming rent.
Bluefield State head coach Tony Coaxum responded to Alston’s publish by thanking him for his time on his employees and that he’s excited for his subsequent job at South Carolina State College.
Johnson has labored in athletic departments for over 15 years with nearly ten years at HBCUs. He has served because the Assistant AD for Soccer Operations at FAMU since 2021. Earlier than arriving at FAMU, he spent three years because the Assistant Athletic Director for Inside Operations at Jackson State. Johnson has labored onerous to grow to be an assistant athletic director after serving because the tools supervisor for Mississippi Valley State, Tennessee State, Arkansas Pine-Bluff, Center Tennessee State, South Carolina State, and director of apparatus operations at Morgan State.
Alston spent the previous season because the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Bluefield State. In 2022, he served because the affiliate head coach and co-offensive coordinator. He got here to Bluefield State in 2021 because the operating backs coach and recruiting coordinator. Earlier than touchdown at Bluefield State, he spent two years as an offensive graduate assistant at Hastings Faculty.
