Battery Creek hires football coach with more than 35 years of coaching experience
Battery Creek has hired a veteran coach to fill its football vacancy.
Buford’s Ed Susi has been named the Dolphins’ new football coach, the school announced this weekend. Susi replaces Terrance Ashe, who stepped down after four seasons to become the school’s athletic director.
This will be Susi’s third head coaching job but he has more than 35 years of coaching experience. He was at Fort Mill from 2007-17 and was the school’s second winning coach with 51 victories. His best season there was in 2014 was when FM went 9-3 and lost in the first round of the playoffs.
Susi was at Buford the last two years. Buford went 8-3 this season and lost in the first round of the playoffs to Andrews. That was Buford’s first winning season since 2019.
Susi also was an assistant coach at Boiling Springs in between stops at Fort Mill and Buford and has 35 years of experience in coaching.
Susi is an Ohio native and was a standout baseball player at Capital University in Columbus. He was inducted into the school’s hall of fame in 2000.
Battery Creek was 3-8 this season and lost to Gilbert in the first round of the Class 3A playoffs. The Dolphins’ last winning season came in 2012.
Susi’s hire gives the Lowcountry five new head coaches this season. May River promoted Richard Bonneville to head coach. Nic Shuford left Thomas Heyward Academy to take over for Mark Clifford at Beaufort Academy. Shuford led THA to four straight SCISA Class A state championships from 2018-2021.
THA named alumnus Tony McGeary to replace Shuford. John Paul II hired Concord High (NC) offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Shayne Milligan to replace Chris Myers.
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School — Former School — New Coach
Aiken — Olajuwon Paige — Dwayne Garrick
Airport — Andre Cook — Shane Fidler Ashley Ridge — Shane Fidler — TBA Beaufort Academy — Mark Clifford — Nic Shuford Barnwell — Dwayne Garrick — Brian Smith Battery Creek — Terrance Ashe —Ed Susi Berea — Julius Prince — Drew Chisholm Berkeley — Jerry Brown — Eric Lodge Blythewood — Jason Seidel — James Martin Buford — Ed Susi — TBA Clover — Brian Lane — Perry Woolbright Colleton County — Kris Howell — Adam Kinloch Columbia — Jason Bush — Stephen Roberson Conway — Carlton Terry — Josh Pierce Darlington — Raymond Jennings — Jamie Johnson Dillon Christian — Christian Wolfe — Donell Stanley
Dorman — Dustin Curtis — Jake Morris Eau Claire — Shaq Hilton — Demarcus Simons Edisto — Preston Deaver — TBA First Baptist — Johnny Waters — Jamaal Birch
Georgetown — Jimmy Noonan — Bradley Adams
Great Falls — DeMarcus Simons — TBA Green Sea Floyds — Joey Price — Patrick Martin Hanahan — Art Craig — Milan Turner
Hannah-Pamplico — Jamie Johnson — Trey Woodberry Heathwood Hall — Danny Lewis — Rick Reetz Hillcrest — Anthony Frate — Bennett Swygert John Paul II — Chris Myers — Shayne Milligan Lamar — Josh Pierce — Stephen Burris Landrum — Jason Farmer — Brent Bridges Lexington — Perry Woolbright — Dustin Curtis Mauldin — Sayre Nesmith — Andre Cook May River — Rodney Summers — Richard Bonneville Mullins — John Williams — TBA
Ninety-Six — Matthew Owings — Matthew Bennett North Central — Ryan McDonnell (interim) — Daniel Sisk North Charleston — Devon Smalls — Charlie Walker Northwood Academy — Armando Allen — Johnny Waters Orangeburg Prep — Andy Palmer — Don Shelley Palmetto — Doug Shaw — Ryan Norton Pickens — Chad Smith — James Reynolds Pinewood Prep — J.W. Myers — DeVonte Holloman Ridge-Spring Monetta — Brian Smith — TBA Spring Valley — Robin Bacon — Nygel Pearson Thomas Heyward — Nic Shuford — Tony McGeary
Walhalla — Padgett Johnson — Chris Stone Ware Shoals — Chris Johnston — Chris Dodson Westside — Scott Earley — Brian Lane Williamsburg Academy — Don Shelley — Tyler Boyd Woodmont — Jeff Murdock — Ty Sutherland Woodruff — Bradley Adams — Brett Sloan Wren — Jeff Tate — Anthony Frate
