Silver Bluff returns most of coaching staff from last season
Redd back for fourth season as girls basketball head coach
Aiken – Silver Bluff High School has most of its head coaching staff returning from a
year ago and the ones who are new have plenty of experience as coaches.
The Bulldogs have new head coaches for two varsity sports and are still trying to fill the
boys soccer position. One of the “new” coaches is the longest tenured coach on the Silver Bluff
staff in Brad Johnson. He will be in his first year of coaching boys and girls cross country, but
he has served as the school’s boys golf coach for 15 years.
Michael Brandy will be the new boys basketball head coach. He had spent the past
seven years as the head coach at fellow Aiken County high school South Aiken.
With the mixture of the newcomers and the returning staff, assistant athletic director
De’Angelo Bryant likes the staff that has been assembled.
“We are so proud of the progress of our head coaches in their sports, said Bryant, who is
also the football head coach. “Last season, we experienced a lot of youth and inexperience on the varsity
level. Our coaches continue to coach with pride and passion, which serves as great representation of what
our school and community has always been about.”
Bryant will be entering his sixth season as football head coach when Silver Bluff faces South
Aiken on August 18. The Bulldogs went 11-1 two seasons ago and played for the AA state title. Despite
losing a lot to graduation, they were 6-6 last year and reached the second round of the playoffs.\
Bryant said he had 46 student-athletes out for spring practice, including a big class of rising
sophomores.
Chasen Redd is back for his fourth year as the girls basketball head coach. All he has done in the
first three years is win three region championships, play for the AA state title in 2021 and come within a
game of doing the same in 2022. Last year, the Lady Bulldogs went 19-4 and reached the third round of
the state playoffs where they lost to eventual state champion Keenan. Redd has been Region Coach of the
Year each season.
Rachel Harrell is returning for her sixth season in charge of the girls soccer program. After
leading Silver Bluff to the state playoffs for the first time in school history in 2022, Harrell helped it make
it back to the playoffs last season.
Abigail Clark, who has close to a decade of coaching experience, is back for her second year as
the volleyball head coach. She led the Lady Bulldogs to a 6-10 overall record and a spot in the AA state
playoffs last season. They lost to Saluda 3-2 in the first round.
Deon Williamson, a Silver Bluff graduate, is back for his third season as baseball head coach. Bo
Shults returns for his fourth season in charge of softball.
William Griswould, who has over 25 years of coaching experience, is back to lead the boys track
and field program. Shauna Barefield, another graduate of Silver Bluff, returns for her fourth season as
the girls track coach.
LaShanteau Green is the cheer coach.
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