SAPP STEPS DOWN AS HEAD COACH

(CAMERON)  Long time Yoe High head coach and Athletic Director, Randy Sapp will not head up the 2003 Cameron Yoemen football team.  According to Yoe High Principal, Clint McMahon, Sapp requested a re-assignment on Tuesday.  Superintendent Maxie Morgan and the Cameron school board approved the move that will keep Sapp on board as an assistant football coach, and he will also teach a PE class.  McMahon stressed that this particular re-assignment was at Sapp’s request.  Offensive Co-coordinator Mike Mullins was named as the new head football coach and athletic director.

Sapp served as a long time assistant coach starting in 1981, and was named head coach and athletic director in ’96, when he took the Yoemen to the quarter-final round of the playoffs.  Sapp guided the Yoemen to the playoffs in 6 of his 7 seasons, reaching the quarter-final round twice, once in ’96 and again in 2000 when the Yoemen lost in overtime to Marlin.  Sapp compiled a career record of 61-24 in his 7 seasons as head coach.  Sapp said the job entails a lot of stress, and that was the bottom line.

Following Sapp’s only losing season as head coach, he was offered a reassignment within the district.  However widespread community support for Sapp helped to secure a 1 year extension of his contract as Athletic Director.  (See story) 

Sapp, who is a 1975 graduate of Yoe High School, has coached in no other district during his career.  In his first year as an assistant, the Cameron Yoemen won their only state football championship in 1981.