At least three head coaching positions have opened up at Huntington High School.
As Litter Media reported one month ago, Volleyball Coach Tina Magill has retired from coaching, and now we have learned that Football Coach Scott Keller and Softball Coach Spenser Smith also stepped down.
Football Coach Scott Keller has been coaching at Huntington since the fall of 2017.
Huntington has currently posted the opening for the Varsity Softball Coaching position, while the football and volleyball positions will be posted after the first of the year, according Huntington High School Principal Craig Kerns.
Huntington has also posted the position of Boys Junior High Track Coach.
A vendor event known as Christmas In The Hills will be held at Huntington High School Gym Lobby, during the Zane Trace at Huntington Boys Basketball games on Saturday, December 11th.
Huntington Volleyball Coach Tina Magill is retiring from coaching high school sports, confirming that to Litter Media’s Mike Smith.
Magill has a long history at Huntington, starring in multiple sports as a player at Huntington in the 1980’s, including a trip to the State Volleyball Final 4 in 1983. Magill was also the 1984-85 SVC Basketball Player of the Year and is in Huntington’s Athletic Hall of Fame for her exploits in volleyball, basketball and track. She started coaching in 1993-1994 as a JV Girls Basketball Coach and finished in 2021 Coaching Varsity Volleyball.
Tina also says she is retiring as an employee of Ross Correctional Institution on November 30th after 34 years of service.
In Volleyball, she was varsity coach in two different stints, serving as head coach between 2006-2012, then between 2014-2021. She was SVC Coach of the Year in 2011, won 14 sectional championships, 3 district titles, 7 district runner-ups and had a career record of (245-126). She was (131-79) in SVC play. Magill had winnings seasons in 14 of her 15 years as head coach. Tina was also a club volleyball coach at Spiketown VB Club 2018-2021 (which she helped organize), and coached at Southern Ohio Volleyball Club between 2008-2012.
As a Girls Basketball Coach, Tina Magill coached for 9 seasons as an assistant, and was Head Girls Coach in 2001-02, where she was SVC Co-Coach of the Year with a (12-2) conference mark, sectional champ and district runner-up.
Looking forward, Tina Magill told Litter Media she wants to spend time with her grandson and the rest of her family, continue working as an Executive Staff Member for Spiketown Volleyball Club, and possibly explore substitute teaching and/or become a volleyball official.
(Above Photo and article contributions: Courtesy of West Liberty University Athletic Department website)
(West Liberty, WV) — A Ross County man is one of eight people being inducted into to the West Liberty University Athletic Hall of Fame on October 2nd.
Chillicothe High School graduate Clay Beeler (2007), is being honored for his grid-iron days at West Liberty, where he was a three-time NCAA Division II All-American and key figure on West Liberty’s first NCAA playoff team. Beeler still ranks among the Hilltoppers’ all-time leaders in several defensive categories, including tackles-for-loss, career tackles, and single game tackles and quarterback sacks.
In 2008, Beeler ranked among the Top 20 nationally in tackles and tackles-for-loss to earn All-America and Linebacker of the Year honors from Don Hansen’s Football Gazette. He was charted with a team-high 113 tackles for the 2009 WVIAC championship team that won a school-record 11 games and advanced to the NCAA D2 national quarterfinals.
The 2010 WVIAC Defensive Player of the Year, Beeler earned multiple All-America awards as a senior and closed out his career by playing in the NCAA Division 2 All-American Bowl and Dixie Gridiron Classic.
During Beeler’s high school career, he was an All-SVC selection in 2004 and 2005, including SVC Defensive Back of the Year in ’05 with 1,000 yards rushing and 227 tackles at Huntington High School. After a transferring to Chillicothe High School he was a selection for All-SEOAL, All District and Honorable Mention All-Ohio with the Cavaliers’ playoff team in 2006, recording 186 tackles.
Beeler graduated from West Liberty in 2011 with a Bachelor’s degree in Exercise Physiology and is currently employed as a technical operator for the DuPont Corporation in Circleville, Ohio.
Clay resides in Chillicothe, Ohio with his wife, Brittany, and their daughter, Brynleigh.
