After almost a year the Boiling Springs athletic department has found their new athletic director in Westwood administrator Evan Moxie, who was approved in a vote by the Spartanburg County District Two school board at their monthly school board meeting on Tuesday night. Moxie takes over the full time job after former athletic director Hal McManus left for Socastee this past June and from Rick Tate who has been serving as the interim athletic director since McManus left.
Moxie has spent his last fourteen years working in education as a head wrestling coach, head strength coach, varsity football assistant, assistant AD and a full time administrator. He spent the last year as an administrator at Westwood High School in Columbia, SC but prior to that was the head wrestling coach at River Bluff High School for five seasons. As wrestling coach at River Bluff he won four straight region titles, two lower state titles, and also won the 5A state championship in 2017, in their fourth year of competition. Prior to his time at River Bluff he also coached at Lugoff-Elgin and Cardinal Newman high schools where he won multiple state titles in wrestling between both schools. Moxie said that his desire to join the Boiling Springs athletic program came from admiring how the Bulldogs teams competed when he's been in competition against them over the years and when the opportunity came to lead the program it was a chance that he couldn't turn down. "Through my years of coaching I've had the opportunity to compete against and watch teams from Boiling Springs in action," said Moxie. "I've always admired the effort and competitiveness that the players and coaches displayed. When the position became open I knew that this would be an awesome opportunity and after meeting with members of the leadership team at Boiling Springs I was left with no doubt that this is where I wanted to spend the rest of my career." Moxie said that when he evaluates teams he has three key characteristics that all teams should have in common and he feels certain the teams at Boiling Springs share in these beliefs as well. He believes that the athletes should be great achievers in the classroom, always competing regardless of the score, and that both players and coaches should always show great discipline. "When attempting to evaluate sports teams I feel as though there are some key attributes that they should all have in common," said Moxie. "I feel certain that the programs I will be working with at Boiling Springs share these traits and I will work diligently to provide them the support they need to make Boiling Springs the premier athletic department in the state of South Carolina." Moxie is originally from Canton, OH and moved to South Carolina in 2007. He will be joined in his move to Boiling Springs by his wife Jessica and their three sons Brayden (7), Whitt (1), and a third son due in October. Comments are closed.
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