Superintendent Dr. James Hockenberry announces that a contract has been extended and signed by Kelly Spann to be the Roughriders' new head baseball coach.

Spann comes to Center ISD with 18 years of coaching experience, which includes head coach and assistant for a NCAA Division III College Program, assistant baseball coach at Northwestern State University, and head coach and assistant at Natchitoches Central High School, a 5A program.

Spann has coached the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Grays, a summer collegiate team (wooden bat league).  

He played college baseball as well, and has a Master's Degree in Sports Science, and has been a collegiate athletic recruiter, and a Director of Athletics.

Coach Spann is married with two children. He has a 7th grade boy and a 9th grade girl. They are relocating to the area.

His wife will be applying for positions in the district as a paraprofessional.

Spann replaces David Sheppard who left last month to take the head coaching position at Pine Tree High School in Longview.