HERBERT DAVIS Varsity Football Head Coach
Herbert Davis just finished his 6th year as the Head Football Coach at MRA. A native of Brookhaven, he has coached 28 years in the coaching profession and 23 as a head football coach. Davis played football and baseball at Copiah Lincoln Community College before transferring to Mississippi College in 1988 where he played baseball and received his BSE in Physical Education in 1990. In 1998 he received his Master’s in Education from Delta State University.
Davis has compiled a 195-89 won-loss record in 23 years of coaching at both private and public schools. He has earned MAIS state Coach-of-the-Year accolades four times in Mississippi (1993, 1997, 2009, 2019). He also was awarded the 2009-10 All American Football Foundation Gerald R. Ford coaches award. Davis’ teams have competed in the state playoffs 18 times winning four state titles. He is the only football coach in MS to take five different schools to an appearance in the state championship game. Recently he has taken the Patriots to the state title game five out of six seasons, and just posted an undefeated regular season and conference championship and state runners-up with the 2018 squad, and in 2019 posted another conference championship along with a 12-2 state championship season. Davis is married to the former Darla Bullock of Greenwood. They have two daughters Chansley Hodge Spencer (30), Makenzie Davis (23) and one son, Hayden Davis (22) who also is a student assistant wide receiver coach at Delta State University.
DANNY WHITE Assistant Coach
Danny White enters his 21st season coaching football with this being his fifth year at Madison Ridgeland Academy. Coach White also serves as the Middle School Dean of Students. In 2019 MRA’s state championship defense created 23 turnovers, 39 sacks, 8 blocked kicks with a 12-2 record. Danny previously coached at Belhaven University from 2003-2014. Beginning in 2009, White was named the Defensive Coordinator of the Blazers and carried that role at Belhaven through the 2013 season. In 2012, White’s defense led the nation in pass defense efficiency (84.2) while ranking second in pass defense per game. The Blazers held opponents to 137.1 yards per game through the air.
The defense was also 6th in the NAIA in total defense at 271.5 ypg while holding opponents to 17.1 ppg, 10th best in the country. Prior to arriving at Belhaven, Coach White spent four years on the coaching staff at his alma mater, Southwest Baptist University in Missouri. White completed his Masters of Arts in Education at SBU in 2001. Danny White and his wife, Tamah, have two daughters, Abigail and Amelia, and reside in Jackson MS.
KENNY WILLIAMS Assistant Coach
Kenny Williams is a 1998 graduate of Richland High School. After high school he went on to play at Hinds Community College from 1998 to 1999 where he was a part of the state runner-up team ranked third in the nation. He Graduated from Mississippi College in 2003 where he was a part of the Choctaw football program while coaching part-time at Rebul Academy in 2002. While at Miss. College, he was also student coach for the defensive line in 2003. Coach Williams worked with Central Holmes Christian School from 2003 to 2004 as the offensive line and defensive line coach where he
was part of the North State runner-up program. He was also the offensive line and defensive line coach at Heritage Academy from 2004 to 2005 where he was part of the State runner-up program. He then served at Pillow Academy from 2005 to 2007 as offensive line and defensive line coach, helping to lead the team to the North State Championship in 2005 and was the North State runner-up in 2006. Coach Williams then coached at Brookhaven Academy from 2007 to 2010 as Defensive Coordinator where he was a part of a State Championship in 2009 and South State runner-up in 2010. He then coached at Columbia Academy from 2010 to 2013 where he was the Head Football Coach. Coach Williams finished his Master in Sports Administration from Belhaven in 2017. This is Kenny’s 7th Season at Madison Ridgeland Academy. He is also the Head Archery Coach at MRA and they won the State Championship in 2017 along with being 2018 and 2019 State Runner-up. He is married to the former Lauren Dove of Madison, MS, and they have a 3 year old daughter Elise and a 2 year old son named Grant.
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