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USA Academy will begin play in 2020 with a mission to seek exceptionally promising student-athletes of all backgrounds from across the nation and the world. USA Academy will educate student-athletes through mental and physical discipline, athletic experience, while placing them on a national stage and preparing for the next chapter of their lives.
Rush Propst is set to become the head coach at the Ultimate Student Athletes (USA) Academy, located in Coosada, Ala.
Vols Wire first reported news of Propst and USA Academy on Dec. 29. Information regarding USA Academy can be read here.
Dustin DeVaughn is the founder of USA Academy and discussed the process of hiring Propst with Vols Wire.
“He is one of the greatest coaches, arguably, in high school football,” DeVaughn said. “He has really made his stamp on so many athletes. We have absolutely been in contact with Coach Propst, and why wouldn’t I give a guy with that kind of pedigree — he has put together — and as many lives of young men he has been able to change along the way.
“Why wouldn’t he have been in our hiring process? It has been an honor to work with Coach and I have learned a lot from him in the last four weeks that we have worked together talking about the project. We are close to getting something done and it all comes down to Thursday at 10 a.m. (CT).”
Upon being finalized, Propst is scheduled to have a press conference Jan. 2 at 10 a.m. CT at the Montgomery Marriott Prattville Hotel & Conference Center at Capitol Hill in Prattville, Ala. to be introduced as USA Academy’s head coach.
The entire interview with DeVaughn can be listen to below.
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