Sports

The

announcement of Coach Bill Thorn's retirement from the

Landmark Christian School football team was a bit

shocking at first. Thorn had coached the War Eagles since

the school's inception in 1989.

In a

previous interview Thorn had said, "It was about

time to give something up." He alerted the team of

his decision after their spring football game.

In his

career as Landmark's football coach, Thorn amassed an

overall record of 64-45-1. The War Eagles finished in

second place in the region twice and advanced to the

second round of the state playoffs on three different

occasions. Thorn's motto while coaching football was,

"Given time, hard work beats talent."

Thorn will

still be making his mark at Landmark, though. In the

fall, he will coach the boys' and girls' cross country

teams. He also will continue to coach the boys' track

team, which he has led to seven straight region

championships and four straight state titles. In addition

to those positions, Thorn will be the head coach of the

girls' track team, which finished in second place in the

state this spring.

The

coaching vacancy in football will be filled by assistant

coach Tim Taylor. Taylor has been the offensive

coordinator for the War Eagles for the last two years.

He has

coached football in Bacon, Pierce and McIntosh counties

during his 12-year coaching career. Taylor also will be

the head coach of the baseball team in the spring.

Rick

Hammock, the former baseball coach, will assume the

coaching duties for the softball and the varsity girls'

basketball programs.

The other

coaching vacancy was for varsity boys' basketball. Coach

Willie Reese, who has coached at Landmark for four years,

has accepted the position of assistant coach under Coach

Bobby Cremins at Georgia Tech.

Reese will

be replaced by the man he replaced, Coach Mike Titus.

Titus coached the boys' basketball team from 1989-1995.

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