JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Fletcher Senators are experiencing a changing of the guard this spring football season as its the first time new head coach Ricky Medlock has his new team on the field since he took over in January.
Medlock, who has been an assistant coach at Fletcher for the past 18 seasons, replaces Josh Corey. Corey served as the Senators' head man for the past four seasons before taking a job with the National Football League's Tennessee Titans as the team's Youth Football Coordinator.
This won't be Medlock's first head coaching stop. After starting his coaching career at Terry Parker as an assistant, Medlock got his first head coach gig with Mandarin, where he started the school's football program when the school opened in 1990. He joined Fletcher's staff in 1997.
Now Medlock finds himself in somewhat of a rebuilding again, this time with the Senators, who are returning just five starters from the 2014 roster that made it to the regional finals, where they lost to Oakleaf.
Medlock will need to find a way to replace the loss of receiver Kalif Jackson who is on his way to the University of Florida. To do that he'll turn to a handful of key returners in quarterback Alec Adamec and receiver Crisjohn Roscoe.
Fletcher wraps up it's spring football schedule Friday when they host Ponte Vedra at 7 p.m.
