During his years of coaching, Mitch Womack has done just about every job on a football field.
Now, Womack will get to add another position to his long list of positions.
Womack was recently named the head coach at Central Holmes, taking over for Jim Crowder, who left after two years to return to Pillow Academy. Womack was the defensive coordinator on last year’s team in his first year at Central Holmes.
“I’m very excited for the opportunity,” Womack said. “I’m thrilled about the opportunity and excited about the kids we have coming back. Central Holmes is a fun place. My son is excited about it. I really like Central Holmes. My kids like Central Holmes and my family likes Central Holmes.”
Womack has been around the block when it comes to coaching but has spent the majority of his time in the Mississippi Delta region. Womack started his coaching career as a student assistant at Delta State in the mid 90s and made stops at Greenville St. Joseph, Ray Brooks and Washington School before spending two years in insurance. After his two years in the insurance field, Womack returned to coaching at Indianola Gentry and then returned to Washington before taking the job at Central Holmes last year.
“I have coached just about every position on the field,” Womack said. “I’ve been an offensive coordinator and a defensive coordinator. I’ve run just about every offense you can imagine from the spread to the split back veer. I’ve run every defense you can imagine. My philosophy is to find out what we can do with the personnel we have.”
The Trojans went 7-5 year last but graduated a large group of seniors, including Holmes Community College signee Wykece Johnson who rushed for more than 1,500 yards last year and helped the team to its first playoff win in more than 15 years.
“We are going to be low in numbers but it is what it is,” Womack said. “There were a couple of games last year when we only had 14 healthy players. But we are going to move forward and prepare like we have 40 players. We have learned to adjust and I’ve been in similar situations before. It’s not about the number of players on the sideline, it’s what you have on the field and I think we can put 11 quality football players on the field.”
Womack said one of the reasons he’s excited about the job is the junior high class, where his son will be a freshman this year.
“We have a great group of junior high kids as well,” Womack said. “Jim and I talked about it when I got here that we wanted to change the culture here and were pretty hard on the junior high kids. We’ve got a good group of kids there and when these nine graders are seniors, they have a chance to be special.”
