Who Was Rush Propst First Wife? Celebrity

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The former Coach Rush Propst is married to his wife, Stefania Duck. Before Stefanie, the coach married his first wife, Tammy Cox, in 1980. The pair were together for almost 22 years. Unfortunately, they separated in 2008 as Propst admitted that he was having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, Stefania.

In 1990, he married Tammy Cox, his high school sweetheart, with whom he had three children. Propst divorced Tammy in 2008 and married his current wife, Stefnie, with whom he has four children.

Rush Propst hit it big when MTV made a reality show, Two-A-Days, featuring the coach’s 2005 and 2006 teams at Hoover High School in Birmingham, Alabama. But in addition to his coaching and TV gigs, Propst had his hands full. He had three kids with wife Tammy Cox, the high school sweetheart he wed in 1990.

Rush Propst. Thomas Rush Propst (born December 1957) is a former football head coach of Colquitt County High School in Moultrie, Georgia, and Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama.

He had three more children with his secret mistress, Stefnie Duck, who was also married. Propst’s marriage and coaching gig with Hoover ended when a newspaper article exposed his double life. Today, he and Duck are married and have four children together. Propst now coaches Colquitt County High School in Georgia.

Propst divorced Tammy in 2008 and married his current wife, Stefnie, with whom he has four children. Ralph Clyde “Shorty” Propst, who was born in 1924 and played for Alabama Crimson Tide, is his uncle. Propst took his first coaching position as a student assistant at Ohatchee in 1977, the year they won their only state championship.

Who was Propst’s principal?

But in June 2007, the criticism became more vocal and more formal when HHS athletic director Jerry Browning, Propst’s immediate superior, resigned over numerous differences between himself and principal Richard Bishop, who was a teammate of Propst on the football team at Jacksonville State University. Browning expressed concerns over reports that grades for certain athletes had been altered to make them eligible for college play, and made those concerns known to Hoover City Schools Superintendent Andy Craig in a meeting in April. Bishop originally announced that there was nothing to be concerned about, but Craig overruled Bishop and announced that a full investigation would be carried out, to be headed by former federal judge Sam C. Pointer, Jr.

Propst also faced charges having to do with his personal life, specifically that he engaged in extramarital affairs. The topic was the focus of considerable discussion on the Paul Finebaum syndicated sports talk radio show, where Hunter Ford, a reporter for The Hoover Gazette newspaper, reported the rumors.

On March 14, 2019 , Propst was relieved of his duties as the high school’s head football coach in a unanimous vote by the Colquitt County Board of Education. His dismissal followed an investigation that determined he had violated the Code of Ethics for Educators for (1) legal compliance, (2) conduct with students, (3) honesty, and (4) public funds and property, including giving pills to students “on more than one occasion” and owing nearly $450,000 in delinquent federal and state taxes. The PSC investigation into Propst (case 19-2-1025) was settled with a 131 day suspension.

In June 2016, the Georgia Professional Standards Commission announced that Propst would be suspended for the entire 2016 season after head-butting one of his players (and bloodying himself) during a December 4, 2015 playoff game. He appealed and was instead given a reprimand.

What happened to Tristan Purifoy?

Propst came under further scrutiny when Hanceville High School complained to the Alabama High School Athletic Association that a former player of theirs, Tristan Purifoy, did not transfer properly to Hoover High and was therefore ineligible. On October 23, 2007, the AHSAA ruled that Purifoy was indeed ineligible, and that the Bucs would have to forfeit all games in which Purifoy played. The investigation resulted in the forfeiture of four games, including a 1-0 loss to crosstown rival Spain Park High School, the first loss to the Jaguars in the history of the teams’ rivalry. Despite the forfeits, the Bucs finished the regular season with a 4-5 record and qualified for the AHSAA 6A playoffs. However, in Propst’s last game as Hoover’s head coach, they lost in the third round to another crosstown rival Vestavia Hills 21-17, a game considered by many Alabama sportswriters to be the biggest rivalry in the state. His team finished the season with an on-field record of 10-2 (6-6 including the four forfeit losses).

In June 2016, the Georgia In yearsal Standards Commission announced that Propst would be suspended for the entire 2016 season after head-butting one of his players (and bloodying himself) during a December 4, 2015 playoff game. He appealed and was instead given a reprimand.

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Who was Propst’s principal?

But in June 2007, the criticism became more vocal and more formal when HHS athletic director Jerry Browning, Propst’s immediate superior, resigned over numerous differences between himself and principal Richard Bishop, who was a teammate of Propst on the football team at Jacksonville State University. Browning expressed concerns over reports that grades for certain athletes had been altered to make them eligible for college play, and made those concerns known to Hoover City Schools Superintendent Andy Craig in a meeting in April. Bishop originally announced that there was nothing to be concerned about, but Craig overruled Bishop and announced that a full investigation would be carried out, to be headed by former federal judge Sam C. Pointer, Jr.

He was hired at Hoover in 1999, where he coached for nine years, winning 110 games and five state championships. Propst’s Hoover team was one of the top-ranked teams in the United States over much of the first decade of the new millennium, winning Alabama High School Athletic Association Class 6A state championships in five of the first six seasons including four consecutive titles from 2002 to 2005 (missing out on 7 straight after losses in the championship game to Daphne in 2001 and Prattville in 2006). During Propst’s tenure, Hoover was repeatedly ranked in the nation’s top-25 polls, finishing as the #16 team in the nation in 2003, #4 in the nation in 2004, #8 in the nation in 2005, and ranked #1 entering the 2006 season by Sports Illustrated, USA Today and the National Prep Football Poll. Propst’s base salary at Hoover was $100,678.

All of the reported violations were proven false and Propst was cleared of all violations by the Georgia PSC. His teaching certificate was reinstated.

He also served as an assistant coach for eight years at Cleburne County High School in Heflin, Alabama, Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia, and Ashville High School in Ashville, Alabama. Propst was eventually promoted to head football coach at Ashville High, serving from 1989 to 1993. He then moved on to Eufaula High School in Eufaula, Alabama from 1994-1996 before being hired by Alba High School in Bayou La Batre, Alabama in 1997. In 1998, Propst coached Alma Bryant High School, the school that resulted from Alba’s merger with the high school in Grand Bay, Alabama. At Alma Bryant he amassed a 12–2 record.

On January 30, 2008, Propst was named head coach at Colquitt County High School. When Les Koenning left the University of South Alabama in January 2009, head coach Joey Jones interviewed Propst to fill the vacant position as the offensive coordinator. After community uproar over the interview, Propst decided to stay at Colquitt County.

He is the former head coach at Colquitt County High School in Moultrie, Georgia and Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama. Propst gained national notoriety through the MTV series Two-A-Days, which chronicled the 2005 and 2006 seasons of his Hoover team.

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