{"id":5196,"date":"2023-01-24T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2023-01-24T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T20:14:48","slug":"oak-ridge-high-school-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/2023\/01\/24\/oak-ridge-high-school-head-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Oak Ridge High School Head Football Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oak Ridge High School has named Derek Rang as its new head football coach.\u00a0 Coach Rang\u2019s Dresden High School Lions won the 2016 State Championship. Coach Rang has an overall head coaching record of 86 – 29 at Powell, Dresden, Gatlinburg-Pittman, and Lewis County High Schools. Each school has advanced to the TSSAA Quarterfinals or beyond, as Rang has won 18 postseason games as a head coach. He has been the recipient of numerous coaching awards, including being a three-time Region Coach of the Year, North Knox Coach of the Year, and USA Today State Coach of the Year, and he has been a finalist for Tennessee Titans coach of the year. Coach Rang has coached a Mr. Football Winner, two Mr. Football Semifinalists, and 29 All State players. Rang was a three-time state champion at Maryville High School, where he played for the legendary coach George Quarles. He teaches math and has taught Algebra I, Geometry and SAILS Statistics.<\/p>\n

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Oak Ridge High School has named Derek Rang as its new head football coach.\u00a0 Coach Rang\u2019s Dresden High School Lions won the 2016 State Championship. Coach Rang has an overall head coaching record of 86 – 29 at Powell, Dresden, Gatlinburg-Pittman, and Lewis County High Schools. Each school has advanced to the TSSAA Quarterfinals or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district-news","category-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/highschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}