&RECREATION Milligan coming from NC to lead JPII football

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John Paul II has named Shayne Milligan, a veteran assistant coach with a decade of experience in North Carolina, as its next head football coach. Milligan replaces Chris Myers, who resigned following his fourth season at JPII to join the staff at the consolidated Hampton County High School next fall.

Milligan has spent the past four seasons as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Concord (N.C.) High, where he also served as recruiting coordinator and head coach of the track and field team. He was previously an assistant at Porter Ridge and Avery County high schools. While the quarterbacks coach at Porter Ridge, he worked with current Coastal Carolina star Grayson McCall Milligan also brings eight years of teaching experience and is the department chair for special education at Concord High. He was a standout quarterback at Wakefield (N.C.) High and continued his ca- reer at Elon University, starting as a preferred walk-on and earning a scholarship, before playing four years of professional arena football.

“I think of football as an analogy for life,” Milligan said. “Learning how to overcome obstacles, learning how to win with class and good character. Football and good coaches teach players hard work ethic, moral integrity, discipline,