Rush Propst
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Colquitt County High School (GA) |
| Annual salary | $123,904 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | December 1957 (age 59) Ohatchee, Alabama |
| Playing career | |
| 1977-1978 | Jacksonville State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1989–1993 | Ashville (AL) H.S. |
| 1994–1996 | Eufaula (AL) H.S. |
| 1997 | Alba (AL) H.S. |
| 1998 | Alma Bryant (AL) H.S. |
| 1999–2007 | Hoover (AL) H.S. |
| 2008–present | Colquitt County (GA) H.S. |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 265-83(.761) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
Thomas Rush Propst (born December 1957) is the head coach of football at Colquitt County High School in Moultrie, Georgia. He is the former head coach of the team at 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.
He has helped over 40 players receive college scholarships, including players such as Chad Jackson (Florida), John Parker Wilson (Alabama), Ryan Pugh (Auburn) and Cornelius Williams (Troy). At the conclusion of the 2014 season, his 26-year head coaching record stood at 265-83 (.761 win percentage).
Propst is a native of Ohatchee, Alabama where he graduated from Ohatchee High School in 1976. Propst played high school football for Coach Ragan Clark, whose son Bill was later the head coach at Prattville High School, a Hoover rival, for many years. Ohatchee was 27-5-1 in Propst's three years as a starter at wide receiver and defensive back, with Propst earning All-County recognition as a senior. In addition to football, he was a two-year starter on the basketball team and even though Ohatchee did not have a track program, he checked out of school one afternoon and won the District 100-yard dash his senior year.
Propst attended college at Jacksonville State University where he was a non-scholarship member of the JSU football team in 1976-1977. He graduated from Jacksonville State in 1981 with a degree in Physical Education. 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.
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