In the fall of 2008, questionnaires were sent to all male MVCS students to gauge their interest in playing football in 2009. Following positive feedback from students and their families, the school board voted to begin a search for a coach and to start scheduling games. They found Coach Charles Gleghorn to build a winning high school football team from the ground up.

“Athletically having a football team gives the students something different to be a part of,” Coach Gleghorn says. “It also gives them something to be responsible for.”

Coach Gleghorn has successful records at both Hatch Valley and Kirtland Central High School, where MVCS recruited him, rebuilding frail programs into winning teams. His dedication to the sport showed as he began scheduling games, ordering equipment and hiring a coaching staff, including Kent Schwisow, Deloyed Landreth and Jesse Frisinger.

When the school year started, MVCS had eight games scheduled and 37 football players on the team, many playing competitive football for the first times in their lives.

“This season I will be teaching them about football and how it works,” Coach Gleghorn says. “There is a lot going on and a lot of responsibility regarding teamwork and being accountable.”

For Coach Gleghorn, his new position is a good opportunity to bring together his faith and his favorite sport. The players spend time in prayer and lead devotionals among each other in addition to a strenuous practice schedule.

“Among my colleagues I was known as the football coach that was going to a Christian school,” he says. “I want people to know, I am a Christian football coach.”