Kent Named Hilton Head High School Athletics Director

By: WSAV Staff | WSAV-TV
Published: May 29, 2008

The Beaufort County Board of Education approved the hiring of Lew Kent, a Hilton Head Island resident, as the next athletics director at Hilton Head Island High. He succeeds Dr. Greg Elliott, who resigned the athletics director post this spring.

As the high school AD, Kent will organize and administer the school’s overall program of extracurricular athletics, including intramural and interscholastic. He will be responsible for team scheduling, for the smooth and effective running of all home games, for verifying each of his athlete’s eligibility, administering the athletic budget and all other duties related to maintaining an effective high school athletics program.

Kent spent this school year teaching physical education to the middle and upper school at Hilton Head Preparatory School, where he also was the B Team football coach and assistant baseball coach.

Prior to the 2007-08 school year, Kent spent 18 years as an NCAA Division I baseball coach. The first five years of his coaching career were as an assistant at N.C. State and then at Radford University. From 1995-2007, he was head baseball coach at Radford. Kent played professional baseball with the Cleveland Indians organization and was captain of the 1986 NAIA national championship team.

Coach Kent holds a Bachelor’s degree in history from N.C. State University and a Master’s in Education from Radford University.

Kent Named Hilton Head High School Athletics Director

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