Choctaw County native Casey Orr has been named the new head football coach at Kosciusko High School.
The hiring of Orr, who has spent the last six seasons as head coach at Noxapater High School, was made official during a special called noontime meeting of the Kosciusko School board today (Monday).
KHS has been diligently searching for a new coach since the resignation of Kelly Causey last December. Kosy thought it had found its man earlier this year when the board approved the hiring of Justin Hunter. He however, opted to take the head coaching job at Pearl High School when it came available a few weeks after he was approved as the KHS coach. Hunter was the offensive coordinator at Pearl. Interestingly enough he was the head coach at Noxapater High School the two years before Orr became head coach.
Orr has a record of 50-26 in his six years as head coach at Noxapater, he served the two previous years as defensive coordinator of the Tigers and was an assistant at Starkville Academy before going to Noxapater.
This past season Noxapater lost a tight contest to eventual MHSAA Class 1A State Champion Nanih Waiya in the North State finals. He is a graduate of Ackerman High School.
He served the last four years as athletic director at Noxapater, and will serve as an assistant athletic director at Kosy. He had also previously served as head baseball coach at Noxapater.
Orr and his wife Linley live in Choctaw County with their three children — 11-year old Kip Frey, 10-year-old Colt Frey, and 4-month-old Charlotte Orr.
