Oberlin City School District has a new Head Football Coach, Kenny Washington for the 2024-2025 school year.
Mr. Kenny Washington, currently one of the District’s strength and conditioning coaches, has accepted the position, according to OCSD Superintendent Dr. David Hall on Thursday.
Mr. Washington is also a strength/health and nutrition educator at Oberlin High School.
“Mr. Washington comes to the District with coaching experience, a commitment to our program, students and District,” Dr. Hall said.
Dr. Hall noted Mr. Washington’s willingness to think outside of the box is what made him the perfect candidate for the head football coach position.
“Two weeks ago, Mr. Washington visited the Lorain County Joint Vocational School where he spoke to students about the importance of physical and mental health,” Dr. Hall said. “He is focused on the whole student-athlete, and that is what we were looking for in a head football coach.”
Mr. Washington has already started building a rapport with student-athletes in grades seven through 12 by working with them during the strength/conditioning/lifting program at OHS.
“We have eighth grade students who are interested in playing football, and we will begin working with those student-athletes,” Mr. Washington said. “I am excited to bring the program new life, and I am pleased to have the opportunity to continue the tradition of being a rising Phoenix.”
OCSD Athletic Director Mr. Bryce Johnson called Mr. Washington “a Coach like him is exactly what our student athletes in this District need.”
“He has already built relationships with not only our high school student athletes as one of the strength and conditioning coaches, but he has worked his way down to our middle school/elementary school student athletes,” Mr. Johnson said. “Oberlin should feel good about the future of Oberlin football and the direction Oberlin athletics is headed.”
Mr. Washington graduated from Lorain City Schools in 2016 and attended the University of Findlay.
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