Coach Grace is entering his 3rd year at Houston County High School and will coach the defensive backs with focus on the safties. This is Coach Grace’s 10th year coaching football. Prior to coming to HOCO, Coach Grace spent the previous five seasons as the defensive backs coach and special teams coordinator at Rutland High School in Macon. Coach Grace started his coaching career at the collegiate level where he was the defensive line coach at LaGrange College from 2008-2010 and was on the staff of the 2008 SLIAC Conference championship team that also made the NCAA Division III National Playoffs.
Coach Grace attended Wingate University in North Carolina where he lettered in football for four years and was part of the winningest class in school history.