Jasper County School District hires new athletic director
Jasper County Sun Times
Rodney Barr wants Jasper County students to wait before they do sprints and tackle all of their homework first.
Barr, who last year served as athletic director and head football coach at Scott’s Branch High School, was named the new Jasper County School District athletic director last week.
The district held an online event to introduce Barr to the community because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All sports in the district are currently suspended because of the rate of new cases in the county.
“Homework first,” Barr said during the interview. “We want all of our student athletes to work out physically as much as they can, but the key component is making sure they don’t get too far behind in their academics. We know it has been a taxing time on young people as well as teachers and we want them to continue to move forward to get through this.”