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West Cabarrus names Matthew Jenkins football coach

Jenkins is replacing Brian Hinson, who left after two seasons for Davie County

Mike Duprez

West Cabarrus names Matthew Jenkins football coach.
West Cabarrus names Matthew Jenkins football coach. / File

Matthew Jenkins had a successful six-year run at Hough, and now he will try do that at another school.

West Cabarrus confirmed Jenkins as its new football coach Thursday with an announcement on its Facebook page.

“Welcome to the West Cab Way, coach Jenkins!” said the school on the Facebook post.

Jenkins is replacing Brian Hinson, who left after two seasons for Davie County. Hinson won a state championship at Salisbury.

The Wolverines were 5-6 in Hinson’s second season and qualified for the state playoffs for the first time in program history. West Cabarrus opened in 2020.

Jenkins led Hough to a 63-17 record in six seasons. The Huskies reached at least the second round each season. They were 11-4 in 2017, 11-3 in 2018, 8-5 in 2019, 8-1 in the COVID-shortened 2020 season, 14-1 and reached the state semifinals in 2021, and 9-3 in 2022.

At the time of his resignation from Hough, Jenkins said in a statement that he was “excited to spend the last two years of my daughters’ years in high school with them and being dad.”

Jenkins previously served as head coach at Hopewell and offensive coordinator at Concord.

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MIKE DUPREZ

Mike Duprez became a freelance sports journalist for Scorebooklive.com several months after retiring from the newspaper business. A native of Oakland, California, Duprez moved around as a child due to his father’s service in the United States Marine Corps. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. Duprez, who lives in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had 30 years of experience in newspapers as well as other endeavors before retiring at the end of 2021. He covers stories in both North Carolina and South Carolina for Scorebooklive.com.

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