[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 45 (Monday, March 9, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E281]
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         IN MEMORY OF THE LIFE OF COACH ROBERT MAXWELL HERRING

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 9, 2020

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Madam Speaker, I ask for the House's attention 
to recognize the life of Robert Maxwell Herring.
  Herring, best known to most as Coach, passed away on March 3rd, a day 
shy of his 80th birthday.
  Coach was a letterman in four sports in high school and went on to 
play football, basketball and baseball at Mississippi College. He 
finished his undergraduate degree at Mississippi State.
  He began his coaching career in 1969 in Birmingham, moving later to 
North Alabama and then to his hometown in Mississippi. He won two 
private school state football titles in 1975 and 1983.
  In 1985, Coach Herring took the head coaching job at Oxford High 
School in Oxford, Alabama. Over the next 14 years, he created a 
football powerhouse. He won three Class 5A state titles in 1988, 1989 
and 1993. Herring retired under the Alabama system in 1998 and went on 
to be the head coach at Newnan High School in Georgia. In 2001, he was 
elected to the Alabama High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame 
and in 2012, he was inducted in the Calhoun County's Sports Hall of 
Fame.
  He was selected as Coach of the Year in Calhoun County by his peers 
in 1986, 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1998. In 1993, he was named Coach of the 
Year for Class 5A by the Alabama Sports Writers Association. He retired 
from coaching after the 2008 season.
  Coach Herring was a Christian man devoted to his family and married 
to the love of his life, Gail Edmondson Herring. They were blessed with 
four children: Reagan, Randa, Robert and Ryan. He was ``Big Dad'' to 
seven grandchildren.
  Madam Speaker, please join me in recognizing the life of Coach Robert 
Herring and his service and dedication to young athletes for 40 years. 
He will be greatly missed.

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