Kendrick-Holmes Called To Serve In U.S. Navy In Afghanistan Upon Completion Of 2010 Football Season

Maritime football sixth-year head coach Clayton Kendrick-Holmes has been called into active duty in the United States Navy and will be mobilized to serve the country in Afghanistan later this year. He will continue to coach the Privateers, who are off to the program’s best start with a 4-0 record, for the remainder of the 2010 season. An interim head coach will be named from the current staff after the season to lead the program until Kendrick-Holmes returns.

A New York Times Sports article hit the newsstands and the web today. It can be viewed online by clicking here.

Kendrick-Holmes, a Navy Reservist (Lieutenant Commander) and 1992 U.S. Naval Academy graduate, played linebacker and special teams and was a two-year letter winner for the Midshipmen. He left the active duty Navy in 1999 and began his college coaching career at the Citadel, a Division 1-FCS military school in Charleston, S.C.

The native of Lafayette, Ala., and athletic hall of fame graduate of Springwood High School came to Maritime in 2005 from the Rhode Island-based Naval Academy Prep School, building the Privateer football program from scratch.

Any interested media outlets please contact Joe Guster, Maritime Athletics Sports Information Director, and Jane Bartnett, SUNY Maritime College Communications Director.

Courtesy of Maritime Athletics