We are excited to have Coach Michael Jackson as the new head coach of Belmont Football! We will be updating his information soon!

Coach Deaton graduated from Belmont High School in 1988. He came back to his alma mater in 2000 and has been an assistant football coach ever since. He is married to his wife, Jennifer, and they have two children, Hanna and Dylan. 

Coach Hughes is a graduate of Belmont High School and attended Northeast Mississippi Community College, Mississippi State University, and the University of North Alabama. He has a degree in science education and is Nationally Board Certified. He earned his master's degree in educational leadership from Arkansas State. He has been teaching since 2003 and also coaches powerlifting. He is married and has two wonderful children.

Coach Cleveland is a 2001 graduate of Belmont High School. During his time at Belmont, he was a four year starter for the baseball team (1998-2001) and a three year starter for the football team (1998-2001). During this time he was chosen 1st team all-division in baseball (1999-2001) and 1st team all-division in football (1999-2001). He went on to play baseball for two years (2002-2004) at Northeast Mississippi Community College. He earned his bachelor's degree in elementary education from Mississippi State University. He served as a para-professional for Belmont Baseball from 2016-2018. He joined the faculty at Belmont High School in 2019 and has served as an assistant coach/pitching coach for Belmont Baseball since then. In 2020, he also began serving as an assistant coach/quarterback-defensive backs coach for the Belmont football team. Coach Cleveland is married to Nikki Cleveland, and they have three children, Cutler, Kiptyn, and Covee Mae. 

Coach Strickland graduated from Belmont High School in 2007 and continued his education at Itawamba Community College. He then finished his undergraduate degree in 2014 at the University of Mississippi, where he earned his bachelor's degree in secondary education with a focus in social studies. He began his teaching and coaching career at Tishomingo Middle School in 2015. He served as the head football and head baseball coach at TMS until 2019. He has served as an assistant football coach at Belmont High School since 2015. After joining the faculty at Belmont High School in 2019, he continued serving as an assistant football coach and also began serving as the junior high head football coach. Coach Strickland has also been an assistant baseball coach since 2019 and served as the assistant basketball coach for the boys from 2019-2021. 

We are very excited to add Coach Randolph to our Belmont Football staff, and we will be updating his information soon!