Cannon County Schools recently announced Billy Best as Credit Recovery Teacher and Head Softball Coach at Cannon County High School beginning with the 2018-2019 School Year.
Coach Best is new to the state of Tennessee. Before coming to Tennessee, he lived in Georgia, where he has been working as a teacher and a coach. Billy graduated from Peachtree Ridge High School in 2012 and went on to get his bachelor’s degree from Georgia Gwinnett College while playing baseball. After graduating in December 2016, Coach Best started teaching at Mountain View High School in January. Coach Best taught inter-related resource Math (Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and Geometry) and now teaches credit recovery at Cannon County High School.
Coach Best started coaching while in college. He first coached at his alma mater, Peachtree Ridge High School in Gwinnett County. Coach Best coached four years of football at Peachtree Ridge, coaching mainly running backs and quarterbacks. While coaching at Peachtree Ridge, he also coached baseball for three years, working with the varsity infielders and hitting. Coach Best then moved to Mountain View when he got a teaching job there and coached football and baseball for one year before moving to Tennessee.
Director of Schools William Curtis commented, “We look forward to his teaching in the classroom, the impact of his character upon our student athletes, and his coaching abilities to aid our CCHS Softball program.”
