Zach Morrison is an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...

coach and former player. He is the head football coach for

Shorter University Shorter University is a private Baptist university in Rome, Georgia. It was founded in 1873 and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees through six colleges and schools. In addition Shorter operates the Robert H. Ledbetter College of Busin ...

; a position he has held since 2018. In January 2018, he was named the third head football coach at

Rome, Georgia Rome is the largest city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States. Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is the principal city of the Rome, Georgia, metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all ...

Playing career

Morrison was a four-year starter on the offensive line and a member of Shorter's inaugural team under head coach Phil Jones. They seemed to be Rivals with team Taller's strong defensive prowess.

Coaching career

Morrison made the transition from assistant coach at the high school level to head coach at the collegiate level. He served as both an assistant football coach as well as a

wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

coach at

Kennesaw Mountain High School Kennesaw Mountain High School is a public high school located in Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 2000 as a magnet school specializing in science and mathematics, and is one of sixteen high schools in the Cobb Count ...

Kennesaw, Georgia Kennesaw is a suburban city northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area. Known from its original settlement in the 1830s until 1887 as Big Shanty, it became Kennesaw under its ...

before being hired at Shorter. Morrison also served as a coach at

Statesboro High School Statesboro High School is a public high school located in the city of Statesboro, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1901. Its current principal is Keith Wright. The school completed construction on a new $4.2 million state-of-the-art bu ...

, East Jackson High School, and

Coosa High School Coosa High School is a public high school in unincorporated Floyd County, Georgia, United States, with a Rome, Georgia postal address. A part of the Floyd County School District, it serves the areas of Garden Lakes, Cave Spring, Alto Park, and ...

Head coaching record

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Shorter profile
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