Coach Henry Johnson is an accomplished championship football coach and athletic director who guided programs at Clarksdale and West Bolivar during his 29-year career.  A native of Cleveland, Henry was an outstanding scholar athlete at West Bolivar in Rosedale and continued to play football at Delta State where he was a Gulf South Conference Academic All-Conference selection, led the team in interceptions in 1995, and was named Most Valuable Defensive Back along with a Coaches Award.  He served a term in the Mississippi National Guard and worked as a graduate assistant at Delta State before starting his coaching career as an assistant football coach in 1998 at Palmer High in Marks.  He arrived at his alma mater West Bolivar in 2000 as head football coach and began a run of success on the high school gridiron.  His West Bolivar teams for the next 13 seasons would win 142 games with only 32 losses.  Henry’s West Bolivar squads captured 10 district titles, 2 North state crowns, and two class 2A state championships in 2007 and 2011.  His 2007 state title team finished with a perfect 15-0 record.  In 2013, he arrived at Clarksdale High where he took over as head football coach and athletic director at a program that featured 2 junior highs, one high school, a 33-person athletic staff, 275 students, and a budget of $125,000.  Coach Johnson was instrumental in building a new 8.5 million dollar football stadium for Clarksdale in 2020 that included a new track, equipment, and jumbotron scoreboard.  On the field, he guided the Wildcat football team to a record of 62-45 in 9 seasons including two district titles. Coach Johnson left Clarksdale in 2022 for Hollandale Simmons where he served as an assistant football coach for 3 years.  Overall, Coach Johnson led his football teams in 281 games claiming 204 wins and only 77 losses for a 72.6% winning percentage.  His teams won 12 district crowns, 2 North State titles, and two state championships.  Henry has been rewarded for his coaching efforts with nine coach of the year honors from the Bolivar Commercial (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010), the Delta Democrat Times (2009), the Clarksdale Press Register (2013, 2015, 2018), and Farm Bureau (2020).  Coach Johnson served as an assistant coach in the 2011 Bernard Blackwell All-Star Football Classic, as an assistant coach in 2015 and as head coach in 2018 in the Mississippi/Alabama All-Star Football Classic.  He is a longstanding MAC member who has served on the MAC Football Committee and has been a member of the MPE, the MHSAA Executive Board, and a member of the MAAA.  He served as a clinic speaker for the MAC in 2007 and 2011 and was a clinic speaker at the Mississippi State clinic from 2007 through 2011.  In the community, Henry has been active in clean-up projects in Rosedale and Clarksdale.  He has devoted time and money to Little League programs, helped establish a Pee Wee football program in Rosedale, and has served as a mentor to young men in elementary schools.