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R.J. Beach Named Athletic Director, CCES Announces New Athletics Staff Additional
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Dr. Leland H. Cox, Jr., Headmaster of Christ Church Episcopal School (CCES), today announced several new athletics appointments, effective July 1, 2008.
R.J. Beach will assume the role of Athletic Director on July 1, replacing Travis Perry. He will also continue to serve as head boys varsity basketball coach and head golf coach. Beach has served at the school for the past fourteen years as a coach, physical education instructor, and, for the past four years, as Assistant Athletic Director. He has coached seven state championship boys golf teams and six boys basketball region championships, in addition to coaching five different Individual State Golf Champions.
In 2003 the South Carolina High School League named Beach Golf Coach of the Year. He is named regularly as Region II-A Coach of the Year: twelve times between 1996 – 2007 for golf and six times between 1998 – 2008 for basketball. Beach, who holds a B.A. in geography from the University of Delaware, has also taught middle school social studies and history, both at CCES and at the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware, where he began his coaching career in soccer, basketball, and baseball. Joining the school’s football program from Riverside High School in Greenville will be Don Frost and his brother Larry Frost. Together, they bring sixty years of coaching experience to the CCES program.
Don Frost will assume the helm of the Cavalier football program as Head Football Coach. Coach Don Frost has been the head varsity football coach and athletic director at Riverside High School for the last seven years, coaching a team this year that achieved a 9-3 record. He was selected as Region II-3A Football Coach of the year in 2007 and was chairman of the Region II-3A Conference from 2002-2006. Coach Don Frost will also serve as an Upper School physical education instructor. He has been an educator and football coach in our state, almost exclusively in Greenville County, for the past twenty-seven years. He has a B.S. in Physical Education from Carson-Newman College.
Larry Frost, Don’s brother, will also join CCES Athletics as offensive coordinator for the football team, in addition to filling the positions of Assistant Athletic Director and physical education teacher in the Middle School. President-elect of the South Carolina Football Coaches Association, Coach Larry Frost has been a Greenville County coach and educator for thirty-one years. He has served as offensive coordinator and assistant athletic director at Riverside High School for the past three years. From 1994-2005, Coach Larry Frost served as the head varsity football coach at Greenville High School as well as assistant athletic director. He has earned many distinctions during his career, among them his selection in 2003 as the State 3A Coach of the Year, in 2002-2004 as Region II 3A Coach of the Year, and in 2004 as Greenville County Coach of the Year. He, too, has a B.S. degree from Carson-Newman College. Paving the way for these new appointments were several recent developments: the announcement, on January 31, that Perry would return to his alma mater, Greer High School, to coach football there, and the announcement, on February 13, that Head Football Coach Ashley Haskins would not be returning to the school next year. Haskins has been part of CCES and its athletic program since 1987; Perry joined the school as A.D. in 2005. Larry Frost will fill the offensive coordinator position left in December by the untimely death of Coach Mike Burden. According to Headmaster Lee Cox, “Throughout the school’s history, athletics has been an important part of the CCES experience. Two of every three students in grades seven to twelve currently participate in athletics, and The State newspaper in Columbia has ranked CCES as the number one Division 1A athletic program in South Carolina. We are confident that these changes in our staffing will not only strengthen our athletic program but will also strengthen our young student athletes in their pursuit of excellence.”
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