Coach's Corner: Hensley strives to grow future leaders

Coach’s Corner highlights middle and high school coaches in Hawkins County. It is designed to introduce readers and sports fans to the coaches outside the day-today coverage of their sports. Today, we get to know the Cherokee football coach.

Meet Josh Hensley

Head football coach

Cherokee High School

Year you started here: 2021

Hometown: Church Hill

Educational background: Bachelor’s degree in Special Education from ETSU

Favorite sports memory: Oct. 21, 2022

A coach who inspires/inspired you: Lloyd Carr, Johnny Cloud, Scott Rider, Kenny Cobble, Tim Battaglia

Greatest piece of advice you ever got as a student-athlete: Be the best version of yourself as often as possible!

Best thing about coaching: Building great relationships with the future leaders of our community! Watching them grow and develop into great men, husbands and fathers!

Hardest thing about coaching: Time away from my family.

Three characteristics of a successful student-athlete: Commitment, resolve, selflessness

The thing you hope players most remember about you: That I love them like they’re my own — even when I am tough on them. I wouldn’t coach them so hard if I didn’t see the potential they have.

Hobbies/interests: Spending time with my family. Watching football. Working out.

Family cheering you on: My beautiful wife Stephanie and my daughters Hollyn and Hayden, mom and dad (Michelle and Mike), my mother- and father-in-law (Amy and Bobby), and many other family members.