COACHING NEWS: Bobby Johns retires from long coaching career after seven years at Wewahitchka

WEWAHITCHKA, Fla. – Bobby Johns is hanging the whistle up and turning the lights off in the coaches office one final time as he prepares to retire from coaching football.

As first reported by Scott Rossman at WJHG-TV in Panama City, Johns, a Macclenny native and Baker County alum, has been a fixture in coaching high school football all across Florida with many stops along the way including a stint in Georgia in his many years of coaching.

Johns, who has spent the last seven years at Wewahitcka, also spend six years on the FHSAA Board of Directors including serving as Board President during the 2019-2020 school year has also been a vocal advocate of high school sports where ever he has been coaching at and/or serving as an athletic director. That advocacy has also been advocating for the smaller rural schools, which many of them are located out in the Panhandle.

To his credit, Johns has been credited as one of the loudest voices who helped salvage the 2020 fall sports seasons during the COVID-19 pandemic when the threat of sporting events was on the table of being potentially canceled as they were in many other parts of the nation.

Johns will continue to serve as Wewahitchka’s athletic director and girls weightlifting coach.

Wewahitchka becomes the 23rd head coaching change in Florida on The 2024 Original Florida Coaches Moving Van on FloridaHSFootball.com which you can view by clicking here.

Bobby Johns Coaching History

Prior to being a head coach, Johns was an assistant under Danny Green who he played football for at Baker County (Glen St. Mary) and later followed Green to Columbia (Lake City).

1998 – Countryside (Clearwater)  – 5-6
Led Cougars to the regional quarterfinals. First year as a head coach

1999-2000 – Lake Region (Eagle Lake)- 11-10
Led the Thunder to the playoffs for the first time in program history in 1999.

2001-2005 – Blountstown – 41-20
Led the Tigers to the Class 1A state championship in 2004 and four total playoff appearances in five seasons.

2006-2009 – Baker County (Glen St. Mary) – 33-12
Led the Wildcats to three playoff appearances in 2007, 2008 and 2009 going 2-3 in playoff games

2010 – Milton – 2-8
Only spent one season at Milton before resigning

2011-2012 – Bacon County, Ga. – 12-9
Led the Raiders to a GHSA playoff appearance

2013-2014 – Vernon – 18-6
Led the Yellow Jackets to two playoff appearances in both seasons, going 2-2 in playoff games including an appearance in the Class 1A state semifinals in 2014.

2015-2017 – Bradford (Starke)
Spent time as athletic director and assistant coach

2017-2023 – Wewahitchka – 33-40
Led the Gators to five playoff appearances in seven seasons including four consecutive playoff berths between 2020-2023.