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Charles Spann
Coach Spann, has won many awards though out his coaching career — The Detroit Lions even named Co. Charles Spann of Detroit Pershing at the time, the 2011 recipient of the High School Coach of the Week Program Presented by the Michigan Army National Guard.  Spann way back before he coached at Pershing and retired from there he spent 41 seasons as a coach. He coached at Detroit Chadsey from 1974-99 and led the Explorers to 11 state playoff appearances and two Public School League championships. His career record stands at 143-95, as one of the winnest coaches in the DPSL. 

Honorary Coaches
Former NFL Players: Tarreance Manns (Dallas Cowboys), Jerry Ball (Detroit Lions), and Demitrius Jones (Denver Broncos)
Former Detroit Pro Bodybuilder, Ron Love
Former Power Lifter and Bodybuilder, Will Dabish (PH.Gym Int’nal
Former All American Track Athlete, Harry Davis (Harvard and Country Day).

COACH JIM REYNOLDS

Michigan: Detroit football coaching legend King's Reynolds, has 41-years of coaching.One of Detroit's' finest is now on the sidelines. But football has been in James Reynolds Jr.'s blood for virtually all 64 of the years he's been living, and the retired coach from Detroit Martin Luther King plans to be involved in the game he loves as much as possible.He's the only coach to lead a Detroit Public School League (PSL) team to a state title, and retired a few days before the season started in late August.Reynolds, 64, coached King for 35 years and had a 253-112 record. His team won the Division 2 title in 2007. King was 14-0 that season and beat Midland 47-21 in the championship game at Detroit's Ford Field.“We won many championships,” Reynolds said. “I had good people around me and some good kids.”Reynolds, who grew up in Georgia, had a lot of success at Detroit King in the past 23 seasons. Since 1986, the school won nine PSL titles and reached the final six other times.He later came to coach football as an assistant at Detroit Persching, Detroit Central and Detroit McKenzie before starting his 35-year stint at King. He had 41-year coaching run overall.Co. Reynolds was able to turn King into a Detroit powerhouse. Reynolds recalls that as a coach, his emphasis was on defense first. Football players now are better than they were 30 years ago, he admits.“But we had some good players all along the line,” he says.Perhaps the best player Reynolds coached at Martin Luther King was Darnell Dickerson, an all-stater in football, basketball and baseball who played football at the University of Pittsburgh.” Reynolds “I've been doing it all my life as a player or a coach.”