ZACH NOBLES

HEAD COACH

Zach Nobles joined the South Jones coaching staff in 1999 as an assistant football coach.  As a senior football player at South Jones, Nobles earned All-Division/County Honorable Mention honors.  Since beginning his career at South Jones, Coach Nobles has coached numerous sports (football, baseball, boys’ soccer, swimming, tennis).  Coach Nobles was an assistant for the 2001 and 2004 football seasons in which the Braves reached the state playoffs.  In 2007, Nobles guided the Braves tennis team to a 4^th overall finish in the 4-A state tournament.  In that same year, his mixed doubles team won the State Championship while his boys’ doubles team reached the semifinals.  In 2008, the boys’ doubles team won the State crown in the #2 bracket.  Coach Nobles guided another boys’ doubles team to the state tournament in 2011.  During his tenure, Nobles has seen five tennis players continue their careers at the collegiate level.  In addition to coaching swimming and tennis, Coach Nobles teaches Mississippi Studies and World Geography and is actively involved with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.  He is a 1999 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi.  He also earned a master’s degree from Liberty University.  He is married to Jennifer and they have two sons, Josiah and Benji.