Rockdale’s new head football coach/athletic director isn’t new.
At least, not to Rockdale.
Jacob Campsey, 32, was promoted to that position Thursday afternoon by Rockdale ISD trustees on the most unique head coach selection school board meeting in school history.
Due to the COVID-19 situation, trustees didn’t gather but held a phone conference to select Campsey to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Jeff Miller last month.
EXPERIENCE—Campsey has been defensive coordinator under Miller for the past six years.
Those have been years of glory and included the 2017 state championship and a playoff berth every season.
“I’m excited about becoming head coach and I’m excited about this upcoming season,” Campsey told The Reporter. “We’ve got a very good team coming back.”
Campsey, and all coaches this fall, will of course face a task no coach has undertaken before, getting a team prepared in the wake of a pandemic which will have taken an unknown number of American lives during the school year.
“We will just take the next step,” he said. “We’ve all got to do whatever it takes to get through these times.”
“The entire athletic program will work together,” Campsey said. “And we will get there.”
WARHORSE—Campsey was a Warhorse.
That’s the mascot in Devine, southwest of San Antonio.
He played quarterback and outside linebacker for the Warhorses, graduating in 2006 and went on to the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, graduating in 2011.
After graduation from college he coached in Rogers and Thrall.
“So I was very familiar with Central Texas, and Rockdale, before getting the opportunity to come here and work under Coach Miller,” he said.
Campsey and his wife, Jenah a second grade teacher at Rockdale Elementary School, met at UMHB.
They have two children—Emerie, age 4, and three-year-old Levy.
Dr. Monzingo said there were 71 applicants for the position and four finalists.
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