SAVANNAH — Football has been a foundation of Jeb Stewart’s life since he first took the field as a youngster, later playing high school ball for his father, Jimmy Stewart, at Macon County and Southeast Macon.
He followed in his father’s footsteps — shaping young lives through the sport as a coach in a career that spanned 34 seasons.
This week, Stewart made the difficult choice to step down as the head coach at Windsor Forest, where he has led the Knights for the last four seasons.
Stewart is a real estate agent, along with his wife, and is also a broker and a mortgage loan officer
“It was a tough decision to make when you’ve been involved with football for your whole life, and it was hard to tell the kids when we met on Thursday,” said Stewart, 52. “But I’ve almost got my 30 years in and I’m getting ready to retire from teaching and my wife and I have a real estate business that I need to spend more time with. I would have been being pulled in two different directions, so I thought it was the right decision to make for myself, and for the program.”
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Stewart has called Savannah home for a while and served as an assistant coach at Jenkins, where he was an offensive coordinator during the Warriors memorable run from 2016 to 2018, where they reached the state quarterfinals two years in a row, before a trip to the Class 3A state semis in 2018. He took over the Windsor Forest program in 2020 and led the…
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Author : Savannah Morning News
Publish date : 2024-03-30 16:06:24
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