HOPE, Ark.-The Hope Public School Board met in called session Tuesday evening to address end of the year business, including resignations and replacement hires, accepting the resignation of co-athletic director and Hope High School head football coach Jay Turley in the process.
Turley has been the gridiron leader for the Bobcats since 2010, when he came to Hope from Murfreesboro. He was named co-athletic director for the school district with HHS girls basketball coach Susan Powers in 2017.
"The HPS is grateful for the work coach Turley has put into our program," Hope Public School Superintendent Bobby Hart said. "He has done an awesome job and we wish him the very best in this next step in his career.
HPS and our community are better as a result of his work."
Turley came to Hope in 2010 after four seasons at Murfreesboro as athletic director and head football coach.
He has also coached at Denison, Texas, Fouke, and began his coaching career at Lakeside as junior and senior high physical education teacher and varsity football backfield coach, as well as junior high girls' track coach.