Legendary Stags football coach being inducted into South Carolina Hall of Fame

Gerald Moody Joins the Ranks of Coaching Greats Friday Evening

Former Berkeley High School Stags football coach Gerald Moody will be inducted into the South Carolina Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame at a banquet in Myrtle Beach on Friday, December 9. His family will be present to accept the honor on his behalf.

Coach Moody recorded a remarkable 269 wins, seven lower state championships and two state championships during his career that began in Moncks Corner in 1953. He also worked at Terry Sanford High School (North Carolina) and Wando High School in Mt. Pleasant. Across his remarkable 36-year career, Coach Moody also served as an athletic director and applied his skilled coaching talents to golf, track, and baseball, leading the Stags baseball team to the lower state championships in 1960 and 1963.

“The Berkeley football field was named in Coach Moody’s honor as 213 of his 269 career wins came during two successful stints with the Stags,” said Berkeley High School Principal Steven Steele. “Coach Moody is most fondly remembered in Moncks Corner today for his significant achievements and his 10 pregame football maxims which he read to every team before every game. Many of his former players can still recite these from memory today.”

Berkeley County School District (BCSD) Athletic Director Charlie Davis, a forty-seven year BCSD veteran, vividly recalls Coach Moody’s days in Berkeley County. “Coach Moody remains a legend in Moncks Corner, and arguably, across the Carolinas. He served as an assistant coach on the 1963 SC Shrine Bowl team and the head coach of the 1970 NC Shrine Bowl Team,” Davis said. “At the time he did this, I believe no other coach had led both SC and NC Shrine Bowl teams during their career.”

During his stellar career, Coach Moody received six Coach of the Year awards and was a recipient of the prestigious Order of the Palmetto in 1989. Coach Moody passed away in 1996, but his legacy lives on in the hearts of the athletes he coached and the lives he touched.