The final season of Christian County Colonel football will end with an interim coach at the helm of the team. Officials with the Christian County Public Schools announced Monday morning that Ethan Atchley had resigned from the position, effective immediately.
Atchley’s name had been removed as head coach for the Colonel football program from the KHSAA and the Arbiter websites, sometime either late Sunday or Monday morning.
In a brief statement, officials announced that assistant CCHS football coach Kelly Myers has been appointed as interim for the remainder of the season.
Myers brings more than two decades of coaching experience, highlighted by five state championship appearances, including a 2008 4A state title, and multiple playoff runs during his career in Tennessee.
In the statement, Christian County High School thanked Coach Atchley for his service to the program.
In a statement made to YourSportsEdge.Com, Coach Atchley noted “I appreciate the opportunity to have led the program and to work with the student-athletes at Christian County. I wish the players, coaches, and community nothing but the best moving forward!”
Atchley’s departure comes 20 months after he was selected to take over the Colonel football program at the end of January in 2024.
The Colonels went 1-10 in 2024 and were 0-4 so far this season.
At the time he was hired, Atchley replaced ‘interim’ head coach Zach Self, who took over during the 2022 season and coached the 2023 season for Christian County.
After serving as defensive coordinator at Lexington Christian Academy and Lafayette High School, Atchley moved to the ranks of head coach at Lexington Christian Academy, where he spent five seasons as the head coach, running from 2014 through 2018. His 2016 went 12-1, losing to Danville in the third round of the Class 2A playoffs. The following year, LCA went 11-2 and again lost to Danville in the third round of the playoffs.
During his five years at Lexington Christian, Atchley’s teams went 46-18.
After his time at LCA, Atchley took over as the head coach at Bullitt East High School. In three seasons as head coach of the Charges, his coaching record was 17-16. His 2021 team went 8-4, losing to Louisville Male in the second round of the Class 6A playoffs.
Atchley was named the coach at Lexington Lafayette ahead of the 2022 season, but never coached at the school after deciding not to take the position. He would instead end up in Frankfort that fall. The Panthers would go 7-5, losing to Newport Central Catholic in the second round of the Class A playoffs. In March of 2023, Frankfort school officials announced that Atchley would not be retained as the head coach for the 2023 season.
Coming off a bye week, the Christian County Colonels get back to action this Friday night on the road at Caverna.
