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Coach Brad Drehle is entering his 2nd year as Head Coach of the Waynesville Tigers and his 16th year as a head coach with 26 years of coaching experience.  Coach Drehle had a record of 97-22 during his career at Blair Oaks.  He won a State Title in 2006 and runner up in 2007 and 2012, winning 10 District Championships, 8 Conference Championships and 5 Final Four appearances.  Coach Drehle has coached at Oak Grove, Fort Zumwalt West, William Chrisman and Blair Oaks.  Coach Drehle has an overall record of 121-60 which also included a Quarter Final appearance with William Chrisman, the first playoff game in the schools history.  Coach Drehle has coached 11 All-State Quarterbacks. 

Drehle played 1 year of Basketball and 4 years of Football at Missouri Valley College.  He was the QB of a Nationally Ranked Football team setting numerous records and earning many accolades including All-American .  He was inducted into the Missouri Valley Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014.

Coach Drehle teaches weight training at Waynesville High School.  He resides in Waynesville with his wife Carey, his youngest son Braden (Soph), while his oldest son Mikel is in his first year of college.  

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Chad Drehle will be entering his 12^th year as a coach and his third year as Head Strength and Conditioning Head Coach.  His coaching career started at William Chrisman taking them to their first ever playoff in the school’s history.   He coached with his older brother Brad Drehle, Head Coach, and his father Larry Drehle.   After three years coaching at William Chrisman Coach Drehle followed his older brother to Blair Oaks where they amassed a 97-22 record.  While serving under his brother at  Blair Oaks they  won 7 Conference Titles, 8 District Titles,  6 Quarter Finals, 5 Semi-Finals, 1 State Championship and 2 State Runner Ups.  Coach Chad Drehle served as the Defensive Coordinator in addition to leading positional groups.  Entering his third year at Waynesville High School Coach Drehle resigned as Defensive Coordinator and now serves as the newly created Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Waynesville School District. 

Chad played Football and ran Track and Field at Hastings College in Hastings Nebraska.  Chad was a 3 year starter on the Nationally Ranked Football team and was a 5 time All-American High Jumper.  He was the National High Jump Champion in 1995 earning him the Frank Prince Male Athlete of the Year Award at Hastings.  He was recently inducted into the Hastings College Athletics Hall of Fame and later that same year inducted into his high school Hall of Fame at Bishop O’Hara High School.

Chad comes with several training certifications including personal, group, Under Armour Sports Performance as well as holding the USAW Sports Performance certification.  Chad has been a business owner and was General Manager of Core Athletic, a 10,000 sq foot cross fit and performance training facility in Kansas City.  Chad helped plan, implement and direct the “Tiger Performance Training” program training all athletes’ male and female year round, under one program.  Since his time at Waynesville participation numbers have jumped from 65 to 250 and are expected to grow well over 300 this school year.  In addition Chad also started a Power Lifting Club that competed in its first meet placing 8^th in the State in the Boys Division and 12^th in the Women’s.   In 2016-2017 school year Chad’s program met or exceed his 15-25% gains in Bench, Squat and Clean with the Boys ending the year on a 21% average gain per lift/per athlete and the females 19% average. 

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Coach Callis is entering his 2nd year as coach of the Waynesville Tigers and his 18 years as an assistant coach.  Sam served as a Defensive Coordinator/Assistant Head Coach at Kingsville High School in Texas.  He has also served as an Offensive Coordinator, Offensive Line Coach, Outside and Inside Linebackers in his 17 years coaching in Texas.  His teams have compiled a 94-75 record with a Semi Final appearance and 4 state playoff appearances. 

Coach Callis graduated from Sam Houston State University.  He played Offensive Line at Bellville High School in Texas earning all district honors and advancing to the 2^nd round of the playoffs with a 10-2 record. 

Sam will be teaching AP History at Waynesville High School and currently lives in Rolla, Missouri.  He is married to his wife, Megan, who will be teaching Special Education at Waynesville High School.  They have a son, Weston, who’s 1 and Sam also has a 12-year-old son, Austin, who resides in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Coach Clutts is entering his third year with the Tigers and his 9th year as an assistant football coach. Coach Clutts will serve as the Defensive Coordinator for the 2018 season. Coach Clutts spent 6 years as an OL/DL coach with the Blair Oaks Falcons. Prior to coming to Waynesville he taught and coached at Belle High School. Coach Clutts was the Head Softball Coach for 4 years while at Belle. He was the Girls Head Basketball Coach for 2 years, Head Track Coach and Head Golf Coach for 1 year and served as the school's Athletic Director for 1 year. Coach Clutts will be entering his third year as Assistant/Head 9th grade varsity girls basketball coach. Coach Clutts will we working at the Career Center as the career services teacher.

"I am absolutely thrilled to be a part of the Tiger family. It is an honor to serve our community and our athletes through coaching. As always IT IS A GREAT DAY TO BE A TIGER"

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Trey Barrow is entering his 2nd year as coach of the Waynseville Tigers and his 3rd year as an assistant coach. Coach Barrow served as the Wide Receivers Coach and Special Teams Coordinator at Southern Boone High School advancing to the second round of district play and setting a school record for point scored in a season.  Coach also worked with Central Methodist University where he coached Kickers and Punters.  Coach also coached at the KCKicking working with high school kickers.

Coach Barrow was a 3 year starter for the University of Missouri as a punter and kicker.  He was a 2 time Ray Guy Award Nominee, Ranked #1 punter in SEC most punts inside-the-20, All-Big 12 Second Team Punter, University of Missouri Co-Special Teams Player of the Year 2011.  Coach Barrow was invited to multiple professional training and mini camps, most notably with the Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Browns.  He played one year in the FXFL for the Omaha Mammoths earning honors as the “All-FXFL Team” as punter. 

Coach Barrow will be coaching Physical Education.  He will reside in Waynesville.  

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Coach Knipe is entering his 10th year as coach of the Waynesville Tigers.  Patrick has served as the Head Freshman Coach for 7 of those 10 years.  He was an assistant on the 2007 Class 5 State Championship Team.  Patrick coaches Varsity Track & Field, and has been the event coach for Throwers, Distance, and Sprints during his tenure. 

Coach Knipe graduated from Missouri State University.  He was the 3 year captain of Missouri State Ultimate Frisbee team.  He led the Bears to the Regional tournament in 2005 & 2006 and a top 25 ranking his senior year.  He played Offensive Line and Linebacker at Pacific High School.  

Patrick teaches P.E. at East Elementary and currently lives in St.Robert, MO.  He is married to his wife Emily, who is the Head Gymnastics coach at River Bend Gymnastics.  They have an 8 year-old daughter named Jewel.

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Coach Logan Smith is entering his 5th year as assistant coach for the Waynesville Tigers.  Coach Smith has also been the assistant baseball coach for 4 years.   Coach Smith played against Coach Drehle and played under Coach Gramates in high school.  (This gives you an idea how old the two are.)

Coach Smith teaches weight training at Waynesville Middle School and currently lives in Lebanon, Missouri.  He is married to his beautiful wife, Ashley.  

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Coach DeMalade is an Honor Graduate from Ocean Springs High School. He would receive a 3 ½ year Army ROTC scholarship from the University of Southern Mississippi where he would receive a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science. After he graduated from USM, he received his Commission as a 2^nd Lieutenant in the United States Army and branched as a Signal Corps Officer.  He would serve his country for 23 years in various assignments within Armor, Field Artillery, Signal and Special Forces units. During his career he attended Florida Tech and receive a Master of Science Degree in Operations Research (Math and Computer intensive degree). He spent his last couple of years as the Professor of Military Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology followed by his last assignment at Fort Leavenworth Kansas working on a Cyber warfare task force for the US Army.

Coach DeMalade has coached a variety of sports during his military career from adolescent to adult team sports.  The following is a list of sports he has coached: Adult sports teams Softball and Flag Football,  Adolescent sports teams, baseball, soccer, and football.

Coach DeMalade is married to his college sweetheart, the former Renita Ponder of Mendenhall Mississippi and they just celebrated their 28^th Wedding Anniversary in May of 2016. Together, they have two children. Zach is a Senior at MIZZOU with a Lab puppy dog named "Poot",  Lauren is a 10^th grader at Waynesville High School.  They have three cats (Bandit, Rocketdog, and Buttercup) and live in Devils Elbow Missouri.