Alan Pridmore

Alan Pridmore played football for Hall of Fame coach Robert Herring at Jones Valley High School in Birmingham. After graduating high school in 1971 he received a B.S. in History and Physical Education from the University of Alabama-Birmingham and later a Masters Degree in History from UAB. Pridmore got his coaching start when Herring hired him as a student assistant at Jones Valley in the 1970s. He landed his first head coaching job at Gardendale High School in 1984 where he spent eight seasons leading the Rockets to the playoffs each year. His 1984 and 1986 teams finished the regular season undefeated. His teams also won seven area titles from 1984-1991. Pridmores teams at Gardendale won the Birmingham Dental Clinic Bowl games from 1984-87. Following the 1991 season Pridmore moved to Minor High School as the head football coach. In six seasons at Minor, four of his teams reached the playoffs and three won region crowns. Hueytown would come calling in the summer of 1998 and Pridmore would spend one year with the program as the head coach. Coach Pridmore resigned from Hueytown in 1999 to become an assistant to Hal Riddle at Clay-Chalkville where he helped the team win a state championship that season. He later served as an assistant coach at John Carroll and Mortimer Jordan. During his tenure as a coach, Coach Pridmore also coached wrestling at Pleasant Grove and John Carroll, girls basketball at Gardendale, tennis and indoor track at Gardendale, soccer at Minor and JV baseball at Minor and Gardendale. His overall coaching record is 103-68 in fifteen seasons at the helm. Coach Pridmores teams qualified for the playoffs twelve times with a record of 13-12 and his teams won ten area and region titles. He was named the 1984 Jefferson County Coach of the Year and the 1985 Big Orange Football Coach of the Year.