Tom Edwards: Director

Tom has over 14 active years of experience as a player and a coach within the high school, college, and semi-pro football levels. As a player, he earned a letter at Hampden-Sydney College, and then he was a placekicker for five teams within the semi-pro league within Virginia. He also participated in a professional kickers combine in Dallas, Texas, matching up against former college players from football powers such as Tennessee and UVa. A quadriceps injury guided him to the sidelines as a coach soon thereafter.

As a semi-pro football coach, he coached two All-America players, one placekicker and one punter. Over that time, he has sharpened his ability to evaluate and coach players on techniques that maximize their ability for placekicking, as well as helping to improve their mental approach to the game. Deciding to give professional playing one last chance, Tom tried out for the Arena Football League in 2003, but he came up short due to the lingering quadriceps injury. He is currently a private kicking coach for several college and high school athletes. Tom once played in one football game a year as a placekicker in the annual “Charity Bowl” football game to benefit the Joy Fund—he played in this game 14 times until he retired in 2009. As member of the Board of Directors for the “Charity Bowl”, Tom is an advocate for knowledge of, and execution of, proper techniques to maximize a placekicker’s ability to perform and self-evaluate.

Kevin Miller, Counselor:

Kevin is a former U.S. Marine that dove into the world of kicking in 2005. He is currently playing for Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. Kevin is striving to continue his growth and improvement as a placekicker, and has ambitions to play professionally, utilizing his powerful work ethic and his Marine Corp-supplied determination. His significant improvement this season was based on his increased knowledge of effective placekicking technique and on his more confident mental game.

Brooks Crawford, Counselor:

Brooks is finishing his senior year at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA. He is a punter and place kicker from Smithfield High School and has played football for 6 years. In 2005 he was selected as an All-District punter and Daily Press all-star for his work with the Smithfield Packers, while having a perfect season on field goal and extra points attempts. In 2006, he was selected as an All-District punter again, as well as the Associated Press's All-State punter, leading Virginia with a 45.6 yards per punt average with a longest of 79 yards. Following his senior year Brooks traveled across the country working out for various D-I and D-II special teams coaches before deciding on D-III Randolph-Macon, where he played varsity football for two years.

Jeffery Nagle, Counselor:

Jeffrey attended Hampton Roads Academy, in which he graduated in 2006. Jeff achieved All Conference Punter-TCIS and ODFC Conferences, Honorable Mention Kicker- TCIS conferance, all within his senior season. Currently he is a Senior at Randolph Macon College majoring in business/economics, and started 4 games as the punter during his sophomore season. In his "down time", he works on a farm in Colonial Williamsburg.

Grant Hall, Counselor:

As a junior and the starting place-kicker at Salem High School, Grant earned First Team All-River Ridge District and All-Region III, as well as Second Team All-State AA. During his senior year as the starting place-kicker, punter, and kickoff speciallist for Salem High School, Grant was Second Team All-District and helped lead his team to the AA State Championship game of 2004. At Hampden-Sydney College, Grant was the starting place-kicker and second-string punter and kickoff specialist his sophomore year after being injured his freshman season. He currently lives in Roanoke, VA.

Jonathan Plisco, Counselor:

Jonathan Plisco, currently a junior at Old Dominion University, lettered in both football and baseball at Woodside High School in Newport News, where he played punter, placekicker, tight end and linebacker. He was named second Team All-District as a punter during his final two seasons. During his first two seasons at ODU, Jonathan lead the nation (FCS teams) in punting (44.84 yards) his freshman year, coming in second his sophomore year (44.30 yards). In his two seasons as a Monarch, Jonathan has been named to All-America teams by the Associated Press, The College Sporting News, The Sports Network, Lindy's, Phil Steele, Consensus Draft Services, and to the FCS College Football Performance Award Watch List. He is majoring in mechanical engineering.