New FHS flag football coach has UT, UK, Ga.Tech ties
G.W. Curtin has been hired as new Farragut High School flag football head coach.
Teaching in the FHS business department, Curtin served as an assistant coach for the inaugural Lady Ads team in the fall of 2024.
Playing football for the Kentucky Wildcats during the 2007 season when UK upset eventual national champ LSU, Curtin later was named captain of the ’Cats Rugby team before transferring.
He graduated from University of Tennessee, and also attended Georgia Tech, where he coached the Women’s Rugby team.
Curtin was head coach of a U.S. women’s football team for 2 years in the Netherlands.
Prior to arriving at FHS two years ago, Curtin spent one-and-a-half years in Ukraine after the war with Russia began: three months on his own, then more than a year working for a non-profit group delivering food and medicine (more than 30 million meals total) while helping to get refugees out of that war-torn nation.
He also sponsors two FHS clubs: Speech/Debate and Youth in Government.
