High School Coaches of the Year

SOUTHEAST Cecil Flowe Parkview High School (Lilburn, Ga.) 2001: 15-0, Class AAAAA champs, Record at school: 103-18, 9 years If Cecil Flowe were not guiding a high school football team to victory after victory, he’d probably make a good CEO. Attention to detail, hard work, planning - all qualities Flowe possesses, but the 45-year-old Parkview High School coach is much more than an X’s and O’s guy who comes into the office early and leaves late. He is the CEO of the Panthers football program. He has to be. In 1993, Flowe’s friend, Parkview head coach Chuck Mize, was murdered. Flowe and Mize had dreamed of taking the program to a new level. When Mize died, Flowe decided to take charge rather than let an outsider assume control of the program, which was on the verge of joining Georgia’s elite. Nine years later, there is no doubt that Parkview is on top of the high school football