Commerce hires Lenny Gregory from Gordon Central to lead football program

Posted by author January 15, 2025 Football

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Commerce football has hired its new head coach in Lenny Gregory.

The announcement was posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday.

Gregory has been a head coach in the Georgia high school football scene since 2015.

He started in 2015 at Centennial, where he stayed through the 2016 season and collected a 13-8 record in two years. They went to the first round of playoffs in 2016.

In 2017, he moved to Collins Hill, a former Class 7A team, and he spent six seasons there until 2022. He went 46-28 in that time. His best seasons were 2020, when he led them 12-3 and earned the region title, and in 2021, when the Eagles went 15-1 and won both the region and state titles. That is his only state title in his career, though they went to the first round three straight years (2017-2019) and the finals in 2020.

Of note, from his time at Collins Hill, he coached now-Colorado wide receiver/cornerback and 2024 Heisman trophy winner Travis Hunter. Hunter was the No. 1 overall prospect in the class of 2021 according to 247Sports.

He took a job with Gordon Central in 2023, going 0-10 his first season. He went 4-7 last season with the Warriors and was hired by Commerce during the offseason after the Tigers fired Mark Hollars. The district was “seeking a new direction in leadership to develop the program,” Commerce superintendent Billy Kirk wrote in an email.

Hollars had been with the program four years, collecting a 31-16 record, four straight trips to the playoffs and a singular region title.

Commerce athletic director Kendall Love was unavailable for comment at the time of publishing.

This story will be updated…