School News
Craig Little - Principal- PCHS
Craig Little has been named Principal of the newest high school located in Parrish. He began working in the School District of Manatee County as a physical education instructor at Lakewood Ranch High in 2001. He subsequently worked as an assistant principal at Haile Middle School, Johnson Middle School, and as an assistant principal at Lakewood Ranch High before being named principal in 2014.
“Obviously, I have mixed emotions,” Little said. “I have strong ties and great friends at Lakewood Ranch, but I am excited about developing a new set of traditions at our county’s newest high school.”
PCHS BULLS
Shawn Trent - Athletic Director - PCHS
GO BULLS!
Shawn Trent, Athletic Director, has a challenge in front of him like no other, building an entire athletic program from scratch. "It’s going to take some time and we understand that, I think that’s the hardest thing of pumping the breaks, sometimes so to speak, knowing it’s going to take some time."
Trent is the athletic director at Parrish Community High School, a brand-new school in Manatee County. "The thing of you being the person that walks in and sets traditions that are hopefully here, a hundred, hundred fifty, two hundred years from now when I am long gone you know, somebody can look say you started that, that’s pretty cool," he said.
Trent comes over from Lakewood Ranch where he had been for 14 years, the last 12 as athletic director. Head football coach.
With the nickname the Bulls, Parrish Community High School will compete in Class 4-A Region 3. In the first two years, the athletic program will feature freshmen and sophomores playing up, but by the third and fourth year, the school will have its first varsity classes and hopes to have enough students enrolled to fill 22 team sports. (Excerpts from an article by Mike Cairns Baynews 9)
