VARSITY FOOTBALL

State Champions –

1994, 2012, 2016, 2024

State Runners Up –

2009, 2019, 2023

The 2024 "perfect" season

Baron football finished the 2024 season with a perfect 11-0 record and a Division II State Championship. Our players worked incredibly hard to achieve this accomplishment. They embraced the program’s values of unselfishness, leadership and discipline. The effort, commitment and sacrifice they all gave throughout the season were instrumental in bringing home the trophy. “I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to coach such an impressive collection of young men,” says Head Coach Clint Alexander, “they represent the very best of what our students strive to be here at Blue Ridge School.”

About Blue Ridge Football

Our mission is to provide each player with a meaningful experience, foster strong, life-long relationships, and equip our players for college and beyond.

The aim of our program is to cultivate a selfless team culture where every member collaborates towards a shared objective. We will dedicate ourselves to the weekly game plan, executing with precision and unwavering determination.

Success is inevitable when we work together.

At BRS, we do everything we can to replicate a college football program. How we practice is the most important part. We facilitate a two-platooon practice at a tremendous pace. Each position group is being coached on the fly and we move quickly. We never sacrifice details for speed, so we learn to process fast and practice even faster.

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Team Coaches

Jahlil Puryear – Head Coach

After a tremendous student career here at Blue Ridge – in which he served as a Prefect, won the St. George Award, and helped lead us to a State Championship in 2016 – Puryear continued his education at Hampton University.

At Hampton, Puryear quickly moved from walk-on to a scholarship athlete, playing multiple positions including TE, RB, LB and special teams. He also excelled in the classroom, being named to the student-athlete Dean’s List four times in his tenure and ultimately earning a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies with a Criminal Justice concentration.

Puryear discovered his passion for coaching in high school, spending summers volunteering with local youth teams. His professional coaching career began at BRS in 2022, where he was promoted to defensive coordinator after just one season and played an essential role in our state-championship runner-up season in 2023. In 2024 and 2025, he continued his coaching leadership at Sidwell Friends School, again being promoted to defensive coordinator after just one year.

Puryear inherits a solid core of returning players to defend BRS’s 2024 State Championship and Undefeated Season. His coaching staff are equally excited about his return, as are all of us who know him. He is a model Baron alumnus and leader among his peers in every respect.