Teams, Scores, & Schedules

Ed Sanders
Associate Head Coach/Defensive Coordinator

Ed Sanders, a native of Nashville, Tennessee and Maplewood High School, joins the Franklin Road Academy Football program after coaching at Goodpasture, Tennessee State, and Delaware State. Ed will take over as the defensive coordinator this season.

During his time with the TSU Tigers, the defensive unit ranked sixth in pass efficiency in 2014 and as high as fourth in 2013. In 2014, the Tigers held their opponents to an average of 153.3 yards per game through the air, good for fourth in the FCS.

A four-year letter winner at Tennessee State, Ed in his career helped lead the Tigers to back-to-back Ohio Valley Conference championships in 1998 and ’99. During the 1999 season, TSU posted an 11-0 regular season record and No. 1 Division I-AA and Black College final regular season national rankings. That season, Sanders was an All-Ohio Valley Conference Second Team selection and All-America candidate. He also earned the Alvin “Cat” Coleman Award as the team’s Most Outstanding Defensive Back. During the 1999 season, Sanders led the team in tackles with 100 which is third-best in TSU history (since 1987). Ed earned a bachelor’s in criminal justice from Tennessee State in 2000.

During DSU’s 2007 MEAC championship season, his unit helped the Hornets earn a No. 9 national ranking in pass efficiency defense with a 105.33 rating. DSU was 13th in the country in scoring defense (18.4 ppg) in 2007. His ’07 secondary also featured All-MEAC First Team selection Akeem Green, among the league leaders in interceptions and defended passes.

In 2002, he was a member of the Canadian Football League Saskatchewan Rough Riders. Sanders began his coaching career as a graduate assistant (secondary) at Tennessee State University in 2000. He and his wife Wajehah have three daughters, Khalia, Kaden and Tamiah, and two sons, Omarii and Travon.

After TSU Ed became the Head Coach at McKissack middle school. During his tenure the team when 16-0 and were back to back Metro City Champions in 2017 & 2018. Ed then went onto coach at Harding Academy and then moved on to Goodpasture Christian High School. Here he served as the Defensive Coordinator for defense in 2020 and held opponents to 17 points per game. The team went 9-3 on the season and made it all the way to the State Semi-Finals. Right now Ed is the defensive coordinator and also coaches the linebackers. He also serves as a Middle School physical education instructor and will be the head coach of the boys middle school basketball team.

Matt Hanson
Director of Football Operations/Offensive Line

Coach Matt Hanson played football at Birmingham-Southern College while receiving his Bachelor of Arts. Coach Matt began coaching football as the offensive line coach at Pope John Paul II in 2017 and taught English for 3 years. He also assisted the Strength and Conditioning program. He has since received his USAW Strength Certification in 2020. At Pope John Paull II in 2020 he took over as head strength and conditioning coach.

Kyle Strazzeri
Special Teams Coordinator/Quarterbacks

Steve Glass
Inside Linebackers

Steve Glass will be serving the team as the football technology coordinator, and working with the middle linebackers. Steve moved to Nashville when he was two years old. Growing up he attended Father Ryan. When he graduated he went on to play middle linebacker and defensive tackle. He got his bachelor of arts in telecommunications. Steve spent 20 years in the film and video production industry before he switched over to football. He started his coaching career at Holy Rosary Academy for three years as head coach.

In 2006 he moved over to Pope John Paul II where he coached the freshmen team. He then transitioned to coach the defensive line and the middle linebackers. He was at Pope John Paul II for 16 years before moving to Franklin Road Academy.

Steve has been married to his wife, Tammy Glass for 36 years. They have three children who all attended Pope John Paul II. He now has two grandchildren as well.

Chris Schmoke
Defensive Line

Coach Schmoke was an all-state tight end and linebacker at Gaylord High School. The Michigan native then went on to be a four-year letter winner and captain at Northern Michigan University. He has had coaching stops over the past 26 years at Ishpeming High School (MI) as a defensive line coach, Petoskey High School (MI) as the varsity defensive coordinator, and Polytechnic School (CA) as defensive coordinator and then head football coach. In nine years as the head coach, his overall record of 65-24-1 puts him as the all-time leader in wins at the school. His teams advanced to the play-offs in all but one of those years. The Panthers, from Polytechnic, won the league title four times, and finished the regular season undefeated twice. Five of those years his teams had the highest grade point average in the state of California. 26 of his former players went on to play college football in his time as head coach.

Schmoke has also been named regional track coach of the year twice, won 10 league titles and had 26 athletes compete in college including a pac-12 high jump champion.

Coach Schmoke has been married to his amazing wife Kristin for 21 years and has four children. Griffin is 18 and a freshman at Savannah College of the Art and Design, Bradley is 16 and a junior at FRA, Lucy is in the middle school in 7th, with Colton who is in 5th grade.

Larry Wilhoite
Cornerbacks

Scott Winteron
Wide Receivers/Special Teams Assistant

Joseph Holzmer
Tight Ends/H-Backs

Coach Joseph Holzmer Jr. played football at Butler University and graduated from Ole Miss in 2019. In 2020 Coach Holzmer completed the Scouting Academy certification and served as a 3rd party NFL scout. In 2020 he had an internship with Tracking Football, performing data and analytics for NFL and college football.

In 2021, Coach Holzmer graduated from University of the Cumberlands with a Masters of Science in coaching. He coached wide receivers at Fr. Ryan High School the last 2 seasons and Nashville Catholic 7th-8th grade for 1 season.

Sean Adams
Outside Linebackers/Special Teams Assistant

Coach Sean Adams is originally from Maumelle, Arkansas and attended Arkansas State University. While attending Arkansas State University he ran cross country and track & field as middle distance runner while earning his bachelors in Sport Management and master’s degree in sport administration. He has recently moved to Hendersonville, Tennessee and previously worked at Pope John Paul II Preparatory school. His former role was athletics assistant and full time substitute teacher while also coaching varsity football and varsity track & field.

John Williams
Defensive Line Coach

Coach John Harris is originally from Charlotte, NC. He attended Rhodes College in Memphis for two years, playing Defensive Line for the Lynx. He then transferred to UNC-Chapel Hill where he majored in History and Classics. Coach Harris, during the fall of 2021, was as an Assistant Defensive Line coach at Charlotte Latin School in his hometown. Coach Harris serves as a Faculty Fellow in the Upper School History department while also serving as a MS Basketball and MS Baseball coach.

Matt Perez
Assistant Coach

Originally Matt is from Atlanta, Georgia where he attended The Marist School. He then attended Georgia Tech and earned his bachelor’s in business administration. After graduating from Georgia Tech he returned to Marist to be an assistant 7th grade football coach and an assistant varsity baseball coach. After a year of coaching and working in the business world he pursued his Master’s in Education from the University of Notre Dame where he taught full-time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for two years while completing the master’s degree.

After his time in Philadelphia he moved to Nashville where he taught high school math, coached middle and varsity football, and varsity baseball at Pope John Paul II Preparatory School in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Matt currently serves as a middle and upper school math teacher, coach middle school and varsity football, and varsity baseball.