Mark Bray

Mark Bray

  • Year:
    2007
  • Sport:
    Football

Mark Bray attended ICC from 1974-76, where he participated in football. He was inducted into the Itawamba Community College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001. His honors included All-State, Junior College All-Star Game, MJCA best offensive lineman for the north division and first-team All-American at center.

Bray's coaching career includes assistant coach at Clarksville High School (TN), Houston High School and Aberdeen High School along with being head football coach at Vardaman High School, South Pontotoc High School and Aberdeen High School. His teams have won the 1983 MHSAA golf state championship; football division championships in 1986, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 and football regional championships in 2000 and 2006.

His individual coaching honors include Mississippi Association of Coaches Golf Coach of the Year (1984-85); assistant coach for the Mississippi All-Star Game in 1994 and for the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game in 1999, and the Division-Region Coaching Staff of the Year (1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, & 2000).

Bray earned both the bachelor's and the master's degrees from Mississippi State University. He and his wife, Robin, are the parents of two children, Megan and Alex.