Former Charlotte 49ers assistant Keith Emery is the new head football coach at Charlotte Catholic. Emery, the fourth head coach at the southeast Charlotte school in 50 years, replaces Matthew Reilly, who coached the Cougars for one season. Reilly, 32, resigned to take an assistant job at his alma mater, St. Xavier, in Ohio. Emery brings a lot of experience to the new job, including most recently serving as offensive analyst and director of high school relations under Biff Poggi with the Charlotte 49ers. Emery has also been the defensive line coach at Presbyterian College, and was the head coach at Western New England University in Massachusetts for 13 years. He led Western New England, an NCAA Division III school, to three straight conference titles and the most wins in school history (86-49). Emery was named coach of the year five times while there and was a two-time New England Football Writers D2/D3 coach of the year.

New Charlotte Catholic football coach Keith Emery with some of his new players Charlotte Catholic