River Bluff Hires New Teacher / Coaches!!
At the regularly scheduled School Board Meeting for Lexington County School District One on Tuesday, February 19, 2013, the board approved the hire of several teacher/coaches for the 2013–2014 school year at River Bluff High School. River Bluff will open to students who are in grades 9–12 in August 2013.
Phil Savitz — Men’s Head Soccer Coach and Physical Education Teacher
Phil Savitz was approved as River Bluff’s Men’s Head Soccer Coach.
Coach Savitz has 36 years of teaching and coaching experience and 33 as Physical Education Teacher and Men’s Head Soccer Coach at Irmo High School. Over the past 33 years as Men’s Head Soccer Coach at Irmo High School, Coach Savitz has amassed the most wins of a soccer coach in the history of the sport in South Carolina with 617 wins. His teams have won numerous regional championships and a state record 13 State Championships. His teams have appeared in the state finals 22 times. Soccer players under his leadership have been named State Player of the Year 14 times and numerous athletes have gone on to have successful collegiate careers.
Savitz has been honored as Coach of the Year at the regional, state, and national levels on numerous occasions. In 2012, he was inducted into the South Carolina Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
USA Today and NSCAA have ranked his teams nationally many times, including three times in the top five. Twice his teams won four consecutive state championships from 1987–1990 and 1995–1998, an honor held only by Coach Savitz’s teams in 4A.
He has coached both the North and the South All-Star Teams and served as Co-Head Coach of the South Carolina All Stars in “The Clash of the Carolinas All Star Game.”
Academically, Savitz’s teams have received the NSCAA Team Academic award for outstanding achievement in the classroom numerous times. This award is based on the overall team grade point average.
A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Savitz holds certification to teach Physical Education. He served as a graduate assistant at the University of South Carolina for two years prior to his teaching and coaching career at Irmo High School.
Henry “Hank” Deer — Women’s Head Soccer Coach and Biology Teacher
Henry “Hank” Deer was approved as the Women’s Head Soccer Coach. Coach Deer has 24 years of teaching and coaching experience and is currently a Biology Teacher and assistant men’s soccer coach at South Aiken High School. Coach Deer brings with him numerous years of teaching science and physical education and coaching experience with both men’s and women’s soccer teams in several South Carolina schools.
Prior to South Aiken, Deer served as assistant coach with the USC Aiken women’s soccer program for four years.
Deer joined the USC Aiken women’s soccer program after coaching the North Augusta High School women’s varsity soccer team from 2005–2008. Deer guided North Augusta to new heights during his four seasons with the program. He led North Augusta to a 44-30 record overall, collecting a winning season in each of his four seasons. The Augusta Chronicle took notice of his work by naming him the 2007 South Carolina Girls Coach of the Year while also receiving the Region 4 Coach of the Year honor.
Deer has been working in the school systems of South Carolina since 1989 serving as track, football and soccer coach.
As an assistant football coach, he was a part of two State Championship teams at Silver Bluff High School in 2000 and 2001 and was honored in 2001 as The Aiken Standard Track Coach of the Year. Coach Deer will also coach football for River Bluff on the defensive staff.
Deer played college soccer at Lander University, graduating in 1987 with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Physical Education. He obtained his Master’s of Science in Sports Management from the United States Sports Academy in 2000.
Deer currently teaches Biology at South Aiken High School.
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