Football notebook: GHSA considers spring game; Swaney retires

There also are proposals before the executive committee to adopt the same contact limits for spring practice and summer camps as currently exist for preseason practice and to limit summer contact camps to three starting this summer.

Marion County coach retires

Mike Swaney, who led Marion County of west Georgia to its first state championship in football, announced his retirement this week. Swaney coached football for 31 seasons and never applied to be a head coach until the Marion County job opened in 2010. Until then, Marion had never won more than seven games against a full region schedule dating to the 1970s, when the school was part of Tri-County High. Swaney’s first team was 10-2. Over six seasons, Swaney’s teams were 65-10 and won the Class A public-school championship in 2013.

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