Camden County hires big-name South Georgia football coach
Camden County announced Tuesday that it has hired Tucker Pruitt as football coach.
Pruitt was Appling County’s coach last season and won a region title and reached the Class 2A playoffs second round.
He spent the previous eight seasons at alma mater Fitzgerald, where he compiled a 82-27 record and won a 2021 Class 2A championship.
Pruitt will take the place of Jon Lindsey, a former Camden assistant who resigned unexpectedly at the end of December, less than seven weeks on the job.
Lindsey was hired to replace Travis Roland, a former coach in Florida whose Camden teams were 7-4 and 6-4. Roland succeeded Jeff Herron, who retired in 2023 after reaching the Class 7A semifinals.
Lindsey had been an assistant under Herron, who built Camden into a state power during his first head coaching stint there from 2000 to 2012.
Pruitt is the son of Robby Pruitt, a former Georgia coach with more than 400 career victories.
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Todd Holcomb covers high school sports across the state. He rejoined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2025 and has worked with the AJC in varying capacities since 1985. He is a co-founder and editor of Georgia High School Football Daily.
