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Article: Burdette named top prep coach: ; Parkersburg coach led Big Reds to Class AAA grid title
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- April 23, 2000
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PARKERSBURG - Marshall Burdette, who guided Parkersburg High
School's football team to a 14-0 season and the Class AAA state
championship, has been named West Virginia High School Coach of the
Year. In one of the closest votes in the history of the West
Virginia Sports Writers Association, Burdette edged out last year's
winner, Alan Fiddler, who led Moorefield High School to its fourth
straight Class A state football title.
Burdette became the head coach at Parkersburg in 1991, inheriting
a program that hadn't reached the state playoffs since 1985. After
failing to make the playoffs in his first three seasons at the Big
Red helm, Parkersburg has been a playoff qualifier in each of ...