HEAD VARSITY COACH AARON CLARK

Coach Clark enters his tenth year as the Lions Head Coach. He is a 1989 graduate of Leon High, where he was a three year starter and a member of the 1987 final four team. He was chosen as MVP, All Big Bend, and All-State in 1989.

He attended Lake City Community College on a baseball scholarship from 1989-1991. During his two years at LCCC, he earned the team honors of Rookie of the Year ('90), Best Defensive Player ('90,'91), Most Outstanding Offensive Player ('91), and Most Valuable Player ('91). He was selected All Conference and All-State in 1990 and 1991. In 1991 he was also selected as the Mid-Florida Conference Player of the Year and to the Junior College All Southeast Regional Team. He was selected and started in all four (fall and spring) JUCO All-Star Teams during his two years. After being recruited by over 30 Division I schools, Coach Clark chose to accept a scholarship from Florida State and play in his hometown. A shoulder injury cut short his playing days at Florida State.

Coach Clarks begins his 15th season coaching at Leon. His duties have included coaching the Junior Varsity and assisting on the Varsity prior to becoming Head Coach. Coach Clark was the Assistant Head Coach on the Lion's 1998 State Championship Team. He has participated in five final four appearances as a player and coach at Leon, including two runner-ups, and one state championship. He has also served as the head of Leon's summer league teams and is the current director of Leon's summer baseball camp. He has worked with the Cleveland Indians and the Kansas City Royals and an associate scout. Coach Clark has also been apart and has enjoyed coaching with Team Florida.

During the previous 9 years, with the guidance of Coach Clark at the helm, the baseball program has been to the state playoffs twice, won a District Championship, two JV City Championships, dominated on the 9th grade level and signed 17 players to baseball scholarships. Coach Clark enjoys competing in marathons and triathlons in his spare time.

Coach Clark has a B.S. Degree in Social Science from FSU and teaches in the Social Studies department at Leon. He is married to Christine Clark and they are the proud parents of Courtney and Abby Clark.
Ryan Pennington, Varsity Assistant Coach

Ryan Pennington begins his 4th season at Leon High School as an Assistant Varsity Baseball Coach.


Coach Pennington also served as an assistant coach of the Leesburg Lightning in the Florida Collegiate Summer League in 2007 and 2008.  In the 2007 inaugural season, the Lightning won the FCSL championship. 


Pennington played his collegiate baseball at Flagler College from 2002-2005 where he obtained a BA Degree in Sports Management. Upon graduation, he moved to Tallahassee to serve his internship with the Florida Sports Foundation and earned his teaching certification.  He currently teaches students in the credit retrieval program at Leon High School.


Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, Pennington attended Bishop Kenny High School.  In his junior year, Bishop Kenny advanced to the final game of the FHSAA 4A Championship Baseball Game at Legends Field in Tampa, Florida.    

He and his wife Emily were recently married in December 2008. 









Robby Read, Varsity Assistant Coach
 Robby Read joins the Leon Lions for a second year as the Pitching Coach and Varsity Assistant. He is a 1999 graduate of Leon High School and a four-year starter on the baseball team. The hard-throwing all-around athlete played several positions before becoming a pitcher and led the Lions to a state championship in 1998. Upon graduation in 1999, Coach Read joined the Florida State Seminoles.

A three-year starter, he logged several memorable outings, including complete game one-hitters versus Jacksonville University two years in a row. Coach Read secured a place on the All-Tournament Team following his lights out performance in the 2000 Regional Championship game against the University of Central Florida, in which he logged his third complete game one-hitter. The stellar outing was followed up by a win versus Miami in the Super Regional Championship to send Florida State to the College World Series. Coach Read pitched in legendary Rosenblatt Stadium in the semifinal game versus the University of Southern California. Following his freshman year, Coach Read played summer ball with the Torrington Twisters, where he faced the U.S.A. team and struck out ten batters in five innings. Notable opponents included Mark Texiera, Ryan Howard and Mark Prior. He spent his summers in various other advanced leagues, including the famed Cape Cod League in 2001. The hard worker was also named FSU baseball's Top Conditioned Athlete each of his three years at Florida State.  

Coach Read was selected in the 7th round of the 2002 draft by the Philadelphia Phillies. A top 30 prospect for the club, he was invited to play in the fall league for evaluation by Phillies' coaching staff. Coach Read also played independent baseball with the Frontier and Northern Leagues. In his fourth professional season he pitched a complete game shutout to send his team to the league playoffs and on to the championship. He spent most of his career between A and AA leagues, even logging several innings in AAA. After five seasons of professional baseball, his career ended abruptly with a shoulder injury in August 2005.

Coach Read is a graduate of Florida State University and a world history teacher at Leon High School. He was married in January 2008 to fellow Florida State alumni Emily Read.
Dwayne Moore, Junior Varsity Head Coach

Coach Dwayne Moore enters his fifth year as coach at Leon and his first as the Head Junior Varsity Coach. An 1989 graduate of Leon High, Coach Moore lettered in basketball and baseball his junior and senior years, where he was a two year starter in both sports and a member of the 1988 District Runner-up Baseball team. In 1988, He won the batting award (.455 average) and led the team in stolen bases (45). As an outfielder, He was chosen as a member of the All-Big Bend team in 1988 and 1989 and ended his career with a .432 average and a remarkable 80 stolen bases in 82 attempts. He also holds the record for most stolen bases in a game at Leon (10 vs. Brooks County, GA). After high school, Coach Moore played collegiately at FAMU, where he led the Rattlers in steals (48) and on base percentage (.754) in 1990. He continues to work with the FAMU baseball program throughout the year.

Coach Moore started at Leon as an assistant coach with the Freshman team in 2004. In 2005, He left the program to become the head coach of FAMU Developmental Research School, where the program had a 12-8 record in it's first year of baseball in over ten years. He returned to the program a year later to become the Head Coach of the Freshman team.

As a player, he has the distinct honor of being the only black player in the history of the program to lead the team in batting (1988). As a coach, he is the only black coach to lead any team in the program's history.

Personally, Coach Moore is the proud parent of three boys, DeAndre (17), Malik (13), and Dwan (6).









Logan Hurst, Junior Varsity Assistant Coach

Coach Hurst graduated in 1999 where he played for Lafayette High School for five years. In 2004 he graduated from FSU with a degree in Education and is now teaching in his fourth year at Canopy Oaks Elementary. He is in his fifth year working with the JV team.
Ryan Solberger, Freshman Head Coach
Jason Vogt, Freshman Assistant Coach

Jason begins his fourth season coaching with the Leon baseball program and teaches in the ESE Dept. at Leon.  Jason is originally from Maryland where he was a three year starter on the baseball team.
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