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Lots of New Faces Will Lead the High Country Grizzlies Into the 2019 Season

For the third time in three seasons, the High Country Grizzlies will have a new head coach on the sidelines for their season opener.

Jeff Hunt will take over for last year’s head coach Scott Meserve who decided to resign from the position in the offseason. The Grizzlies finished 2-6 in Meserve’s lone season as head coach.

In the first year of the team’s existence in 2017, Josh Resignalo was the head coach and saw the Grizzlies finish the year with a 3-7 record.

Hunt comes to Boone after serving as an assistant coach previously with the San Antonio Talons in the Arena Football League (AFL) and as an assistant with the River City Raiders and the St.