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Central high school has hired Regi Trotter as the Indians new head football coach.

Trotter spent last season as an assistant coach at CHS, but he was an assistant coach at Missouri Western for 16 seasons.

Trotter, who played at MWSU from 1995-1998, worked as an assistant coach from 1999-2002. He then spent two years at Cortland State University in New York and one season at the University of Texas-El Paso.

Trotter returned to Missouri Western in 2005 and coached the defensive backs until 2016. He was also the Griffons’ defensive coordinator for seven years during that time.

Trotter will be the fourth head coach at Central in four years. Andy Ball, who went 4-7 in 2017, left after one season to become the offensive coordinator at Missouri S&T. Phil Pitts spent just one year at Central in 2016 before taking the defensive coordinator position at Lincoln University. Jeff Wallace was the Indians head coach for six years prior to Pitts.