All Star Team Alumni Report
All Star Team Alum
Cherokee County’s
COTY BLANCHARD
T
he naming of the KFC Pigskin Roundup All-Star Team has become a football
tradition in East Alabama. The All-Star Team spotlights the best football players
at each position in the TV 24 viewing area. Well over 200 former players are now
All-Star Team alums, with many of those players having gone on to play college and
even professional sports.
One of these great former players is
former Cherokee County High School
quarterback Coty Blanchard. Blanchard
led CCHS to their only state football
title in 2009, winning the Class 4A
Championship at Bryant-Denny
Stadium in Tuscaloosa in a thrilling
last second 31-27 win over Jackson.
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Blanchard was a two-time Pigskin
Roundup All-Star at quarterback
in both 2008 and 2009. His senior
season he completed 68% of his passes
for 2,964 yards and 35 TDs and ran
for 1,161 yards and 20 more TDs.
Coty went on to become a two-sport
start in both football and baseball
at Jacksonville State, and to play pro
baseball with the Tampa Bay Rays
organization. After baseball, Blanchard
began coaching both sports back
home at Cherokee County. This season
Blanchard will move to Gadsden City to
become part of Bart Sessions’ new staff
with the Titans.
Pigskin Roundup caught up with one
of our most famous All-Star Team
alums over the summer as he began the
next step of his coaching career with
Gadsden City.