With the summer coming to a close and a new school year starting, Goodpasture welcomes a new batch of high school teachers and coaches.
One of the new additions to Goodpasture is Hannah Youngers, the new Dual Enrollment history teacher. She transferred to Goodpasture after teaching American History and Western Civilization at Nossi Art College for a year and a half.
“Goodpasture has such a good Christian environment,” Ms. Youngers said. “Being able to share my faith in the classroom is something I’ve always wanted to do.”
In her free-time she embroiders, listens to audiobooks, and spends time with her family. This year she is looking forward to seeing, what she calls, the “lightbulb moment.”
“It’s that moment where something clicks, that light bulb moment,” Ms. Youngers said. “It appears in their essays or in class and it’s just like, you get it!”
Alongside Ms. Youngers, Meghan Zerigue joins Goodpasture as a new US History teacher and assistant girls basketball coach.
After teaching at a public school in Baton Rogue, Louisiana, Mrs. Zeringue moved to Nashville this July.
“I just want to teach and be a part of such a good community,” Mrs. Zeringue said. “My goal here is to be a Christian leader and set a good example for the people that I’m around.”
When she’s not teaching, Mrs. Zeringue loves spending time with her dog and husband, and she loves being active.
“I like doing anything active: hiking, running, lifting, you name it,” Mrs. Zeringue said.
New World History teacher and assistant wrestling coach, Josh Dodd also joins Goodpasture.
“I’ve worked in just about every kind of school, and where we’re at now in life with a small child, Goodpasture just seemed like a good option for what we were wanting to get out of education,” Coach Dodd said. “And then I wanted to be a part of it.”
Before coming to Goodpasture, he worked as a social studies teacher and a coach at Hunters Lane High School.
“I had several teachers and coaches who really stepped up and helped me when I was in high school,” Coach Dodd said. “I wanted to be that resource for someone.”
Another new addition to the Goodpasture high school faculty is Andrew Klunk. Mr. Klunk joined Goodpasture last year in the Learning Lab, but this is his first year full-time.
“I really enjoy the Christian oriented part of Goodpasture,” Mr. Klunk said. “I appreciate a lot of the kids here, it’s a good group of people.”
Before coming to Goodpasture, he worked as an individual and group tutor.
“My main goal this year is to help each of the Learning Lab kids grow spiritually and academically.”
Another new addition to Goodpasture’s high school faculty is Ian Clark. Alongside Mr. Klunk, he helps out in the Learning Lab and is the new assistant wrestling coach.
“My goals here are to help students in the learning lab to their fullest potential, while molding champions in wrestling on and off the mat,” Coach Clark said.
He was teaching social studies and coaching in Georgia before relocating to Nashville.
“I was blessed to end up at Goodpasture,” Coach Clark said.
Outside of teaching and coaching, Coach Clark enjoys doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and spending time with his dogs.
Goodpasture also welcomed a new assistant football coach and computer science teacher, Roger Haynes.
He began teaching in 1985 and, after teaching at some of the largest high schools across Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, he landed at Goodpasture.
“I came to Goodpasture to help return the football team to a winning program again,” Coach Haynes said.
He was inspired to become a coach by his own football coach from high school.
“He gave me my first coaching job just out of college and I gave him his last coaching job, as our offensive coordinator, when I took my first head coaching job at the second largest high school in Alabama,” Coach Haynes said.
This year, he hopes to be a positive influence on students and players and a productive member of the coaching staff.
Lastly, Holden Mobley joins Goodpasture as the new head coach of the boys basketball team and health teacher.
“Growing up, Goodpasture’s basketball program was always very respected in my community with a long history of success,” Coach Mobley said. “So I had the opportunity to lead it, I took it.”
Before joining Goodpasture, he was an attorney who coached on the side at Ensworth High School.
“I realized that when I woke up in the morning, coaching was what I wanted to do,” Coach Mobley said.
Besides coaching, Coach Mobley is very interested in theater, film, and music. His older brother, who was involved in theater, was a mentor for him growing up and inspired his love for the arts.
“I just enjoy helping young people and serving young people and there are still teachers that I have lifelong relationships with,” Coach Mobley said. “I prefer being transformational and not transactional, and to me, coaching is a great opportunity to build relationships in that way.”
