UK Athletics
Read more
MarkPerry
- title Senior Offensive Analyst/Director of High School Relations
- Former Kentucky quarterback who joined the UK football staff in 2019 as a senior offensive analyst/director of high school relations.
- Since graduating from UK, has totaled 20 years of coaching/administration at the college and high school levels.
- Returned to Lexington after three months at West Virginia under head coach Neal Brown, and former UK teammate, as the director of football administration.
- Also worked at Troy under Brown as the director of football operations in 2018.
- Prior to Troy, had a successful head coaching stint at Lexington Catholic High School in Lexington, Kentucky from 2014-17.
- Named District Coach of the Year on three occasions and the Kentucky Football Coaches Association 3A Coach of the Year in 2016.
- Led the Knights to the Kentucky 3A semifinals in his first season at Lexington Catholic in 2014.
- Followed that with a state championship game appearance in 2015.
- Lexington Catholic advanced to the regional finals in his final two seasons.
- Lexington Catholic capped a 14-year head coaching career in the state of Kentucky in which he earned nine district coach of the year awards.
- Before Lexington Catholic, coached at Central Hardin High School (2011-13) and Washington County High School (2004-10).
- Prior to entering the high school ranks, spent a year and a half at Baylor (2003-04) where he served as the assistant director of operations, assistant strength coach and as a defensive graduate assistant.
- Began his coaching career at his alma mater, Kentucky, as a student coach and eventually a graduate assistant under head coach Guy Morriss.
- Played quarterback at Kentucky from 1997-00 under head coach Hal Mumme and assistants Mike Leach and Tony Franklin.
- Graduated from Kentucky with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and health promotion in 2001 and received his master’s degree in educational leadership studies from Kentucky in 2007.
- Married to the former Elizabeth Mitchell of Prospect, Kentucky, and the couple have three children, Beau, Mary-Claire and Brooks.