Breaking News! Potomac Falls Goes Out of State for New Football Coach: Mike Gims

(Apr. 13, 2010) - Potomac Falls High School has gone out of state for its new varsity football coach by naming former Trinity International college head coach Mike Gims to lead the Panther program.

Gims spent two years at the NAIA school (1-21 record) in Deerfield, Ill. after a successful run at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy in Ohio where he spent 11 years, seven as an assistant and then four as the head coach from 2004-07.

He is a Cincinnati native where he went to Lakota High School and he played wide receiver at the University of Cincinnati where he majored in education and health.

The veteran coach with 21 years experience began his career at Landmark Christian where has was an assistant for four years and then head coach for two. Then he served as the offensive coordinator at Hughes High School for two years.

At that point he moved to Cincinnati Hills to help get the program off the ground and he served as offensive coordinator for seven years before becoming head coach. In his 11 years at CHCA the team posted only one losing record and was state runner-up in 2005. Gims has a reputation for pass-oriented offenses and the development of quarterbacks.

Gims and his wife Kathy have two daughters.