Video Interview - South County's Gerry Pannoni

South County High School in Lorton, VA has been open since 2005. Gerry Pannoni, once an assistant at Patriot District rival West Springfield, has been the Head Football Coach of the Stallions since 2011. All the program has done under his reign is win.

In Pannoni's first season, the Stallions re-grouped from a 0-3 start to win 11 straight games and reach the Group AAA Division 5 State Championship game, where they defeated by Phoebus. They went just 6-6 the next year, but South County comes into the 2016 campaign having won 32 of the last 38 contests they have played.

Despite graduating some key members from the 2015 team that began 13-0 before falling to eventual State Champion Westfield in the 6A-North Region Championship, South County has plenty of talented players to lean on in their quest for the program's first state title this year. They open the season ranked #3 in the VirginiaPreps.com Preseason 6A Top Ten.

Coach Pannoni chatted with us following his team's scrimmage with Western Branch, unofficially a 44-0 win, to discuss some of the key contributors and look ahead to the upcoming season. You can watch that Video Interview embedded above as well as at the link below...

Watch Video Interview with South County's Gerry Pannoni

Matthew Hatfield has covered football and basketball since 2004 for VirginiaPreps.com, part of the Rivals.com Network, and is a staff writer for Tar Heel Illustrated. Check out Hatfield’s Twitter page for more sports related updates, and you can also read his work in the Suffolk News Herald. To contact Matthew, please e-mail hatfieldsports2k4@yahoo.com, and don’t forget to listen to him every Saturday at 10 AM on ESPN Radio 94.1, plus watch him on the Cox 11 Sports Report.