Matros to serve as Arkadelphia Rotary guest speaker, March 21, 2014

The Arkadelphia Rotary Club will meet Friday, March 21, 2014, at Western Sizzlin, 106 WP Malone Drive, for its weekly meeting. Mr. Brant Matros has been invited to serve as guest speaker and will provide an update on the AHS Baseball Program. Rotarians and guests are invited to attend. For more information on the guest speaker, please read his brief biography below. 

BRANT MATROS is currently in his 7th season as head baseball coach at Arkadelphia High School. He is also the wide receivers coach for the Badger football team and has served as Offensive Coordinator in 2010 and Co-Offensive Coordinator in 2011. He also teaches junior high Social Studies at Goza Middle School. Prior to accepting the position of Head Baseball Coach, Brant served at Ouachita Baptist University as an Outreach Coordinator for Upward Bound, a college preparatory program for first generation college students. He and his wife of 21 years have resided in Arkadelphia for all of those 21 years. They have 2 sons, John Franklin a senior who will attend Ouachita Baptist University in the fall to play baseball, and Brandon, a sophomore baseball and football player. Both John Franklin and Brandon are proud products of Arkadelphia Public Schools and Badger Athletics.

Brant Matros earned his B.A. degree in History and Political Science (he also so received his Secondary Teacher certification and High School Coaching Endorsement). He has completed 40+ hrs toward an M.S.E. in Secondary School Counseling at Henderson State University. Brant is a member of the Arkansas Football Coaches Association, the Arkansas Baseball Coaches Association and the American Baseball Coaches Association.

In his tenure, the Badger Baseball team has won over 100 games and been 20 game winners 4 years. They have four consecutive State Tournament appearances. They have one Conference Championship in 2011, in route to a State Semi-Finals appearance followed by a quarter-final appearance in 2012. They have a Regional Tournament Championship in 2013, in route to the school’s first State Championship also in 2013. The Badgers have 3 former players playing college baseball. Garrett Rucker at the University of Arkansas and at Ouachita Baptist University Will Wallace and Craig Daniell. They also have 3 current seniors committed to play college baseball next season at Ouachita Baptist University, John Franklin Matros, Austin White, and Jakahari Howell.  season as Head Baseball coach at Arkadelphia High School.