Brent was introduced by Centerville High School Principal Jack Durnbaugh, seen below, and above in the Bulletin, as one of our greeters.

 

 

Jack said Brent graduated from Centerville High School where he was a four-year varsity letter winner for the Elks from 1999-2002. He was a 5-year walk-on, one-year letter winner wide receiver for the Ohio State University football team that included three Big Ten championships, three bowl wins and two national championship appearances.

Jack said Brent taught math and coached football at Dublin Coffman in Columbus for five years before joining the teaching and coaching staff at Centerville in 2014. He served as wide receiver coach from 2014-2016 before accepting the head coaching job in April, 2017.

Ullery, his wife Sahar, and their son Beckett live in Centerville, Jack said. 

 

Brent gave credit for the many mentors he had while growing up and said he hopes to be a Bob Gregg coach. Having played football under Bob Gregg at CHS, Gregg became his role model and created a father-son relationship. He also gave credit to football coach Jim Tressel at OSU and to a Dublin quarterback receiver. 

Brent said his wife graduated from CHS in 2006, though they didn't meet at CHS. They met in Columbus while at OSU and they now have a son who isn't quite three months old. He said he was lucky this Spring, as in two weeks time he got a son, a job, and finished his master's degree.

He showed a description of the culture he hopes to foster with his football program. 

 

 

 Brent said he hopes to use the militaristic culture as an example in the game of football. By going through hard work together he believes the players can form a bond. If it's tough every day and you have your buddies around you, you will push to get better, he said. High expectations will get the players to push to continually get better, he said. He said he doesn't want to see the coaches or players getting complacent. Physical toughness is developed by pushing to higher levels and demands. Making boys into men and boys into fathers that people can look up to is one of his goals, he said. He said he does not believe in winning at all costs, but that if you build people to be mentally and physically tough they will become great representatives. He tells parents that decisions that are made will be made in the best interest "of your son and team." He says "coaches can be role models for your son. I interview all my coaches myself," he said. He said he interviewed one young man for a quarterback coach job for two hours. It later came back to him that the young man had told someone that he had not asked at all about the quarterback fundamentals. His answer was that "i wanted to get a great father, a great coach, to get a role model."

He said Centerville is the only school in Dayton using helmets that show the speed of impact when hit. It does not tell if someone has a concussion, he said, just the speed of impact and number of hits. This information is transmitted back to the coaches so they can keep an eye on any player showing a number of high impact hits, he said. It will be up to the coaches to pull a player from the field, he said. He said Bill's Donut Shop was one of the main donating entities for the helmet devices. 

 

The meeting was closed with the reciting of the Rotary Four-Way Test.

 

Added note: 

It was mentioned in a past Bulletin that Jill Wallace, a Yankee Trace employee who helps with all the needs of the club, is a shoe person, but that wasn't obvious from the photo, so here are two that are more obvious, with a bit of Jill's small shoe collection and her real shoes, always coordinated with her colorful outfits. She always has a smile on her face and laughter in her heart. Way to go, Jill.