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From now through kickoff at USA Football's 2018 National Conference at Pro Bowl, we will take a look at some of the notable speakers and sessions on the docket for one of the country’s largest gatherings of high school football coaches.

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Name: Rick Jones

Session, date, time: Building a Program from the Ground Up, 2 to 2:45 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26

2018 National Conference website: https://nationalconference.usafootball.com

His background: Jones has 39 years of coaching experience, both at high school and collegiate levels. His overall coaching record is 295-71 and he has won seven state championships in his career, including the Arkansas 6A state title in 2017. He is a 14-time coach of the year and was inducted into the Oklahoma High School Coaches Hall of Fame in 2013. In 2016, he was awarded Positive Coaching Alliance’s National Double Goal Coaching Award and in the following year he received the United States Marine Corp Semper Fidelis Coaching Award.

Follow Coach Jones on Twitter: @GWFBcoach

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