Thursday night, the Union County board approved Rob Stowe as the new head coach for the Panthers. He takes over after Michael Perry left for the Flowery Branch opening.
Stowe has over two decades of coaching experience, and has head coaching stops at Gilmer and Wilcox County. At Gilmer from 2003-2006, he went 7-33 across four seasons.
He then had other non head coaching stops that included Rabun County, where he was a part of the first playoff run (2012) in over a decade and first quarterfinals run (2015) since 1998. Stowe then went to Wilcox County, taking over a team that was 5-6 and immediately taking the Patriots to nine wins and a second round appearance.
From 2019-2024, Stowe has a robust 50-24 mark with a pair of region titles (2021, 2022), a Semifinals (2021), Quarterfinals (2022), three second rounds (2019, 2020, 2024), and a first round (2023). He had Wilcox in the playoffs in each of his six seasons there.
The Panthers are currently on a 7-year playoff streak, and showed plenty of promise in 2024 despite a 4-win total with a young roster. Wilcox will seek to eventually lead Union to its first-ever region title and past the second round for the first time.
