TCPS Football Mourns Loss of Coach

The TCPS football team is mourning the loss of one of their own.

Sad news out of tupelo this morning t-c-p-s head football coach shaune holiday announcing on twitter that assitant football and track coach rob barnes has died due to covid- 19 barnes was well known in the tupelo area for training young athletes for over 20 years, specifically working on speed barnes had been battling covid-19 for two weeks before succumbing to the virus...he was 65 years old tcps head football coach shaune holiday talked about coach barnes' legacy..

"rob was a father figure.

He was a motivator.

He was a mentor.

Coach rob was so much more than a coach for me and for these young men out here.

A lot of these kids haven't really dealt with loss before.

Then to lose someone who meant so much to you like coach rob, who you saw everyday at practice and you did different things with on the weekend during football season, it's been a really tough day.

But the guys knew that coach rob would want them to keep going so that's been the mentality for the day."

A candlelight vigil will be held in barnes honor friday at 8 pm at robins field in tupelo