North Myrtle Beach Times Serving our Community and the Grand Strand for over 50 years
By John Smithson
The North Myrtle Beach Chiefs football team concluded their spring practices last Thursday morning with their Blue-Gold scrimmage under their “new” coach Perry Woolbright.
Woolbright was hired to replace coach Greg Hill who retired after the 2025 season. Woolbright returned to coach the Chiefs after a stint as coach at NMB from 2010 to 2014. His last coaching job was at Clover High School.
The Blue-Gold scrimmage was the first public showing of the Chiefs team and began with the Chiefs players gathering on the field at The Hank, going through a team huddle with Woolbright and then doing their usual series of warmup exercises.
After another huddle with their coach the blue and gold teams began a series of plays from different yard markers with assistant coaches watching and commenting on the play of the offensive and defensive teams.
Both teams scored a touchdown during the ninety-minute scrimmage, and the kicking special teams made one field goal and extra points without defensive pressure. Woolbright watched his team from the sidelines or walked onto the field to give instructions to his players.
The scrimmage ended with a water break and then the team huddled on one knee while Woolbright made comments about the scrimmage and outlined what was next when the team started summer conditioning in June.
As Woolbright walked off the field I asked about his take on the morning’s scrimmage. “It went good. The kids made some mistakes but overall played well. It’s been a good spring for us. We’ve had twelve practices trying to get our base on both sides of the ball. Our philosophy and our schemes-we got a lot of that done.
“Getting the base is what we needed and the first building block going into the summer and fall. I felt like we had a really good spring. On June 8th we will start our summer conditioning program to get us in shape and continue our lifting program while progressing to the X’s and O’s on both sides of the ball.
“You want the spring scrimmage to give the players a game-type feel for moving the ball back and forth. That’s what it’s about. You run the plays and you can’t win every play, but you run the next play to get better. I thought they did a great job of doing that,” Woolbright concluded.
