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Administration STEPHEN ALLEN PRINCIPAL

Stephen Allen is beginning his 10th year as Principal at East Coweta High School, but he is no stranger to the Indian Reservation. From 1997 to 2005, he taught special education at ECHS before serving as an assistant principal at Smokey Road Middle School from 2005 to 2007. He then spent seven years (2007–2014) as an assistant principal and Athletic Director at Newnan High School. Mr. Allen returned to ECHS in the 2014-2015 school year as an assistant principal.

He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Morehead State University in Kentucky, a Master’s Degree in Administration and Supervision, and a Certification in Special Education from the University of West Georgia. He also completed an Ed.S. in Administration and Supervision at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee. Mr. Allen and his wife Kelli, a special education teacher at Poplar Road Elementary, have two children: Kison, who graduated from ECHS in 2017, and Taber, a 2010 graduate of ECHS. LEE HEABERLIN

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

Lee Heaberlin is beginning his third year as Athletic Director, his seventh year as an Assistant Principal at East Coweta High School, and 17th year in public education. Mr. Heaberlin previously taught and coached at West Chatham Middle School, H.V. Jenkins High School, Sandy Creek High School, and East Coweta High School before becoming an administrator. Mr. Heaberlin is a 2003 East Coweta Honor

Graduate lettering in both football and baseball. Mr. Heaberlin graduated from Georgia Southern University in 2008 with a B.S. in Special Education, earned his Master’s Degree from the University of West Georgia in Special Education, and his ED.S. in Curriculum and Instruction from Lagrange College. He is married to Hannah Heaberlin, also an ECHS graduate, and they have two daughters Paisley (13) and Bailey (9).