Zack Blume has been hired by Trussville City Schools to serve as a HTHS Math teacher and Varsity Head Bowling coach.
Blume has served as a Math teacher at Southside-Gadsden High School since 2014. In 2015, he started the Bowling program at Southside-Gadsden. His Girls bowling team won the AHSAA State Championship in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2024. They also won their region in each of his nine seasons as coach and won the AHSAA North Regional Tournament each year from 2017-2020.
His Boys team had a state semifinal finish in 2023 while qualifying for the state tournament in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as well winning the region four times.
Blume is a USBC Bronze Certified Bowling Coach and was named NFHS Bowling Coach of the Year in 2017, 2018, and 2020. He has also served on the AHSAA Bowling Coaches Commitee since 2018. In addition, Coach Blume has served as a director on the Etowah County chapter of the USBC board of directors since 2021 as the youth director.
Coach Blume stated, “I am so excited to be coming to Hewitt-Trussville and taking over such a great program. It is very bittersweet to leave Southside after 10 years, and they will have outstanding teams coming back, but this is the right move for me and my family. Following Coach Abney won’t be easy, but I’m ready to get to know the kids and get to work. Hewitt has an incredible tradition in Bowling going all the way back to the 1970s and I can’t wait to get started adding to that tradition and bring home a few more blue maps!”
Hewitt-Trussville High School Principal Aaron King stated, “When I learned Coach Abney would be retiring I knew we would have our work cut out for us in finding a replacement. I truly believe we have the perfect fit for Hewitt-Trussville High School in Coach Blume. Not only has he coached Bowling at a high level, he is also an exceptionally skilled math teacher. I look forward to cheering our student-athlete bowlers on to many more wins under Coach Blume’s leadership!”
Trussville City Schools Athletics Director Lance Walker added, “We are excited to welcome Coach Blume to Trussville. He is a championship coach that is well respected around our state. I am excited about his vision to continue building the sport of Bowling in Trussville. I look forward to supporting Coach Blume and our Bowling student-athletes.”
Tommy Abney, who served as the HT Bowling Coach since 2017, stated “Zac is the most respected coach in the state. Since I took over, Zac has done as much as possible to help me grow and help the sport of bowling grow. It is an honor to see Zac take over and I am excited to see where he takes the program.”
Blume graduated from Jacksonville State University in 2009 with a degree in Secondary Education/Mathematics. He later added a Master’s degree in Instructional Leaderhip from JSU in 2015.
Blume is married to Kristina Blume has five children: Spencer (14), Emma (11), Harlow (11), Amelia “Millie” (6), and Skyler (1).
