Former Western Alamance coach Snuffer joins High Point Christian staff

Jeff Snuffer’s next stop keeps him in the same football orbit, but in a different role. After retiring as Western Alamance’s head coach, he has joined High Point Christian’s staff as receivers coach and will also work with linebackers and special teams while taking on a teaching job in physical education and weight lifting.

The move ends Snuffer’s run as Western Alamance’s head coach after 16 seasons and 34 years total with the program, but it does not end his coaching career. He remained at Western as a physical fitness instructor through the end of January before moving to High Point Christian, and he said he considered opportunities in Virginia and West Virginia before choosing to stay close to home in Whitsett.

Snuffer leaves Western with a 140-59-1 record, five outright conference championships and one shared title. His teams built one of the most stable stretches in Alamance County football, where Western had only two head coaches over a 34-season span before Drew Hambright was hired on Feb. 12, 2026, to replace him. That continuity mattered for the program’s players and for the county’s opponents, who spent years preparing for Western teams shaped by the same coaching voice.

His influence at Western stretched well beyond his head-coaching years. As an assistant and offensive coordinator, Snuffer helped guide four straight state final appearances, including the 2007 state championship. As head coach, his teams posted at least four 11-win seasons, including a 14-1 mark in 2017, and they went 9-1 in the pandemic-reduced spring 2021 season before reaching the Class 3-A state semifinals.

High Point Christian gives Snuffer a different kind of assignment, but one with championship expectations already attached. The Cougars won the NCISAA Division II 11-man state title on Nov. 21, 2025, by defeating Asheville School, and they enter the new season as the reigning champion. Snuffer said he was drawn to the talent in the program, and his arrival adds an experienced hand to a staff led by Ryan Rocha.

The hire also reflects how coaching talent continues to circulate across the Triad and Alamance County. Snuffer reconnected with Sam Beasley, who coached on Western’s staff more than two decades ago and later worked in a variety of roles at High Point Christian, helping open the door to the move. For Western Alamance, it means one of the county’s defining football figures is no longer running the sideline, but he is still shaping players in the same regional landscape that made his career.