Ricky Turner

Coach Turner has been the Athletic Director of Blessed Trinity Catholic High School since the school opened in 2000. During his eleven seasons as the Head Football Coach, Coach Turner led the Titans to three state playoff appearances. In 2005, Coach Turner took his football team to its first ever region championship and was named Region 5-AAA Coach of the Year. In that same year, Coach Turner was named the North Fulton Touchdown Club Coach of the Year. In 2008, Coach Turner was again named Coach of the Year by the Roswell Beacon Newspaper. Coach Turner, the founding Athletic Director at BT, was named the 2007-2008 Athletic Director of the Year for AAA classification. 

Turner led the school when it was honored with the 2003-2004 Georgia Athletic Directors Association Director’s Cup for the best overall sports program in the state. In 2004, 2007, 2008, 2014, and 2016 he led the Titans to the girl’s Director’s Cup for the best overall girls program and the 2006 Cooperative Spirit Sportsmanship Award for Region 5-AAA. The school’s athletic program was once again awarded the Director’s Cup in 2009.  During the 2010-11 school year, Ricky Turner was named Athletic Director of the Year for the State of Georgia. In 2018, Blessed Trinity won the Director’s Cup for the boys program.  Blessed Trinity also won the Sportsmanship award in 2019 for Region 7-AAAA.  This past year, Coach Turner was also named Region 7-AAAA Athletic Director of the Year as well as AAAA Athletic Director of the Year by the GADA.  In 2022 Blessed Trinity won the Directors Cup for the top athletic program in the AAAAA Classification.

Ricky’s wife, Lynn, is also a graduate of the University of Georgia and received her high school diploma from Marist High School.  Ricky and Lynn have four sons, Ricky Jr., Justin, and twins Matthew and Christopher.  Their precious daughter, Jessica, is watching over the Titans from Heaven.