Allen County-Scottsville have named Joshua Rios as the second head in program history for the boys’ soccer team.

Rios replaces Josue Ramirez, who guided the program for the first four years.

“I played for four years at Butler County High School and graduated in 2006,” Rios said in a press release. “When my class graduated, the Butler County program went downhill and they eventually lost their program for five years. I didn’t want to see that happen here. That’s why I was interested in this program.”

Rios spent the past three years coaching and developing players in the Southern Kentucky Soccer League (SKY) in Bowling Green.

“I never thought I would be in high school but I heard about your story and it’s relatable,” Rios said. “I’ve only applied one other place but I pulled out of that to focus on this. I’m ready to put everything I have got into this program and I ask the same of you.”

Meeting with the team, Rios was very honest and forthcoming with his words coming on observations from last year.

Rios inherits a program that has had limited success since the first varsity match in 2020. ACS is 6-56 in the first four years, including 1-16 last year – scoring only 18 goals the entire season.

“If we lose, we lose,” Rios said in . “I’m fine with that. But 12-0 and 10-0 scores, we can’t have, especially when you are building a program. The community backs a team that’s winning and trying and that what I want to have here.”

AC-S athletic director Brad Hood said in a press release that he liked the fact that Rios is willing to make a commitment to the work that will be needed to reconstruct a program from the foundation.

“He has a plan to work this program from the ground up,” Hood said. “He played at a program at Butler County that was a lot like what we are. He has coached for several years. My first priority was to have someone here that loves the sport. He has a vision to build something. He is ready to get to work.”