VYPE: Where did you get your start coaching and where did you originally graduate from?
Goss: I started coaching at Muskogee Public Schools, my first job was teaching middle school Math and Science and coaching basketball, golf and football. I graduated high school from Hilldale, I have a bachelor’s degree from OU and a master’s degree from Southeastern.
VYPE: What is the message to the athletes at Keys under your guidance and leadership?
Goss: We want to compete in everything we do, our school mission statement states that “students strive to achieve excellence” and that is what we want in athletics as well. Keys is unique in that there is no town of Keys, and the school is the community and we always want to make the community proud.
VYPE: Do you have a coaching/teaching mentor? Someone you have looked up to or call on for advice?
Goss: Both of my parents are teachers and my Dad still coaches and teaches for me at Keys so I would have to say that my Dad was my biggest mentor. I have been so lucky to work for and with so many great people during my stops at Muskogee, Haskell, and Edmond North that I have a great base of mentors and colleagues I can always lean on when needed.
VYPE: Let me throw a few fun questions at you so everyone can get to know you a little better. Where is your favorite place for lunch or dinner if you’re eating out?
Goss: Lunch Favs: Keys HS Meatloaf, My Place BBQ, Hamlin’s; Dinner: Outback Steakhouse, My Mom’s Fried Potatoes.
VYPE: Do you have any hobbies?
Goss: I enjoy traveling, spending time with my family, and golf.
VYPE: Favorite sports team from the college or pro ranks?
Goss: New York Yankees Baseball, Thunder Basketball, OU Sooners College
VYPE: Your favorite sports movie?
Goss: Hoosiers
VYPE: First concert you attended?
Goss: Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn
VYPE: Have you ever visited another country? If so, where?
Goss: Italy; we visited Rome, Florence, Venice and Pompeii.
VYPE: Tell me what you have come to love most about Keys, your athletes and where is the future of the program headed?
Goss: Keys has a great faculty and our students are the best part of my job. We have experienced great success on and off the field/courts and the future is bright for KHS Athletics.
VYPE: Who gets a big shoutout from AD Goss?
Goss: My family has always been super supportive of me as a coach and now as an administrator. I want to shout out to my wife (Erin) and my daughter (Allie) for sharing me with all the places I have worked. My parents, my sister, my brother-in-law, and my nephew have always been with me every step of my career as well.
