Jesse “Bubba” Coleman was inducted into the Davie County High Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.   Jessee is a vice president at Sheffield Financial and has worked there for 27 years.  Sheffield is a nationwide leader in financing outdoor power equipment such as landscaping equipment, jet skis, zero turn mowers and the like.

 

Jesse and his wife Heather have two children; a son, Braddock, who is a senior at Davie and a daughter, Gracyn, who is a freshman at Davie.  Both children are good athletes; Braddock plays football and basketball but unfortunately suffered a torn ACL in the first football game last fall.   Gracyn plays soccer, basketball and the piano.

 

Jesse grew up in Cooleemee and his house was near the swimming pool, baseball and football field and basketball courts.  The athletic fields were his “babysitter” when school was out… he began his athletic career by playing t-ball at age 5 and that got the ball rolling. He got the nickname “bubba” because his twin sister couldn’t pronounce “brother.”

Cooleemee and Davie County overall has produced many fine athletes over the years.  Jesse played quarterback and cornerback on the football team.  On the basketball court he was a point guard known for his slick ball-handling and ability to anticipate the opponents’ next move, making it almost impossible for Jesse’s shots to be blocked.  He excelled on the baseball diamond as well.

 

When asked about the most memorable events in his athletic career, Jesse named several.  During his senior year, Davie’s football team knocked off perennial Greensboro powerhouses Grimsley and Dudley.  Later that year, Davie was a 7-seed in the conference basketball tournament but upset second-seeded Winston-Salem’s R.J. Reynolds High.

 

Jesse had even more success on the baseball field.  The War Eagles won their conference championship in his junior and senior years and made it to the final four in the 1993 state championship.

 

After graduation from Davie High, Jesse attended UNC- Chapel Hill where he played on the JV basketball team for his first two years.  Jesse continued playing recreation league sports after graduation and still plays golf “sparingly,” as he put it.  He devotes most of his spare time to his children and coached Braddock’s travel basketball team – Braddock is a point guard like dad -from the third through the eighth grade.  He is the definition of a good dad.