Markel Harrison
Football Coach
Football
All-conference wide receiver at UVA-Wise.
Markel started football at age five in Northern Virginia, earning Fairfax County Player of the Year in his last youth season with Vienna Youth Inc. He was a four-sport varsity athlete at Marshall High School.
After a prep year at Midwestern Prep, he played cornerback and wide receiver at UVA-Wise on scholarship, earning all-conference honors in the South Atlantic Conference, and played in the FAF Senior Bowl and the Dream Bowl in front of NFL and CFL scouts.
“Being an athlete is not all about your performance on the field. You must be strong mentally as well, and I want to give these athletes the tools for anything they face.”