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 Rockcastle County Rockets Football Team The Rockcastle County High School Rockets Football team was established in 1972 when 3 town schools of Mount Vernon,Brodhead,and Livingston consolidated into Rockcastle County. The only school out of the 3 had a football team before 1972 was Mount Vernon which started in the fall of 1957, the head coach was Larry Travis which coached the team from 1957 to 1971, Mount Vernon had a undefeated season at the first year playing 11-man football in 1963 going 9-0 winning the Bluegrass Conference Title. After the consolidation of Rockcastle County,successfully in their second year of existence which was 1973 had a winning record by posting a 5-4-1 record, the tie came scoreless against Russell County.

The next season, Rockcastle posted another winning record this time going 7-4. Rockcastle County would end up having winning seasons in 1977 (8-2), 1981 (6-4), 1982 (9-3), and 1983 (7-5) which that year Rockcastle was crowned the sub-district champions and got into the playoffs the very first time and lost in the first round of the Class AA football playoffs to powerhouse Danville. Before the hiring of current new Harlan County High School head coach Tom Larkey in 1985, Rockcastle County had already seen 3 head coaches since 1972; Glenn Polley (1972-1977), Larry Woods (1978-1982), and Charlie Hansel (1983-1984). Principal Cleston Saylor hired Tom Larkey that was head coach at Laurel County High School and Cawood High School. Coach Larkey would spend the next 23 seasons at Rockcastle earning 8 district championships (1991,1992,1995,1997,2000,2001,2002,and 2006),4 regional championships (2000,2001,2002,2005), 4 regional runner-ups (1991,1992,1999,2006), 21 straight winning seasons from 1986 to 2006 and 17 straight trips to the Kentucky High School football playoffs for Class AA (1991-1998), Class AAA (1999-2006), and Class AAAA (2007) including two straight trips to the Class AAA State Championships at Louisville in 2001 and 2002.

Coach Tom Larkey left Rockcastle County after the 2007 season posting 212 career victories and 67 losses as the 4th head coach in Rockcastle County football's history to be the head coach at the newly Harlan County High School at the start of the 2008 season. Scott Parkey, which was the starting quarterback for Rockcastle County in the seasons of 1990 (9-2), and 1991 (11-2) teams was named the 5th head coach for Rockcastle County before the start of the 2008 season. In his first year, Parkey achieved a winning season reaching an 8-4 record as a first year tenure since Charlie Hansel back in 1983. Rockcastle County recently achieved it's 20th berth to the Kentucky High School Football Playoffs in 2009 of it's program history since starting in 1972. The team represents Rockcastle County High School for the athletic department which is located in Mount Vernon, Kentucky. It's home bowl games is the "Renfro Valley Jamboree Bowl" which was started in 1991 and recently started in 2006 the "Project UNITE Bowl". During the 2008 season, the community recently established the "Rockcastle County Football Hall-of-Fame" and is held annually in mid-October, there has been 2 ceremonies since.

Winning Seasons=(28): 1973,1974,1977,1981,1982,1983,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2008

Playoff Appearances=(20) year(class): 1983(AA),1991(AA),1992(AA),1993(AA),1994(AA),1995(AA),1996(AA),1997(AA),1998(AA),1999(AAA),2000(AAA),2001(AAA),2002(AAA),2003(AAA),2004(AAA),2005(AAA),2006(AAA),2007(AAAA),2008(AAAA),2009(AAAA)

State Playoffs First Round=(4): 1983(AA),1996(AA),1997(AA),1998(AA) State Playoffs Second Round=(7): 1993(AA),1994(AA),1995(AA),2003(AAA),2004(AAA),2007(AAAA),2008(AAAA),2009(AAAA) State Quarter-Finals (Regional Finals)=(8): 1991(AA),1992(AA),1999(AAA),2000(AAA),2001(AAA),2002(AAA),2005(AAA),2006(AAA) State Semi-Finals=(4): 2000(AAA),2001(AAA),2002(AAA),2005(AAA) State Finals=(2): 2001(AAA),2002(AAA)

Rockcastle County is currently ranked 7th as one of the top winning Kentucky High School Football programs since 1990. Rockcastle County has also went 23 consecutive seasons without a losing record from 1986 to 2008.