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Led by Dean Monroe, our Interim Director of Athletics Culture, Gibbons Athletics continues to grow and expand the scope of our athletic leadership and student-athlete development programs.

Dean is a nationally certified athletics administrator (CMAA) who brings with him more than 25 years experience in secondary school athletics administration. Dean previously coached numerous sports at Gibbons, including varsity football and the boys' and girls' varsity basketball teams, and also served Gibbons as Athletic Director from 1990 through 2012. He returned to Gibbons in 2016, after serving four years as Athletic Director at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh.

Dean's focus is helping student-athletes and coaches grow as leaders, and ensuring that students' participation in athletics focuses on living out the school's mission in the classroom, on the playing field, and in the community. Dean will also increase efforts to connect alumni with Gibbons through athletics, and will work in partnership with the Advancement Department and Alumni Coordinator. Those efforts include developing new programs and enhancing existing ones that connect alumni with faculty, coaches and peers.

Chris Morland has led the Strength & Conditioning program at Cardinal Gibbons High School since 2014, where he also teaches Health & Physical Education. With a MS in Human Performance from the University of Tennessee, Chris is an advocate for the important role of high school teachers and coaches in promoting physical literacy for all students.

Morland has transformed the Gibbons' Strength program into a national model for high school athletic programs, earning the Strength of America Award, a designation reserved for the top 1% of programs in the country. Morland is responsible for redesigning the Gibbons' Strength & Conditioning curriculum, successfully piloting a 9th grade functional movement program as an alternative to standard PE, as well as an Honors option for advanced Strength students interested in pursuing Strength & Conditioning in college. Morland has also led a mentoring program for newly certified strength coaches, providing young professionals an opportunity to gain practical experience working directly with Cardinal Gibbons' sport coaches and students.

Prior to joining Cardinal Gibbons, Chris Morland served as a Strength & Conditioning Coach for 9 years at North Carolina State University.

Tonya Holmes was recently appointed Athletic Director at Cardinal Gibbons. Holmes is a nationally certified athletic administrator (CAA) and holds her Master’s in Sport Management along with 8 years of experience in athletic administration. Tonya will be taking on the day-to-day operational duties of the athletic department including facility management and will be the point person for all athletic personnel.

Prior to Cardinal Gibbons to she was the Associate Athletic Director at Saint Mary’s School in Raleigh and Operations Manager at UNC Chapel Hill-Housing. She has over 10+ year of coaching experience at the high school varsity level in 3 sports: volleyball, track & field, and basketball. Tonya joined Triangle Volleyball Club in 2011 and has served as an assistant coach at the 14s, 16s, 17s, and 18s age groups. Most recently, she helped to lead 18 Blue to qualify for USAV nationals in the 2018 season.

Athletic Director

In her role as Athletic Director, Tonya oversees the day-to-day operations of our program, serving as the primary point-of-contact for athletic personnel and parents. Athletic program responsibilities include staffing, program supervision, event management, facility management, scheduling, NCHSAA compliance and student eligibility.

David Mills serves as the lead Athletic Trainer and Director of Sports Medicine for Cardinal Gibbons. Mills has established Cardinal Gibbons as an early adopter and leading advocate for a number of high school sport safety and health initiatives over a 22 year tenure. Mills is responsible for training Gibbons' staff in the use of CPR/AED life-saving techniques, screening of athletes, Return to Play protocols, cognitive baseline testing for head injury evaluation, as well as day-to-day injury care, prevention and rehabilitation.

In addition, Mills is also the Director of Sports Medicine at Shaw University, where he oversees the athletic training and athletic trainer student staff, while serving as the University and NCAA Drug testing site coordinator. He currently owns a sports medicine and athletic training consultant firm that is located in the Raleigh-Durham area.

Mills received his Associate of Science in Biology and Biology Sciences from Lees-McRae College in 1985, following a Bachelor of Science in Pre-Medicine and Pre-Medical Studies from North Carolina State University in 1989.

He obtained his masters from Liberty University in 2016.

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Patricia transitioned from technology to athletics in 2021. In her new role, Patricia will support athletic operations by managing rosters, travel logistics, eligibility, and NCHSAA compliance. Patricia will also assist with communication and partner with team parent volunteers.

Athletic Operations Coordinator

Roster management, event management and support, travel logistics, student-athlete eligibility, FinalForms support, onboarding of coaches, and management of officials. Patricia will also assist with communication and partner with team parent volunteers.

Coach Wright grew up in Maitland, FL. where he attended Winter Park High School (Winter Park, FL). While at Winter Park he lettered in 4 varsity sports (Football, Baseball, Track & Field, Weightlifting) and served as a captain his senior season, earning All-Conference, All-County and All-Area honors in both Football and Weightlifting. After graduation, Coach Wright attended the University of Central Florida (UCF) where he earned an athletic scholarship, started for four years as a defensive back, served as a team captain and graduated with a degree in Business Administration. Since then, he has gone on to earn a doctoral degree, while professionally he has worked as a teacher and coach focusing in the areas of Leadership, Football and Strength & Conditioning.

Coach Wright is in his 15th year as a high school head coach, having spent the last 9 at Cardinal Gibbons where his varsity teams have compiled 86 wins and his program 191 total wins over that same period. He and his staff have won 4 Varsity conference titles, 7 Junior Varsity conference titles, gone undefeated twice with the Freshman football team and four times been honored with the conference coach of the year award.

Coach Wright's mission at CGHS is to "develop godly young men" who demonstrate the biblical values of love, sacrifice, service, accountability, community and joy. He is married to Rachel-Ruth Wright, they have three daughters and reside in Raleigh, NC.

Coach Drew is originally from Durham, NC where he was team captain in both football and track at Jordan High School. He attended Campbell University, where he was a four-year letter winner in football and earned his B.S. in Exercise and Sports Science in 2016. He earned an M.S. in Kinesiology from Georgia Southern University in 2019.

After his playing career at Campbell University, he served as a volunteer graduate assistant working with the defensive backs during his final spring semester. Shortly after, he became the defensive backs coach here at Cardinal Gibbons for the 2016 season. The following year, he was promoted to Defensive Coordinator and has been in that role ever since. Most recently, he's added the title of Assistant Head Coach in January of 2019.

He currently resides in Raleigh, NC.

Coach Liedy is originally from Rockville Centre, NY where he was a captain and 4 year varsity starter in football and baseball at South Side High School. He attended The Ohio State University and received a B.S. in Education in 2004. He received an M.S. in Sport Leadership from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007.

From 2007-2011, Liedy was the offensive line coach, director of football operations, adjunct professor, and assistant intramurals director at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA. Prior to that, he was a football intern at the University of Richmond, receivers coach at Pace University, and an assistant coach at both Olentangy High School in Lewis Center, OH, and South Side High School in Rockville Centre, NY

He resides in Apex, NC, with his wife Rachalle, a former 5th grade teacher at Immaculata Catholic School in Durham, NC, and their son Luke.