The Alabama Football Coaches Association announced its three Lifetime Achievement Award winners for 2024 on Monday.

The honorees are nominated by AFCA members and selected by a committee, and the ALFCA Board of Directors approves them.

“These awards are given annually to coaches who have showed exemplary achievement as a football coach in the state of Alabama over the course of their career,” the association wrote in a release. “In addition to coaching success, consideration is given to the nominees off the field works, leadership in the local community and on a state level as well.”

Among this year’s winners are former UAB, Jacksonville State and Prattville head coach Bill Clark, former Murphy coach Larry Henderson and former Susan Moore and Arab coach Larry Patterson.

Clark, an Anniston native and Piedmont High graduate, started as a head coach at Prattville, a position he served from 1999-2007.

During his tenure, the program went 106-11 and won the Class 6A state championship in 2006 and 2007. He also helped lead the program to seven straight Class 6A, Region 4 titles and went 48-2 in region play during his tenure.

He went on to serve as defensive coordinator before taking the head coaching job at Jacksonville State in 2013. In his lone season, he led the Gamecocks to an 11-4 record.

Clark most recently spent six seasons as UAB’s head football coach, finishing with a 49-26 record and two Conference USA championships. He was named Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year in 2018 after leading the Blazers to an 11-3 record and a CUSA title.

Henderson, a Mississippi State alum, guided Murphy to its first state championship during his 11-season stint with the program from 1982 to 1992.

With Henderson as head coach, Murphy posted an 83-41 record across 11 seasons, highlighted by a 14-0 run in 1983 that saw the team clinch the Class 7A championship with a 7-0 win over Austin.

He guided his 1989 and 1990 teams to back-to-back region titles, with both groups advancing to the Class 6A state title game. He won four region titles with the program and went 14-4 in the playoffs with Murphy.

Henderson also served on the AHSAA Coaches Hall of Fame Committee and was director of the Mobile Coaches Clinic for 12 years.

Patterson, a Cleveland High alum, helped lead Susan Moore to a strong run of success in his time with the program, going 166-77-3 across 22 seasons with the Bulldogs.

His teams appeared in the playoffs 12 times during his tenure, appearing in the 1970 state championship game one season after the program’s first playoff appearance. The Bulldogs won seven region titles under his leadership and went 46-15 in region play.

Patterson went on to coach at Arab for six seasons, posting a 41-22 record in that span with the program. His last three teams during his stint all appeared in the playoffs, with his 1993 team winning the Class 6A, Region 14 title.

He is a member of the Marshall County and Blount County coaches hall of fames and served as president of the AHSAA Coaches Association.