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After Undefeated Season, A&T Football Coach Broadway Retires

North Carolina A&T coach Rod Broadway watches during the first half of an NCAA college football game against North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

A football coach who made history at North Carolina A&T University is retiring.

Rod Broadway is going out on a high note. The Aggies finished the season undefeated and won the 2017 Historically Black Colleges and Universities national championship in December. Now Broadway, who has coached the team for the last seven seasons, is stepping down.

The Aggies undefeated season was a first for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, and they're also the first Division 1-double-A black college to go undefeated and untied.

The win over Grambling State marked the second time Broadway had led the Aggies to the HBCU national championship after having also accomplished the feat in 2015.

Overall, Broadway is ending a 15-year head-coaching career that saw him win 127 games against 45 losses, which included a stop at North Carolina Central University.

Sam Washington has been promoted to head coach. Washington has served as assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and secondary coach.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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