Jim Levine

LeVine attended Duke University after high school before earning a degree in education from Western Carolina University. After a brief stint at Lee Edwards High School in Asheville, he returned to the Swannanoa Valley as a driver’s education instructor and coach at Owen, less than a decade after the Black Mountain and Swannanoa high schools consolidated to form it. 

He was promoted to head football coach in the early 1970s and his impact was immediate, according to Kenny Ford, who played for LeVine and would later go on to coach the Warhorse program for 29 years.