Mountain View High School is mourning the loss of head football coach Rob Kellogg, who passed away unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon. 

“Coach Kellogg was a genuine, wise and quiet leader in our building,” Mountain View principal Keith Chaney said. “He loved his players and coaches and would do anything for them. He would do absolutely anything that we asked of him for Mountain View High School. He will be incredibly missed.”

Kellogg, a native of Statesboro and a former state championship baseball coach at Brookwood School, played baseball at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton before heading back to his hometown to study at Georgia Southern University.

He spent 15 years as a high school coach in GISA football, and his first head coaching position was at Thomas Jefferson in 1989. He spent four seasons at Flint River Academy from 1992 to 1995, then was at Brookwood School from 1998 to 1999, then again in 2002. As Brookwood School’s baseball coach, Kellogg won a state title with the Warriors the year prior to his departure to Fullington Academy.

Kellogg spent four consecutive years, from 2003 to 2006, as football coach at Fullington Academy. His 2007 Fullington baseball team also won another GISA state title.

His first GHSA job was as an assistant at North Hall and then he was offensive coordinator at Gilmer before he was part of Nick Bach’s first coaching staff at Mountain View in 2015.

Kellogg coached at Mountain View since 2015, serving as offensive coordinator for three seasons before being promoted to head coach in February 2018. He led the Bears to the state playoffs each of his two seasons as head coach.

Kellogg, who was 58, had degrees in economics, history and education.

Kellogg, who suffered from diabetes, stepped on a nail last summer and had infection complications that kept him from coaching early in the season. He returned during the season and coached from the press box. The infection caused him issues and he spent much of 2020 in the hospital, but had returned home in recent weeks and was encouraged about a recovery.

He is survived by his wife Linda, their daughter Jessica and son-in-law Ryan, as well as a young granddaughter, Kailin.