Mike Cochran graduated from Fyffe High School and the University of Alabama. He coached girl’s basketball at Fyffe for 28 years and became DeKalb County’s all-time winningest basketball coach with a record of 627-226. His teams won seven state championships, including four straight from 1994-1997. During his tenure his teams won sixteen DeKalb County championships, including eight straight from 1994-2001, fourteen Area championships, and seven Sand Mountain titles. His teams won 302 times during the decade of the 90’s, which was an average of thirty wins a year.