Bob McIntyre replaces Jeff Besong who resigned after the season. McIntyre comes to Quaker Valley from Pittsburgh Central Catholic, where he was an assistant this past season. In 2008, he was the head coach at Keokuk High in Iowa. From 2003-07 he was an assistant at Pittsburgh Central Catholic.
The past 10 years the Quakers have had [...]
McKeesport hired Jim Ward as its new football coach. Ward will succeed George Smith, who retired after 28 seasons. Smith was highly successful, with a 197-107-5 record, including two WPIAL titles and two PIAA titles.Ward was Yough’s head coach for only one season, and also was South Allegheny’s head coach from 2000-02. After that, he [...]
New Brighton hired former coach Joe Greco as its head coach. He was the Lions head coach from 1995-2006, compiling a 68-52 record.
He has been an assistant coach at Westminster College in New Wilmington for the past three seasons.
POY: Mike Caputo, West Allegheny – It would be one thing to give Caputo the Player of the Year Award for his exploits out of the backfield. Caputo finished 2009 running for over 2,600 yards and 34 touchdowns. But he turned in quite the all-around effort on the football field, and was easily the Indians’ [...]
COY: Al Wolski, State College Area – When you’re the first team to ever do something, it certainly warrants consideration. When you do multiple things for the first time in the same season, it puts you over the top. Wolski guided State College to its second straight District 6/8/9/10 “AAAA” subregional championship in as many [...]
CO-POY: Deontae Howard, Clairton – It’s the second straight year that WesternPAFootball.net has named a Clairton player for its player of the year honor. Howard ran for 2,234 yards and scored more than 30 touchdowns. He ran for 150 yards and a touchdown to help Clairton stifle Bishop McCort in winning the school’s first PIAA [...]
CO-POY: David Miller, Greensburg Central Catholic – You could have confused Greensburg Central Catholic’s offense as the “lather, rinse, repeat” offense. Sure, quarterback Trent Hurley threw for over 1,700 yards this season, but David Miller was the main guy in the skill player department that made the Centurions offense click. Miller ran for 2,535 yards [...]
Dan Smith, Bedford Area
Most teams would be done and prepping for the start of the next season after beginning a football season with a 1-5 record. But Dan Smith and Bedford Area were just getting warmed up. The Bison won six of their next seven games after that rough start and made it to [...]
