Saint Ignatius head football and track coach Chuck Kyle '69 has been named to USA Football’s "Football and Wellness Committee" to further promote best practices for America’s youth and amateur football community.
In the summer of 2009, Coach Kyle guided the United States Under-19 National Team to a Gold Medal in the International Federation of American Football Junior World Championships at Canton's Fawcett Stadium. Chuck will enter the 2011 season, his 29th as the Wildcats' head football coach, with an overall record of 277-65-1.
Those 277 victories include an Ohio-best 10 state championships, including a state-record five in a row in Division I, and three national titles (1989, 1993 and 1995).
Coach Kyle joins Cleveland Browns Strength and Conditioning Coach Kent Johnston as Northeast Ohio representatives on the committee. USA Football members – youth football coaches, players and league commissioners – reside in all 50 states.
USA Football, the sport’s national governing body in the United States, assembled the committee of 26 experts spanning football coaching, player health and other areas to help shape USA Football’s development resources and membership offerings, and to foster positive youth and amateur football experiences. The committee’s expertise is shared through usafootball.com, USA Football Magazine and the more than 80 annual USA Football training events conducted across the country and attended by youth coaches, players and league commissioners.
“I’ve had the honor of knowing Coach Kyle for three years now and I can’t say enough about how much our staff and others in the sport’s international community respect him as a coach and as a person – he’s a very important part of the USA Football family," said USA Football Executive Director Scott Hallenbeck in a news release presented to the media on Wednesday. "We’re proud to continue to bring his knowledge and integrity to America’s grassroots football community.”
The Football and Wellness Committee includes experts in the fields of equipment fitting, sports medicine, first aid, team sports insurance, neurology, orthopedics, exercise science, nutrition and athlete hydration. The committee roster represents the American Red Cross, the Andrews Institute, Gatorade Sports Science Institute, the National Center for Sport Safety and several universities.
THE CORNER CATCHES UP WITH JACOB CORRIGAN.
Jake Corrigan '10, one of the young men who helped fuel the development of Saint Ignatius' Student Broadcasting Network and Student Sports Information Department, continues to span the Athens, Ohio and Ohio University globes in his wide world of sports.
Jake informed the corner that he recently received a job at a radio station - Power 105.5 WXTQ and 970 WATH - to broadcast Athens High School football weekly on 970 AM as the play by play voice. The crafty Corrigan continues to intern with Ohio Bobcats Media Relations and says he will be taking over Bobcats Cross Country next fall as the SID for the team.
It doesn't stop there for the tireless Corrigan, as he will be the PA voice of Ohio Bobcats Baseball and is heading up a group that is planning to attend the Olympics in 2012 as independent journalists and cover the games.
As always, we wish Jake all of the best now and in the future.
- Eddie Dwyer.