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    Jeff Fisher is an expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.


   After anchoring and reporting on major sporting events from the Olympics to the World Series to the Super Bowl in a career spanning 37-years, Jeff turned to his passion of high school football with an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, which is part of High School Sports Entertainment LLC, a multi-media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.


   Jeff, who is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, currently is the host and producer of three radio shows: High School Football America – SoCal on KLAC AM 570 Fox Sports LA, plus High School Football America and the National High School Coaches Association Sports Hour that average over 80,000 downloads per show on the ArtistFirst Radio Network. 


   An award-winning journalist, who has worked as an on-air talent in television and radio, Jeff has been cited for his ability to tell high school sports stories in the style of one of his idols, Charles Kuralt.


   Fisher began High School Football America after writing 52 different blogs on high school football. He operated those blogs while also co-managing Blitz Group with his business partner Trish Hoffman. Blitz Group is an award-winning boutique media company that places experts in the highest levels of media like CNBC, the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Fisher was a TV sports anchor at Fox Sports Net for the Chicago, Bay Area and Ohio regions. While in the Windy City, Fisher reported on all Chicago professional and college teams, plus served as a pre, post and in-game host on Fox Sports Net's Emmy-award winning broadcasts for the Cubs and White Sox.


   Jeff also worked as a co-host and pit reporter on several different motorsports programs on Speed Channel and The Outdoor Channel. Before arriving in Chicago, Jeff was the Sports Director at WFMZ-TV in the Allentown/Philadelphia market. Fisher was the creator, executive producer and host of The Big Ticket. The weekly, 60-minute high school football wrap-up show won him the Associated Press Best Sportscast in Pennsylvania Award in 2000.Fisher is also the creator and host of more than a dozen half-hour sports specials featuring international superstars such as Mario Andretti and Larry Holmes.


   Fisher was also named Media Person of the Year in 1999 by the Colonial League and won the prestigious Sixth Man Award at Lehigh University.


   Jeff is an all-around sports fan, who grew-up in Easton, Pennsylvania. His fondest memory is watching his best friend Marty Nothstein win a gold medal in the 2000 Olympics in Australia and a silver medal in the 1996 games in Atlanta.

 

 

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5-16-13 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks spring high school football practice in California, Florida and Texas. Fisher's guests are Josh Wilson of FloridaHSFootball.com and Christopher Lyke of TexasHSFootball.com. For more info go to highschoolfootball.com.
5-02-13 Show Chandler High School head football coach Shaun Aguano joins host Jeff Fisher on this edition of High School Football America. Last weekend, the Chandler Wolves were the only high school program in America with three players drafted during the 2013 NFL Draft. Also on the show is Brett Cooper, director of the Blue-Grey High School Football All-American Classic that will be played in January 2014 in Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. For more info, go to highschoolfootball.com.
4-25-13 Show Show On this edition of America's premiere national high school football radio show, High School Football America host Jeff Fisher talks with former NFL running back Ricky Watters, who is the new head football coach at Oak Ridge High School in Orlando, Florida. Fisher also talks with Mike Moschetti, head football coach at La Mirada High School, south of Los Angeles. Moschetti's program is loaded with Division-1 talent and could be a power in SoCal this year. With this being NFL Draft Day, Fisher also spends time looking what high school football states have produced the most #1 picks since the draft began in 1936. For more info, go to www.highschoolfootball.com.
4-04-13 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Mark Soto, event organization of The Honor Bowl that will feature eight elite California high school football teams playing September 6th and 7th at Oceanside High School outside of San Diego. Fisher also talks about off-season weight training with Kris Hicks of Iron Core Athlete.
3-28-13 Show
Education is the theme of this edition of High School Football America as host Jeff Fisher talks about nutrition and social media when it comes to student-athletes. Fisher talks with Lubbock High School (Texas) head coach Jason Strunk and his assistant coach Neal Tull about the team's cutting-edge nutrition program for their players, then he discusses the Do's and Don'ts for student-athletes on social media with Kevin DeShazo of Fieldhouse Media. For more info, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.
2-28-13 Show
Jeff Fisher announces High School Football America's National Player of the Year and National Coach of the Year on this edition of the show that is broadcast from the 2013 Maxwell Football Club's 76th Annual National Awards Gala. Yulee High School's (Florida) Derrick Henry is HSFA's National Player of the Year after setting a new all-time national rushing record in 2013. J.T. Curtis, head coach of John Curtis in Louisiana, is HSFA's National Coach of the Year after leading the Patriots to a perfect season in 2012. John Curtis and Allen (Texas) were named co-national champs in 2012. Also on the show, Fisher talks with MaxPreps.com's Steve Spiewak about some great interstate high school football games in 2013. For more information, go to highschoolfootballamerica.com.
2-14-13 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Duncan Shackelford, head coach at Chugiak High School in Alaska about his school's Adopt-a-Helmet program that is seeking donations so his program can buy safer helmets for its players. Fisher then talks with Allen (Texas) punter Shane Tripucka about his decision to play college football at Texas A&M as a preferred walk-on. For more information, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.
2-07-13 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher goes deep into proposed legislation in Texas that would limit the amount of in-season, full-contact practices. First Fisher talks with the Texas State Representative Eddie Lucio III, who has introduced legislation that would limit high school and middle school football teams in Texas to one full-contact practice a week. Then to discuss the legislation from the coaches' point of view, Fisher then talks with Lubbock (Texas) High School head coach Jason Strunk, who also writes The Turnaround for High School Football America. During the second half of the show, Fisher talks with Orange County Register sportswriter Dan Albano about high school football's National Signing Day on February 6th from his Southern California perspective. The show closes with Tim Curran, co-founder of Webletes.com that helps student-athletes with free recruiting profiles.
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1-31-13 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with three of the top coaches in the country about a wide variety of topics. First Fisher talks with J.T. Curtis, head coach of John Curtis Christian School in Louisiana. Curtis, who is second on the all-time wins list for coaches in America with 520 victories, led his school to a "mythical" national championship this year, according to multiple media outlets. High School Football America honored John Curtis and Allen (Texas) as co-national champs in its final Top 25 National Poll. Curtis also talks about last week's decision by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association to split the state's private and public schools into separate championship categories beginning with the 2013 season. Fisher's second guest is Blake Feldt, the new head coach at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. Permian is best known for being the school that Buzz Bissinger wrote about in his award winning 1988 book entitled Friday Night Lights. Fisher's final guest is Art Walker, head coach at North Allegheny High School in western Pennsylvania. Walker, who is also the head coach of the Pennsylvania All-Stars in this June's Big 33 Football Classic, talks about winning two of the state's last three Class 4A football titles. Walker also gives his perspective on public vs. private. Walker also coached Pittsburgh Central Catholic to a Pennsylvania 4A title in 2004. For more information, please go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com
1-24-13 Show
High School Football America host Jeff Fisher takes a look at the 2012 Maxwell Football Club high school award winners on this edition of the show. Fisher talks with Bobby Ramsay, head coach at Yulee High School in Florida, about his running back Derrick Henry, who won the Maxwell Football Club's National Player of the Year Award. Henry shattered the nation's all-time rushing mark that had been held by Ken Hall of Sugar Land High School in Texas since the early 1950's. Fisher also talks with Archbishop Wood lineman Fran Walsh, winner of the Maxwell Football Club's Jim Henry Award. The Maxwell Football Club is a partner of High School Football America. Also on the show, Fisher talks with Lubbock High School (Texas) head coach Jason Strunk, who continues to write "The Turnaround" for High School Football America. Strunk, in his second year at the head of the program, led the Westerners to the Texas playoffs for the first time since the mid-70s.  For more information, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.
1-17-13 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, Jeff Fisher talks with former NFL Pro Bowl quarterback Mark Brunell, who is the new head coach at Episcopal School in Jacksonville, Florida. Also on the show, Fisher talks with USA Today's Jim Halley, who talks about the newspaper's 30th anniversary All-USA high school football team. For more information, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.
1-10-13 Show
Justin Alumbaugh has some big shoes to fill as he takes over the reigns of the De La Salle High School (California) football program from the legendary Bob Ladouceur. Alumbaugh, who is replacing Coach Ladouceur, who won 399 games and only lost 25 in 34 years, talks with High School Football America host Jeff Fisher on this edition of America's premiere high school football show. Also on the show, Fisher talks with Bobby Bentley, the newly named head coach at Byrnes High School (South Carolina). This will be Bentley's second stint as head coach of the Rebels. Fisher's final guest is Mark Wolpert of the Maxwell Football Club, who talks about the organization's New Jersey and Pennsylvania 2012 Mini Max Awards.
1-03-13 Show
High School Football America host Jeff Fisher begins 2013 with a look back at 2012 by talking about HSFA's final national Top 25. Fisher is then joined by Tom Westerberg, head coach of Allen High School (Texas). Allen and John Curtis (Louisiana) are High School Football America's co-national champs for 2012. Also on the show is former NFL player Mark McMillian, who had a big hand in shaping the rosters of the Semper Fi All-American Bowl game in Carson, California.
12-20-12 Show
On the edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with MaxPreps.com's Steve Spiewak about the upcoming Texas high school football championships, plus takes a look back at the best moments of the 2012 season.

12-13-12 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks about the upcoming championships in California, Florida, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Fisher's first guest is Corona Centennial (California) head coach Matt Logan, whose team faces national power De La Salle in the state's Open Division championship. Fisher then previews the Pennsylvania championships with help from Dave Mika of EasternPAFootball.com and WesternPAFootball.net  Fisher's third guest is Rim of the World HS (California) running back Jacob Taylor, who became the sixth running back in America to rush for 4,000 yards in a season. The show wraps-up with a flashback interview that Fisher and Trish Hoffman did with Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel in 2011 after he was named the National High School Coaches Association's National Player of the Year.

12-06-12 Show
Butch Goncharoff, head coach of Bellevue High School joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher to talk about his school's 5th straight Washington state high school football championship. Also on the show, Fisher is joined by Bob Hyland, head coach of St. Mary's Springs High School, who is Wisconsin's all-time winningest head football coach.

11-29-12 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher takes a look at all of the championship medals being handed-out around the country, plus he talks with Jason Strunk, head coach at Lubbock High School (Texas), who blogged all season about his school's drive to make the playoffs for the first time since the mid-70's in a series called The Turnaround. For more information, please go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.

11-15-12 Show
High School Football America host Jeff Fisher talks Kansas and Texas high school football on this edition of HSFA's national radio show. First Fisher talks with Joe McBride, head coach at Coppell High School (Texas) about his unbeaten Cowboys and how they have responded to the death earlier this year of two-way starter Jacob Logan. Then Fisher, who is also the host of High School Football America/SoCal on AM 570 Fox Sports LA, talks with Smith Center (Kansas) head coach Roger Barta, who announced his resignation last week after 35-years as the head man with the Redmen. Barta won 323 games and eight state titles with Smith Center. Fisher's third guest is Steve James, director of Head Games, a documentary film on sports concussions. James was also the director of the critically-acclaimed Hoop Dreams.

11-08-12 Show
With the regular season winding down this weekend in Florida, Jeff Fisher talks with Joshua Wilson of FlaHSFootball.com about the postseason that begins next weekend. Wilson looks at all eight of Florida's classifications. Fisher then is joined by Lubbock High School's Jason Strunk, who has been blogging all year for High School Football America about his journey to turnaround the west Texas program that, coming into this year, hadn't been the playoffs since the mid-70's. Last week, the Westerners clinched their first playoff berth in 37 years. Fisher's third guest is former UCLA quarterback Matt Stevens, who currently is a volunteer coach at Helix High School in Southern California. Stevens talks with Fisher about Rivals United for a Kure, a fundraiser raising money for underfunded cancer research that is centered on the UCLA/USC football rivalry and the upcoming release of a documentary on the intra-city rivalry called A City Divided. Fisher's final guest is Dick Tighe, head football coach at St. Edmond High School (Iowa), who two weeks ago became the 12th coach in American high school football history to win 400 games. Tighe, who has mainly coached in Iowa, just wrapped-up his 59th season as a head coach. For high school football news from around the country, please go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

11-01-12 Show
It's the next to the last week of the regular season and there are some big games across the country. None may be bigger than the Southern California game between El Toro (9-0) and Mission Viejo (9-0) for all of the marbles in the South Coast League that is considered among the Top 5 toughest high school football leagues in the country. On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with El Toro head coach Rob Frith about the showdown that features his team averaging over 47 points a game and Mission Viejo that's averaging over 51 points a game. Also on the show, Fisher looks at some of the other top games across the country, plus the latest High School Football America Top 25. For more information and scores from around the nation, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

10-25-12 Show
Ohio, Tennessee and Texas take centerstage on this edition of High School Football America. Host Jeff Fisher talks with Chuck Kyle, head coach at St. Ignatius in Ohio. Coach Kyle will be going after his 300th career win Saturday when his Wildcats, ranked #5 in the latest High School Football America Top 25, take-on arch-rival St. Edward in a battle of unbeatens. Fisher then talks with Greg Tepper of Dave Campbell's Texas Football about the last three weeks of the regular season in the Lone Star State. The show wraps-up with South Gibson High School (Tennessee) head coach Scott Stidham discussing his school's perfect 9-0 season in the school's second year of varsity action. For more information, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

10-18-12 Show
The 2012 high school football playoff season is upon us with veteran Indiana sportscaster Greg Rakestraw joining Jeff Fisher on High School Football America to discuss the upcoming playoffs in the Hoosier State. Indiana's postseason includes every team from 9-0 to 0-9. Also on the show is Lubbock High School head coach Jason Strunk, who talks about writing The Turnaround for High School Football America, which is a season-long look inside the west Texas program that is looking for its first winning season and playoff appearance since the mid-70's. Click here to read The Turnaround or go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.

10-11-12 Show
Columbine High School (Colorado) head coach Andy Lowry joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher to talk about his 200th career win. Lowry also talks about his 19 years at Columbine, which includes helping his community, school and players through the 1999 shooting tragedy at his school. Fisher also talks with former Northern Lehigh (Pennsylvania) head football coach Jim Tkach about Friday night's game between Northern Lehigh and Northwestern. The game has been dubbed the Bo and Brett Backyard Brawl as these two nearby communities come together to raise money and awareness for ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and children dealing with depression. Coach Tkach's son Bo committed suicide in 2007, while former Northwestern star Brett Snyder has been battling ALS over the last nine-years. To support the two organizations, please go to tackleals.org and botkach.com.

10-04-12 Show
High School Football America host Jeff Fisher looks ahead to two big games this weekend. Fisher is joined by Gateway High School head coach Terry Smith to talk about his team's western Pennsylvania showdown with North Allegheny, which is ranked #23 in the latest High School Football America Top 25. Then Bob Milloy, head coach at #21 Good Counsel (Maryland) talks with Fisher about his team's game Friday night against arch-rival DeMatha. The final guest on the show is Bill Jarvis, head coach at Cornerstone Christian School in Southern California. Jarvis talks about a traumatic brain injury suffered by his quarterback Dax McGregor two weeks ago during an 8-Man game. McGregor continues to improve, but his family needs help with medical expenses. You can donate by going to www.giveforward.com/daxmcgregorfund

9-27-12 Show
Marble Falls High School (Texas) head football coach Todd Dodge, who's know for building Southlake Carroll into a national power, was back in the national headlines last week after his quarterback Mike Richardson threw for a state-record 724 yards against Boerne Champion. Coach Dodge joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher on this edition of America's premiere high school football talk show to talk about Richardson's incredible game, plus his return to the high school game. From Arizona, Amy Arnold, the head coach at Mesa Prep stops in our huddle to talk about her 8-man program that is 5-0. Arnold, along with Natalie Randolph from Coolidge HS in Washington, DC, are the only two female head coaches in high school football. Also on the show, Fisher looks at High School Football America's new Top 25, which changed Monday and probably change a lot more in the coming weeks after top-ranked Santa Margarita lost its star quarterback Johnny Stanton to a torn ACL. Santa Margarita head coach Harry Welch talks with Fisher about how special the University of Nebraska recruit is and how much he'll be missed by his teammates. For more information, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

9-20-12 Show
We go a little sideways on this edition of High School Football America with a wide array of guests that cover Hollywood to the hometown of Nike to professional wrestling. The show kicks-off with host Jeff Fisher talking with Aloha High School (Oregon) head football coach Chris Casey talking about the incredible performance by his running back Thomas Tyner last Friday. Tyner, who has given his verbal commitment to the University of Oregon, rushed for 643 yards and 10 TDs. Tyner's total landed him third in the all-time national record book for rushing yards in a single-game. Then Trish Hoffman interviews Jonathan Bray as part of her Inspired segment that highlights professionals who have used high school sports as a springboard for a successful career outside of high school sports. Bray, who played football at Natick High School in Massachusetts, was awarded an LA Scenie for his portrayal of the character "Jack" in Sideways the Play. The show closes with Chris Nowinski, co-founder of the Sports Legacy Insitute. Nowinski, who played college football at Harvard and went on to a success career as a professional wrestler in the WWE, is shining a light on the problem with sports concussions through his book Head Games that has been made into a movie that is directed by Steve James of Hoop Dreams.

9-13-12 Show
This is High School Football America's 50th show on ArtistFirst.com. On this episode, High School Football America host, Jeff Fisher talks with Tim Fontenot, one of the founder members of the Tee Cotton Bowl in Ville Platte, Louisiana. The Tee Cotton Bowl features Ville Platte High School facing Sacred Heart High School in the only game that has been filmed by NFL Films and been blessed by Pope John Paul II. Also on this show, Fisher talks with Santa Margarita Catholic High School quarterback Johnny Stanton, who just passed Oakland Raider quarterback Carson Palmer as the school's all-time leader in total offense. Fisher ends the show with a chat with John C. Cotey of the Tampa Bay Times, who recaps John Curtis' (Louisiana) 33-3 win over Florida's defending 8A champ Plant. For more information, please go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

9-06-12 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, Jeff Fisher talks with Jason Strunk, head coach of Lubbock High School in Texas. Strunk is writing a daily blog for High School Football America that takes our readers inside his program, which hasn't had a winning season since the mid 70s and is currently on a 23-game losing streak. The season-long feature is called The Turnaround. Fisher then talks with authors Joe Drape and Drew Jubera about their new books. Drape latest offering is called Soldiers First, Duty, Honor, Country and Football at West Point. Jubera spent a year embedded at Valdosta High School in Georgia to write Must Win, a Season of Survival for a Town and its Team. Valdosta is America's winningest high school football program. The show closes with Shane Tripucka, one of the top punters in America. Tripucka plays for Allen High School in Texas. On the show Shane talks about last week's opening of his school's $60 million dollar stadium, plus the recruiting process for a punter. For more information, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

8-30-12 Show
How did the first big weekend of the 2012 high school football regular season shake-up MaxPreps.com's Top 25? Listen to this episode of High School Football America with host Jeff Fisher to find out. Fisher talks with MaxPreps' Steve Spiewak about the website's Xcellent 25. Also on the show, Fisher discusses last week's incredible varsity debut by Jake Browning of Folsom (California), who tied a national record with 10 touchdown passes. The show ends with Mike Watson, athletic director at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit, Michigan. Oxford is trying to raise approximately $300,000 to pay-off the bill on the cost of installing new turf on its football field. The story has gotten national attention because five families in Oxford pledged their homes as collateral for the cost of the field. To help the cause, you and go to www.oxfordboosters.com.

8-23-12 Show
Statewide previews of Florida and the Carolinas are front-and-center on this edition of High School Football America, the country's premiere national high school football radio talk show. Host Jeff Fisher talks with Joshua Wilson, owner and publisher of FloridaHSFootball.com about the 2012 high school football season in the Sunshine State. Fisher then moves up the coast to talk with Chris Hughes, founder of CarolinaPreps.com, for a preview of North and South Carolina high school football. The show concludes with Lubbock High School (Texas) head coach Jason Strunk, who is trying to rebuild the Westerners' football program that hasn't had a winning season since 1975. Strunk will write a weekly blog on www.highschoolfootballamerica.com that will take our readers inside Strunk's job as head football coach and athletic director. Lubbock is currently on a 22-game losing streak and this year, but Strunk is a high-energy individual who turned around Plant City program in Tampa, Florida.

8-16-12 Show
George Quarles, head coach of the highly successful Maryville High School football program, joins High School Football America's Jeff Fisher on this edition of the country's premiere national high school football talk show. Quarles has led Maryville to nine state titles since taking over in 1999. Fisher also continues with his 2012 statewide previews with veteran high school sports journalist Nate Olson talking Arkansas football and Dave Mika of EasternPAFootball.com and WesternPAFootball.net discussing high school football in Pennsylvania. For more info, please go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.

8-09-12 Show
High School Football America host Jeff Fisher is joined by Harry Welch, head coach of Santa Margarita High School (California) to talk about his team's lofty preseason national rankings. The Eagles are ranked #1 by Rivals, #2 by USA Today and #4 in MaxPreps' Early Contenders' Poll. The other two guests on the show are: Chris Doelle of Lone Star Gridiron, talking about the 2012 Texas high school football season and Mike Dyer of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who discusses top teams in the Buckeye State. For more information, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.

8-02-12 Show
High School Football America begins the 2012 high school football season with its first show from Los Angeles. Host Jeff Fisher talks about HSFA's expansion into the Southern California with High School Football America - SoCal on KLAC-AM 570 Fox Sports LA this fall. Guests on the show are: Pierce Frauenheim, head football coach at Immaculata High School (New Jersey), who earlier this week that he'd be retiring at the end of this season, which will be his 47th at the helm program and Greg Rakestraw, the longtime voice of Indiana high school sports championships and Home Town Sports, who previews the 2012 high school football season in the Hoosier State. For more info go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.

6-28-12 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, Jeff Fisher talks with Jon Butler, national executive director of Pop Warner, about his organization's new rules for 2012 that limit the amount of contact during practice.  Fisher's other two guests are Adam Breneman of Cedar Cliff High School (Pennsylvania), the nation's top tight end recruit, who will miss his senior season after tearing his ACL in mid-June, and Gus Kapolka, director of the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association's East-West All-Star Game.
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6-21-12 Show
Guests on this edition of High School Football America are Scott Hallenbeck, executive director of USA Football, and the legendary George Curry, who has come out of retirement to once again be the head football coach of Berwick High School in northeastern Pennsylvania. Hallenbeck and Fisher discuss the upcoming Under-19 International Federation of America Football World Championship that will be played June 30th through July 7th in Austin, Texas. Team USA won the inaugural event in 2009. Then Fisher talks with Curry, who built one of America's first national powerhouse programs in the 80's and 90's in the tiny town of Berwick. The Bulldogs have won three mythical national titles to go along with six Pennsylvania state championships. Curry is seventh on America's all-time coaching wins list with 413 victories coming into this season.

6-14-12 Show
High School Football America host Jeff Fisher talks with Joe Kinnan, head coach of Manatee High School in Florida. Manatee is ranked #1 in the nation, according to www.MaxPreps.com in its Early Contenders Top 25 Rankings. Also on the show is Greg Tepper, associate editors of Dave Campbell's Texas Football, talking about the magazine's 53rd annual issue that comes out June 21st, and Ray Cosenza, President of the Massachusetts High School Football Coaches Association, discussing the state's drive to establish a statewide playoff system.

6-07-12 Show
Who's the frontrunner for the 2012 mythical national championship in high school football? On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with MaxPreps' Steve Spiewak, who has just released his Preseason Top 25 Early Contenders Poll. Also on this edition of America's premiere high school football radio talk show is Bill Elliott, the new head coach at Celina High School (Texas); former NFL cornerback Mark McMillian, who now works with Junior Rank; and Drew Jubera, author of Must Win: A Season of Survival for a Town and Its Team that examines the 2010 season of Valdosta High School Wildcats in Georgia. Valdosta is America's leader in all-time victories.

5-31-12 Show
Erin Dimeglio of South Plantation High School in Florida joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher to talk about her goal of becoming a quarterback on the boys' football team. She's already the QB of her school's girls' flag football squad. Then Fisher talks with Chris Tripucka about the growth of the Allen Eagles football program in Texas. Tripucka, who owns Eagles Designs, a clothing and souvenir shop near the school's new $60 million stadium, talks about his son Shane, who is the top ranked punter in the state, plus reminisces about his famous family that includes father Frank, who played quarterback for the Denver Broncos and in the NFL and his brother Kelly, who played in the NBA with the Detroit Pistons. Tripucka, who played college football at Boston College, shares a wonderful story about Peyton Manning, who personally called his father to ask if he could where the elder Tripucka's retired #18 jersey this year in Denver. Actually all six of the Tripucka boys played college sports.

5-24-12 Show
Chad Hornik, new head football coach at Thomas Jefferson High School (Richmond, VA), has been charged with changing the school's football tradition. Hornik joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher to talk about the changes he's making in hopes of ending the Vikings' 41-game losing streak. Also on the show is Vince Leveille, former coach at Vassar High School (Michigan), who talks about his former player Travis Mills, who lost all four of his limbs after stepping on a landmine during his third tour of duty as a Marine in Afghanistan in April. If you'd like to help Travis, his wife and their young daughter, please visit www.travismills.org. The show wraps-up with a visit from sports psychologist Dr. Jarrod Spencer of Mind of the Athlete, who talks about the recent suicide of Junior Seau and concussions in football at all levels.

5-17-12 Show
Parkersburg High School
(West Virginia) may move into an exclusive club in 2012. Parkersburg head coach Don Reeves joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher to talk about his school's 791 victories and 16 state championships coming into this season. Only five high school football programs in America have ever won more than 800 games. Then Patrick Steenberge, founder of Global Football, talks with Fisher about the Global Ireland Football Tournament that will feature seven American high school football teams playing in Dublin, Ireland this fall. Fisher's final guest is Dave Schuman of National Underclassmen to talk about his football combines for freshmen, sophomores and juniors.

5-10-12 Show
High School Football America host Jeff Fisher talks with St. Xavier High School (Ohio) head coach Steve Specht, who has won two Ohio state titles since taking over in 2003. Specht is also the head coach of USA Football's Under-19 national team that will be competing for a world championship in Austin in June and July. Fisher also chats with Dean Dompierre, who is trying to get the Michigan High School Athletic Association to change its constitution so his son Eric, who has Down Syndrome, can play his senior season of high school football and basketball. Learn more at www.letemplay.us Fisher's final guest is Mark "Coach" Soto, the executive director of Battle for Veterans that will put-on seven high school football games in Northern and Southern California this August to raise money and awareness for wounded military veterans.

5-03-12 Show
Some would call Christian Hurt of Starmount High School (Boonville, NC) a "walking miracle". On this edition of High School Football America, Hurt joins Jeff Fisher to talk about the broken neck he suffered during his senior year of football and the odds he's overcome. The last part of the journey involves his friends and family trying to raise money up to $100,000 for a special surgery in Germany that will allow the high school senior to resume a normal life without having to wear a medical halo. Also on the program is Martin Ludlow, director of the Urban Football Coaches Association, who talks about the UFCA's 21st annual Coaches Clinic May 11th & 12th in Los Angeles. The show concludes with Chris Fore sharing memories of his meetings with San Diego Charger Junior Seau after a 1992 car crash that ended Fore's football career.


For information on how you can make donations to the Christian Hurt Medical Needs Fund there's a PayPal account set-up at Wells Fargo Bank, you can email Christian personally at christiana.hurt@yahoo.com

4-26-12 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher takes a look at some fun facts on the first round of the NFL Draft.  Fisher is joined by Bergen Catholic (NJ) head coach Nunzio Campanile, whose team will play one of the toughest national schedules in the country in 2012.  Another guest is Jeremy Grogan, the new head football coach at Walhalla High School in South Carolina.  At 25-years old, Grogan, who's an alum of Walhalla, is one of the youngest head coaches in America.

4-19-12 Show
High School Football America host Jeff Fisher is joined by Chris Fore, a veteran high school football coach and athletic director in Southern California, to talk about Fore's upcoming book that is tentatively titled How We Won: Inside the Locker Room of State Champion Football Coaches. Fore's book examines the philosophies of high school football coach from around the country that won state championships during the 2011 season. Also on the show is Steve Speiwak of MaxPreps, who talks about building the 2012 preseason high school football rankings, and Tim Curran, founder of Webletes.com , discussing his company's upcoming series of football combine camps in the south and Midwest.

3-29-12 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with two coaches that created two of the country's top high school football programs in just 12 years. Oaks Christian School (California) and Grayson High School (Georgia) both opened in 2000. On this show, Fisher talks with Oaks Christian's Bill Redell, who retired two weeks ago as the school's head coach. The 70-year old Redell, who is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, led the Lions to a 144-17-1 record and seven California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section championships. Grayson head football coach Mickey Conn then pays a visit to the show to talk about his school's first state title last year. The Rams won Georgia's 2011 AAAAA title, which was also the school's 100th all-time victory. Conn is followed on the show by a head coach whose school has won 785 games all-time. Todd Filtz is the new head coach at Canton McKinley (Ohio) and he talks about what it's like to take over a program that is 7th on America's all-time high school football victory list. The final guest on the show is Amy Donaldson, a sports reporter for the Deseret News in Utah, who discusses the recent suspension of Timpview HS head coach Louis Wongand Utah's expansion to six football championship classifications.

3-22-12 Show
Former Air Force assistant coach Chuck Petersen joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher to discuss his new role as head football coach at Orange Lutheran (California). Fisher also talks with Everett High School (Washington) athletic director Robert Polk, who has proposed a change to Washington Interscholastic Activities Association rules that would prohibit high school football players from wearing helmets and shoulder pads during the off-season workouts. The show concludes with a conversation with John Loose, founder of the Lauren's First and Goal Foundation that conducts high school football camps in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Money raised from the camps goes to pediatric cancer research.

3-08-12 Show
On this episode of High School Football America, Jeff Fisher talks with Elijah Asante, the new head football coach at St. Paul High School in Santa Fe Springs, California.  Asante talks about taking-over for Marijon Ancich, who retired as the second winningest head coach in California high school football history at the end of the 2011 season.  Also on the show is West Catholic High School (Philadelphia, PA) head coach Brian Fluck, who discusses how the community stepped-up to help keep West Catholic and three other Philadelphia schools open, two months after the archdiocese announced it would be closing them at the end of the school year.  Jeff's third guest is Jim Cashman, an offensive lineman at Haddonfield High School, who was named as the New Jersey Player of the Year by the Maxwell Football Club.

3-01-12 Show
Allentown Central Catholic (PA) quarterback Brendan Nosovitch, the winner of the Maxwell Football Club's Jim Henry Award, joins Jeff Fisher on this episode of High School Football America.  Nosovitch, who will play his college ball at South Carolina, talks about graduating as Pennsylvania's second best all-time passer.  He finished his career with nearly 13,000 yards in total offense.  Also on the show is Manawa HS (WI) athletic director Jeff Bortle, who talks about the community raising $250,000 for a new football field.

2-23-12 Show
Jeff Fisher welcomes directors Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin to this episode of High School Football America to talk about their Academy Award-nominated documentary film Undefeated. Nominated in the category of Best Documentary, Undefeated follows the story of the Manassas High School (Memphis, Tennessee) football team through the 2009 season, as the Tigers try to capture the school's first playoff victory since the school opened in 1899. Also appearing as a guest on the show is Steve Parker, who will present former Pittsburgh Steeler Dermontti Dawson at his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Canton, Ohio this summer. Parker was Dawson's coach at Bryan Station High School in Kentucky. It's Parker who is credited with convincing Dawson to try playing high school football again, after he had given-up after a bad experience in ninth grade. The show wraps-up with Mario Cadenas of Intel Athletics, promoter of the Beehive Classic in Utah. The Beehive Classic will be played September 1st at Bingham High School and feature three top-notch Utah high school football teams squaring-off with two of California's top programs (Long Beach Poly & Serra HS) and three-time defending Colorado 4A champ Valor Christian. Click here to watch the trailer for Undefeated.

2-16-12 Show
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a guest on this edition of High School Football America with Jeff Fisher.  CNN's chief medical correspondent talks about his documentary Big Hits, Broken Dreams that airs on CNN on February 25, 2012 at 8 and 11 pm EST.  Big Hits, Broken Dreams examines the subject of concussions in high school football.  In addition to Dr. Gupta, Fisher talks with LA Times Preps Sports Writer Eric Sondheimer about Southern California high school football and Brian Fluck, head football coach at West Catholic High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  West Catholic, one of the city's most successful football teams, is closing at the end of this school year due to declining enrollment.  
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2-09-12 Show
There are 1.1 million high school football players in America. On this episode of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Noah Spence of Bishop McDevitt High School in Pennsylvania, who was singled-out by The Maxwell Football Club as its National Player of the Year. Also on the show is Jimmy Nolan, the new head football coach at Carson High School in California; Ryan Anderson of Roosevelt High School in Ohio, talking about his battle against a rare form of bone cancer that is now in remission; and Christopher Lyke of www.TexasHSFootball.com who talks about Texas' football realignment for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

2-02-12 Show
For the second week in a row, High School Football America host Jeff Fisher talks with a former NFL quarterback turned high school football head coach. 16-year NFL veteran Jon Kitna is the new head coach at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington. Fisher also speaks with Jamey Dubose, who after leading Prattville High School to two Alabama 6A championships in four years, resigned to take the head coaching job at Florence High School. Round-out the show is Mark Wolpert, executive director of The Maxwell Football Club, who talks about Noah Spence of Bishop McDevitt High School in Pennsylvania, who was named organization's National Player of the Year.

1-26-11 Show
Former NFL quarterback Shane Matthews is the latest pro to take a high school football head coaching job. The 14-year NFL veterans joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher to talk about taking-over the football program at Nease High School in Florida. Nease is the alma mater of Denver Broncos QB Tim Tebow. Also on the show is Steve Spiewak of MaxPreps, who looks ahead to next week's National Letter of Intent signing day; and Dave Beachnau of the Detroit Sports Commission, who discuss The Detroit Sports Commission Prep Kickoff Classic August 24th and 25th in the Motor City.

1-19-11 Show
High School Football America host Jeff Fisher chats with Addison Marshall of Foster High School in Fulshear, Texas. Marshall is the 2011 winner of the High School Rudy Awards. Fisher talks with Addison, and his mother Val, about his two-and-a-half year battle with leukemia. Even though Addison is still going through chemotherapy treatments, he was able to return to the field to play in the second half of his final game of his senior season in November. To learn more about the High School Rudy Awards, go to www.highschoolrudyawards.com

1-12-12 Show
On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher reveals HSFA's 2011 National Coach of the Year. Al Fracassa of Brother Rice, who brought his team back from a 4-4 start to win the 2011 Division 2 Michigan state football championship, is this year's honoree. In addition to the incredible comeback, Coach Fracassa won his 400th career game during the season. Also on the show: recently retired Judson High School (Texas) head coach Jim Rackley; Vinnie Ascolese, who retired at the end of the season from North Bergen High School as the third winningest high school football coach in New Jersey history; and Mike Brennan, who will serve as head coach of the Pennsylvania All-Stars in this year's Big 33 Classic in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Brennan, who is the head coach at Blue Mountain High School (PA), will try to snap a three-game losing streak against the Ohio All-Stars. This year's game will be played June 16th.
For more info on the game go to www.big33.org.

1-05-12 Show
Host Jeff Fisher kicks-off 2012 by announcing High School Football America's National Player of the Year. Johnathan Gray of Aledo HS (Texas) won the honor over quarterback Maty Mauk of Kenton HS (Ohio) and wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham of Hillcrest HS (Missouri). Fisher also chats with Tony Severino, head coach at Rockhurst HS (Missouri), who is the head coach of the West All-Stars in Saturday's U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas. Other guests on the show: Andrea Marsh, a defensive back on the Panama Central HS football team (New York), and Dazmond Patterson, a running back on Plant City HS (Florida). Both Marsh and Patterson are finalists for the 2011 High School Football Rudy Awards. For more info, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

12-15-11 Show
It's the final weekend of the 2011 high school football season. On this episode of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher closes-out the season with a chat with MaxPreps' Steve Spiewak about the national championship chase, plus he talks with three head coach going after state gold medals. Guests on the show are: Jim Benkert, head coach at Westlake HS (California); Tom Nola, head coach Clairton HS (Pennsylvania); and Hal Wasson, head coach at Southlake Carroll HS (Texas). Clairton is going after its third straight Pennsylvania Class A title; Westlake will played national power De La Salle for the California Open Division championship; and Southlake Carroll is going after a record-tying 8th Texas state football title. For more info go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

12-08-11 Show
Lake Travis High School (Austin, Texas) is trying to do something that no other Texas high school football team has ever done, win five straight state championships. Lake Travis head coach Hank Carter joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher on this edition of the show to talk about the Cavaliers' incredible five-year run. Lake Travis needs two more wins to capture the school's fifth straight title. Also on the show are two coaches involved in incredible turnarounds. Powers Catholic (Flint, Michigan) head coach Bob Buckel talks about going from 1-8 in 2010 to a Division 5 state title this year. Then Allentown Central Catholic (Pennsylvania) head coach Harold Fairclough talks about how his defending 3A champs have turned around a 2-5 start to move to within one game of playing for a second straight title.
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12-01-11 Show
Former NFLers who are now coaching at the high school level take center stage on this episode of High School Football America with host Jeff Fisher. First, Jeff is joined by Don Beebe, the former Buffalo Bill, who last weekend led Aurora Christian to the Illinois 3A state championship. Then, former Pro Bowl quarterback Gus Frerotte talks about leading John Burroughs to a runner-up finish in Missouri's Class 3. The show wraps-up with former Jacksonville Jaguar quarterback Phil Stambaugh, who is now the had coach Pius X High School, discussing his school's run for a 1A championship in Pennsylvania. For more information, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

11-17-11 Show
High School Football America host Jeff Fisher talks turkey...or at least Turkey Day football...on this episode of America's premiere high school football talk show. Bill Tracey, head coach at Wellesley HS (Massachusetts), talks about the granddaddy of Thanksgiving Day games: Wellesley against Needham. The two schools will meet for the 124th consecutive Thanksgiving next Thursday; it's America's oldest Turkey Day game. Then Dick Hammer, a Pennsylvania high school sports Hall of Fame broadcaster, talks about the Easton (Pennsylvania) / Phillipsburg (New Jersey) Turkey Day game that annually attracts 15,000 fans to Lafayette College. Hammer will be broadcasting his 45th game in the 105-game series next Thursday. The two communities are separated only by the Delaware River. Randy Taylor, recruiting analyst and national speaker for NCSA Athletic Recruiting, discusses his company's innovative programs that connect athletes, seeking scholarships, with college football programs at all levels. Taylor has 30-years experience in college football with stops at Illinois, Minnesota, San Jose St., UCLA and UNLV; at UCLA he produced a #1 ranked recruiting class. For more info, go to www.ncsasports.org  The show wraps-up with MaxPreps' Steve Spiewak talking about the national championship chase.

11-10-11 Show
In this episode of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Brian Hermanson, head coach of Washington High School in South Dakota. Washington is going for its 38th overall state championship this weekend, which is the most state titles for any high school football team in America. Also on the show: Byron Jenson of the High School Rudy Awards, plus Collin Nordstrom and his mother Andie. Collin is back on the football field at Seton Hall Prep in New Jersey after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer 21 months ago. For more info, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

11-03-11 Show

Before St. Paul's Episcopal School 8th grader Ostin McPherson makes Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd next week, his coach Jimmy Perry joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher to talk about McPherson's 204 yard rushing game on October 28th.  Also on this edition of High School Football America, Fisher talks with Larry "Bud"Wright of Sheridan High School, who became Indiana's all-time winningest coach with his 369th victory last Friday.  Fisher also chats with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review sports writer Jason Cato, who discusses his recent article on the spread of gambling into high school football.  Plus, Dr. Jarrod Spencer of Mind of the Athlete joins Fisher to talk about an incident at at Memphis-area high school last week that caused Collierville (Tennessee) head football coach Shawn Abel to resign after a high-intensity locker room speech was taped and put on YouTube.  For more info, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.

10-27-11 Show

In this episode of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with MaxPreps' Steve Spiewak about what should be a record-setting weekend ahead. Also on the show is Dan Jones, head coach at Gaffney High School in South Carolina. The Indians are currently ranked #6 in the nation by MaxPreps. Gaffney has won the most South Carolina state high school football championships. Jeff will then be joined by Carm DeFrancesco, head coach at Mt. Carmel HS in Pennsylvania. Last Friday, Mt. Carmel became just the fifth school in America to win 800 games. The show closes with Armwood (FL) head coach Sean Callahan. Friday, Callahan's team, that is ranked #2 this week by MaxPreps, will face unbeaten Plant HS. For more info go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

10-20-11 Show

High School Football America host Jeff Fisher is joined by Johnathan Gray of Aledo High School in Texas, who is the state's all-time leader in touchdowns. He also has a shot at becoming the country's leading rusher before he leaves for the University of Texas. Ken Hall of Sugar Land High School in Texas is the current record holder with 11,232 yards in his career between 1950-53. Gray is averaging almost 14-and-a-half yards a carry this season. Also on the show is Paul Knox, head coach at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. The Dons are second to only Long Beach Polyin producing NFL players. Jeff's final guest is Stan Sexton, head coach at Phoebus High School in Virginia. Phoebus currently owns the longest active win streak in the country at 52 straight victories. For more information, please go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com

10-13-11 Show

High School Football America host Jeff Fisher talks with Kent Roosevelt High School's Ryan Anderson and his coach John Nemec about Ryan's battle with a rare form of bone cancer that derailed his promising football career before his senior season. Not only was Anderson one of the top offensive lineman in Ohio, but he was also ranked in the Top 35 nationally. Also on the show is Brianna Amat of Pinckney High School in Michigan. On September 30th, Amat not only kicked her team's game winning field goal, but she was also named Homecoming Queen in the same game.
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10-06-11 Show

Recording-setting high school quarterbacks take center stage on this edition of High School Football America with host Jeff Fisher.  First, Dylan Sheffield of Wichita Falls High School in Texas talks about his record-breaking performance on September 30th when he threw for 683 yards and seven touchdowns to set a new Texas state record for yards passing in a game.  Then Fisher talks with Sunrise Christian Academy head football Trey Hall, who discussed his record breaking QB Zach Howell, who's thrown for nearly 2,500 yards and 24 TDs in six games.  Finally, High School Football America's In the Huddle interview this week is with St. Edward (Ohio) head coach Rick Finotti, who talks about his team's big game Saturday against top-ranked Don Bosco Prep from New Jersey.  The defending Ohio Division I champion Eagles enter the game ranked #9 in the nation and riding a 21-game win streak.  #1 Don Bosco Prep owns a 39-game win streak.  For more info, go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.

9-22-11 Show

For the second week in a row, High School Football America host Jeff Fisher talks with a head coach who just won his 400th game.  Bob Paroli of Seventy-First HS in North Carolina talks with Fisher about his 400th, plus looks back at his 54 years as a football coach.  Paroli is the 9th coach in high school football history to reach 400 wins.  Also on the show: Steve Spiewak of MaxPreps.com, who looks at which team has the best shot at winning the 2011 national championship and Ben Enos of the Mercury News in the Bay Area, who talks about Friday's night's national showdown between national powers De La Salle (CA) and St. Thomas Aquinas (FL).

9-15-11 Show

The Bolles School's Corky Rogers, Florida's winningest head football coach, joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher on this edition of HSFA to talk about his 400th career victory on September 9th. Also on the show: Trinity High School (Louisville, KY) head football coach Bob Beatty, who talks about his team's Friday night showdown with St. Xavier of Cincinnati; Mark Cook, athletic director at Herrington High School in Kansas, talking about his football team's "Win One for the Gipper" comeback after learning of death of its head football coach Bud Peterson last Friday while he was in the hospital; and Byron Jenson of the High School Rudy Awards. Learn how to nominate an inspirational player at www.highschoolfootballrudyawards.com.

9-08-11 Show

High School Football America is LIVE in Lowell, Michigan for this edition of America's premiere national high school football talk show. Host Jeff Fisher is joined by Theresa Beachum of Lowell High School's Pink Arrow Pride football game, that in three short years has raised $750,000 to help community residents in their battle with cancer. At the heart of the game is the Lowell Red Arrows football team wearing pink uniforms to bring awareness to the cancer journey being walked by members of the tiny town of 4,000 outside of Grand Rapids. The home crowd supports the cause by wearing pink t-shirts to the game that turns entire football stadium into a sea of pink. Lowell quarterback Gabe Dean, the 2010 Division 1-2 Player of the Year, also joins Fisher to talk about his third game in a pink jersey. Also on the show is Gehrig Dieter of South Bend's Washington High School, who last week set a national record with 437 yards receiving.

9-01-11 Show

Pennsylvania and Ohio take centerstage on this edition of High School Football America.  Host Jeff Fisher talks with Pittsburgh Central Catholic head football coach Terry Totten about his top-ranked Vikings' showdown with Archbishop Wood of Philadelphia on ESPN2 on Sunday.  PCC is ranked #1 in Pennsylvania's 4A classification, while Wood is ranked #1 in 3A.  Then Fisher takes his listeners to the Cincinnati-area for a chat with Colerain head football coach Tom Bolden, whose team is coming-off a big win over Cocoa, Florida.  The Cardinals beat the three-time defending Florida champs in a nationally-televised game on August 28th.  The show wraps-up with photographer Morgan Tyree, who has just released a book called Temples...Where the Game is Played.  Tyree has taken incredible photos of six-and-eight man high school football games in Montana and Wyoming.  For more info on his book, go to http://six-eight-eleven.blogspot.com.

8-25-2011 Show

In this episode of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Bishop Gorman (Nevada) head coach Tony Sanchez about his team's upcoming battle with Armwood HS from Florida.  Both teams are considered to be Top 10 teams with their showdown being televised to a national TV audience on ESPN2.  Fisher is also joined by head coaches Al Fracassa of Brother Rice (Michigan) and John Herrington of Farmington Hills Harrison (Michigan).  Fracassa is the state's winningest coach, five wins shy of 400 for his career, while Herrington has captured 13 state titles.  Between them they have 94-years of head coaching experience.  Rounding out the show is David Beigie of State Farm talking about this year's  Friday Night Feats video contest to find the biggest moments of the 2011 high school football season.  For more info go to www.FridayNightFeats.com.

8-18-2011 Show

In this episode of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher takes you on a cross-country journey with stops in Alaska, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Texas.  First, Jeff talks with Phil Stambaugh, head coach at Pius X HS in Roseto, Pennsylvania.  Pius X is the smallest high school in America playing 11-man football.  Then he talks with Mark Tabb, author of the book The Sacred Acre...the Ed Thomas Story.  Thomas, who was the head football coach at Aplington-Parkersburg HS in Iowa, was murdered in 2009 by a former player.  Jeff's third interview is with Jason Caldarera of Service High School in Anchorage, Alaska.  Service and Leilehua (Hawaii) opened the 2011 regular season in the Fire and Ice Bowl on February 11th in Hawaii.  The show wraps-up with a conversation with Tony Heath, head football coach at Pearland HS, outside of Houston.  Pearland is the defending Texas 5A Division I champion.    

8-11-2011 Show

America's winningest high school football coaches join host Jeff Fisher on this edition of High School Football America. John McKissick, head coach at Summerville High School in South Carolina, talks about his 586 wins in 59 years as the leader of the Green Wave, while J.T. Curtis, who's second on the all-time wins list, reminisces about his 492 wins in 40+ years at John Curtis Christian School in Louisiana.  Also on the show is Rashid Ghazi of North Shore Films, who discusses his documentary on Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan called Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football. 

8-04-2011 Show

Chris Shields, the first-year head football coach at Joplin High School in Missouri, joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher to discuss how his team and the Joplin community are recovering from the May 22nd tornadoes that devastated the town, destroyed the high school and left 160 people dead.  Jeff also talks with Jess Simpson, head coach at Buford High School in Georgia.  Buford is ranked #1 by MaxPreps.com in its Preseason Small Schools Top 25 Poll.  Jeff's final guest is Dr. Lamar Hasbrouck, who discusses the four heat-related deaths on high school football practice fields during the recent heat wave and what can be done to prevent such tragedies in the future.

7-28-2011 Show

Two legendary coaches join Jeff Fisher on this edition of High School Football America.  Gary Rankin of Alcoa High School in Tennessee talks about his Hall of Fame career that has seen him win nine state football titles and Greg Toal of Don Bosco Prep looks back on his 12-years of building the Ramsey, New Jersey school into a national high school football power.  Also on the show: Maty Mauk, senior quarterback at Kenton High School in Ohio.  Mauk is poised to break several national career passing records this season, including career passing yards, total offense and touchdown passes.

7-21-2011 Show Inaugural broadcast

On High School Football America's inaugural show, host Jeff Fisher talks with Brad Igou, head football coach at Barrow High School in Barrow, Alaska and his assistant Brian Houston about the start of the 2011 high school football season on July 26th in the country's 49th State. Barrow is the only school playing 11-man football above the Arctic Circle. Also on the show: Steve Spiewak of MaxPreps.com, who talks about his Preseason Top 25 Early Contenders Poll; Scott Young, head football coach of West Rowan High School in Mt. Ulla, North Carolina, whose team has won three straight 3-A state titles and owns a 46-game win streak; and Brandon Sheppard, Executive Director of the National Select 7-on-7 Championship.