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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. |
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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. |
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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.
For more information, please go to
www.highschoolfootballamerica.com |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
For more info go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
For more info, go towww.highschoolfootballamerica.com. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
For more info go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
For more info, go to
www.highschoolfootballamerica.com |
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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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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