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9-17-15 Show On this edition of High School Football America, Jeff Fisher talks with St. Joseph Regional (NJ) head coach Augie Hoffman and Kevin Wright of IMG Academy in Florida |
9-3-15 Show On this edition of High School Football America, Jeff Fisher talks with Chris Jensen, head coach at Euless Trinity HS in Texas and Elijah Brooks, head coach at DeMatha High School in Maryland. |
8-27-15
Show On this edition of the High School Football America Radio
Show, host Jeff Fisher talks with Bishop Gorman (Nevada) head coach Kenny
Sanchez about taking over the powerful Gaels, who last year were named
“mythical” national champs by USA TODAY in 2014. Fisher also talks about the upcoming high school football season in Pennsylvania with Dave Mika, founder of www.EasternPAFootball.com and www.WesternPAFootball.net . |
8-20-15
Show On this edition of the High School Football America Radio
Show, Jeff Fisher talks with Shaun Aguano, head coach at Chandler
High School in Arizona and Mike Palmieri, head coach of Mallard Creek High School in North Carolina. |
8-13-15 Show High School Football America Radio Show host Jeff
Fisher is joined on tonight's show by Jim Halley, who has been the
man behind the USA Today Super 25 national rankings since 2007. Halley will take you inside this season's preseason poll that features De La Salle High School from California at #1. The Spartans have claimed five Super 25 "mythical" national championships. Also on the show with Fisher is Roger Harriott, new head coach at St. Thomas Aquinas in Florida. The Raiders are ranked in the Top 25 in all five of the national ranking services. |
8-6-15 Show On this edition of High School Football America,
Jeff Fisher talks with Chuck Petersen of Orange Lutheran High
School in Southern California. OLH plays in the ultra-tough Trinity League,
which year-in and year-out features some of the top high school football
teams in the country. Prior to coming to Orange Lutheran Coach Petersen spent 17 years as an assistant coach at Air Force where in 2003 he was named Assistant Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association. Also on the show, Fisher talks with Ken Hoffmann of Krossover Intellegence about the company's cutting-edge game film breakdown for coaches and their programs. When you receive your game film back from Krossover, each event from your game will appear as its own video clip tagged with play and player information that will allow you to search and sort the footage however you’d like. They'll even extract stats from the footage, giving you everything from basic box score information to advanced analytics that measure your offensive and defensive efficiencies. |
7-23-15 Show It seems like it was only yesterday that we took
to the ArtistFirst Radio Network airwaves out of Ohio with an idea and a big
dose of hope that high school football fans across America would enjoy a
year-round radio show on the internet dedicated to the sport played by more
than 15,000 schools and 1.1 million players across America. Tonight we
celebrate the beginning of our fifth year! We'd like to thank everyone
for making the show a hit. We currently get over 60,000 downloads per show,
which tells us that that little idea we hatched on July 21, 2011 was in-fact
exactly what high school football fans wanted in-season and out. Tonight's show has two great guests — Chris Wolfe, head coach at Male High School in Louisville, Kentucky and Jason Negro, head coach at St. John Bosco in Bellflower in Southern California. |
7-9-15 Show On this edition of the High School Football America Radio Show, host Jeff Fisher talks with Martha’s Vineyard (Massachusetts) High School head football coach Donald Herman about his 35 years of coaching football on the island off Cape Cod. |
7-2-15 Show On this edition of the High School Football America Radio Show, host Jeff Fisher talks with Steve Spiewak about MaxPreps’ 2015 Early Contenders High School Football Top 25. |
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5-28-15 Show On this edition of High School Football America - news, scores, statistics, videos, host Jeff Fisher talks with Roland Smith, head coach of Miami Central HS in Florida and Jim Reeser, sports editor at The Citizen's Voice in northeast Pennsylvania. Reeser talks about the recent resignation of Berwick HS head coach George Curry, who's fifth on America's all-time wins list. |
5-21-15 Show On this edition of the High School Football
America Radio Show, I talk with Chris Fisher, creator of #txhsfbchat
that takes place every Wednesday night at 8PM Central time on Twitter. Coach
Fisher is also the offensive line coach at Ridge Point High School in Texas. I’ll also talk with Donal Walsh and Dan Lyle, who have created a rugby-style tackling technique clinic for high school football players and coaches that will be held during the 2015 National Collegiate Rugby Championships being held May 29-31st in suburban Philadelphia. |
5-14-15 Show On this edition of the High School Football America
Radio Show, host Jeff Fisher talks with Jim Reeser, Sports Editor of
The Citizens Voice in northeast Pennsylvania, about three-time national
champ Berwick suspending its football program for a couple of weeks while it
investigates possible illegal student-athlete transfers into the school. Also on the show, Fisher talks with Army assistant coach John Loose, who is the founder, along with his wife Marianne, of the Lauren’s First and Goal Foundation that puts-on the largest one-day football camp in the country at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. The event that attracts over volunteer 300 college coaches benefits the non-profit foundation with proceeds going to pediatric brain tumor research and cancer services. Fisher’s final guest is Tony Merrell, head coach at Christian Heritage Academy in Oklahoma. Merrell is also the National Sales Director of echo1612, the revolutionary sideline replay system that was created at the school. |
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1-22-15 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Bruce Larson of Somerset High School in Wisconsin, who is the 2015 NFL Don Shula High School Football Coach of the Year. Fisher also talks with Phil Stambaugh, head coach at Pius X High School in Roseto, Pennsylvania about the recently announced closing of the school that is one of th smallest playing 11-man football in America. |
1-15-15 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Hoover (Alabama) head coach Josh Niblett about his success as the leader of the Bucs, who have won three straight Alabama state football championships. Fisher's second guest is Mark Soto, founder of The Honor Bowl, high school football kickoff event that features 10 games in Northern and Southern California that raises money for U.S. military veterans. |
1-08-15 Show On this edition of High School Football America, Jeff Fisher talks with Tom Westerberg, head coach of Allen, whose Eagles have won three straight Texas state championships and three High School Football America national championships. Also on the show is Blake Miller, an assistant coach at Jemez Valley High School in New Mexico. Jemez Valley, an 8-Man program, finished its first-ever varsity football season with a perfect 4-0 regular season record, before losing in the first round of the state playoffs. |
10-16-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Paramus Catholic head coach Chris Partridge about the North Jersey school's rise to power in the Big North - United Division and its victory last Saturday against Don Bosco Prep. That victory vaulted the Paladins from #18 in the High School Football America Top 25 to #4. Also on the show, Fisher talks with the head coaches from the cross-town rivalry battle in Lubbock, Texas. Lubbock High School Jason Strunk, who writes The Turnaround for High School Football America, will be joined by Lubbock Cooper head coach Max Kattwinkel to talk about the game and working together in the same school district in west Texas. |
10-09-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Mater Dei (California) head coach Bruce Rollinson as his team prepares for its showdown with #7 St. John Bosco (California) tomorrow night. Mater Dei is ranked #13 in the latest High School Football America Top 25. Also on the show, Fisher previews this weekend's other Top 25 battles between #2 Don Bosco Prep (New Jersey) and #18 Paramus Catholic (New Jersey) and #24 Carmel (Indiana) and #20 Warren Central (Indiana). |
10-02-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with South Panola High School (Mississippi) head coach Lance Pogue and John Roderique, head coach at Webb City in Missouri. |
9-25-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with St. John Bosco (CA) head coach Jason Negro on the eve of his team's showdown with Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas. St. John Bosco is ranked #6 in the latest High School Football America Top 25, while Bishop Gorman is #7. Also on the show is John Rodenberg of #8 Archbishop Moeller whose team is getting ready for a big game Friday night against St. Xavier in Cincinnati. |
9-18-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Ben Davis HS (Indiana) head coach Mike Kirschener. Ben Davis is ranked #24 in the latest High School Football America Top 25. Friday night, Ben Davis will face Warren Central in a battle of 4-0 teams in Indianapolis. Also on the show, Fisher talks with Lubbock High School head coach Jason Strunk, who writes "The Turnaround" for High School Football America. Friday night, Strunk's Westerners will play arch-rival Monterey in the "Silver Spurs" game in west Texas. |
9-11-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Rush Probst, head coach at Colquitt County High School in Georgia and Bridget Algeo, sister of the late Dan Algeo, head coach at Cardinal O'Hara High School in suburban Philadelphia, who died suddenly over the summer of a heart attack at 49 years old. |
9-4-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with St. Joseph's Prep head football coach Gabe Infante. The Hawks are currently ranked #10 in High School Football America's Top 25. Also on the show, Fisher looks at two great high school football events this weekend - The Pink Arrow Pride game in Lowell, Michigan and The Honor Bowl in Southern California. |
8-21-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with MaxPreps.com's Steve Spiewak about the upcoming high school football season and former De La Salle (California) head coach Bob Ladouceur about the upcoming film "When The Game Stands Tall". |
8-14-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Royce Boehm, head coach at Lee's Summit West High School in Missouri. LSW has won three state championships in 11 years at the school outside of Kansas City. Also on the show, Fisher talks with Ed Dunn, the head coach of Martin Luther King High School in Philadelphia. Dunn talks about the 2014 season, plus being the centerpiece of the high school football documentary "We Could Be King" that looks at the 2013 season when MLK was merged with arch-rival Germantown Academy. MLK went from 1-10 in 2012 to winning its first-ever Philadelphia Public League championship in 2013. |
8-7-Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher takes an in-depth look at the upcoming Sony Pictures film "When the Game Stands Tall" that opens nationwide August 22nd. Fisher talks with Jim Caveziel, who plays the legendary head football coach Bob Ladouceur, who led De La Salle High School in Concord, California on a 151 game win streak over 12 seasons. Also on the show is Michael Chiklas, who plays Ladouceur's longtime assistant Terry Eidson. Rounding out the show are Coach Lad and Coach Terry themselves. Fisher also takes a look at High School Football America's preseason Top 25 national rankings, which are also a part of the MaxPreps.com 2014 composite high school football rankings. |
7-31-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Lubbock High School (Texas) head football coach Jason Strunk about the upcoming season. Strunk writes "The Turnaround" for High School Football America. Fisher also chats with Judd Ehrlich, director of the high school football documentary film "We Could Be King". |
7-24-14
Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff
Fisher talks with David Zelon, producer of the upcoming Sony Pictures
film "When the Game Stands Tall" that takes you through the end of the
151-game De La Salle Spartans' win streak under legendary head coach Bob
Ladouceur. The film opens nationwide on August 22nd. |
6-05-14
Show On this edition of High School Football America, host
Jeff Fisher talks with MaxPreps.com's Steve Spiewak about his Early
Contenders Top 25 Poll. |
5-08-14
Show On this edition of High School Football America, host
Jeff Fisher flashes back to June 2011 when he and Trish Hoffman talked with
Johnny Manziel, who was fresh out of high school in Texas. This
interview took place way before the birth of Johnny Football. It's a great
look into the young man, who left Tivy High School in Kerrville, Texas for
Texas A&M. Also on the show, Fisher talks with Jason Strunk, head coach of Lubbock High School in west Texas, who writes "The Turnaround" at www.highschoolfootballamerica.com. |
4-10-13
Show On this edition of High School Football America, host
Jeff Fisher talks with Bailey Kenter, a punter a Layton Christian
Academy in Utah. Kenter hails from Australia and has come to America to
pursue his dream of playing Division 1 college football. During his junior
year, Kenter was one of the top punters in the nation, averaging over 46
yards a punt. Also on the show is Joey Teichert, one of the founders of Southern Sport that producers the Debris Inhibitor Razur. The TDI Razur keeps crumb rubber from Field Turf out of players' shoes. It also gives you the great look of spatting without the high cost of tape. |
3-27-14
Show On this edition of High School Football America, host
Jeff Fisher talks with Joe Reddinger, the recently retired head coach
at North Dickinson High School in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Reddinger,
who is a member of the Michigan High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame,
won over 250 games during his 37 years as the Nordics head coach. His team's
set a Michigan state record by qualifying for the state playoffs 23 straight
years. Also on the show is former NFL linebacker Jeff Kopp, who is the new head coach at Providence School in Jacksonville, Florida. |
3-06-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with former NFL member Mark McMillian about the Blue-Grey All-American Bowl. He also talks with coach Chris Fore about his book "Building Championship-Caliber Football Programs". |
2-27-14
Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff
Fisher talks with Mike Grant, son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Bud
Grant. Mike discusses his incredible success at Eden Prairie High School in
Minnesota, where in 22 years, his teams have ONLY lost 24 games. Grant also
talks about his time as a ballboy during the 70's when his dad was taking
the Minnesota Vikings to four Super Bowls. Also on the show, Fisher discusses the 4th annual Honor Bowl that was started with a dream between Mark Soto and Casey Taylor, head coach at Del Oro High School, outside of Sacramento, California. The Honor Bowl, which this year will feature 10 top-notch games in northern and southern California, features great football with an incredible salute to America's military. Soto is the executive director of the non-profit group that puts on the event, while Taylor's team has always taken part. This year, Del Oro, which finished runner-up in the CIF Division I championship game, will play on both weekends of the event. For more information on the Honor Bowl, go to www.thehonorgroup.org |
2-13-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Lubbock head football coach Jason Strunk about the ups-and-downs of the 2013 season that included Strunky suffering some serious health issues on the sidelines during a game in September. The west Texas coach also discusses his High School Football America blog called The Turnaround. Fisher's second guest is Pennsylvania Hall of Fame high school football coach Jim Tkach talking about his upcoming Nike Coach of the Year Clinic in Allentown, Pennsylvania that will feature top-notch college football coaches: Jimbo Fisher of national champion Florida St.; James Franklin of Penn St.; Paul Chryst of Pitt; Paul Rhoads of Iowa St. and Pete Lembo of Ball St. The Allentown clinic will be held February 27th through March 1st. |
2-06-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, on the day after National Letter of Intent Signing Day, host Jeff Fisher talks with two guys that weren't heavily recruited out of high school, but made some noise on the college level. Chris Salvi, who describes himself as a "Zero-Star Recruit" walked-on at Notre Dame and became a special cog on the team's special teams. Salvi's impact led Fighting Irish head coach Brian Kelly to give him a scholarship for his senior season. Salvi talks with Fisher about his time at Notre Dame and playing professional football in Italy. Salvi plays for the Torino Jaguars in the Italian Football League. Fisher then talks with Brennan Marion, who at 26-years old is the new head football coach at Waynesboro High School in Pennsylvania. Marion fought the mean streets of western Pennsylvania before heading west to play junior college ball in California where at one point he was homeless. Eventually, Brennan got a scholarship to the University of Tulsa where he set an NCAA record for yards per catch. Brennan's grandmother made him promise her before her death that he would make something of himself. He's done that and more by getting his college degree; playing in professional football; and now giving back as a high school football coach. |
1-23-14 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Matt Webb, head coach at Maryville High School in Missouri. In 2013, the Spoofhounds won their second straight Missouri Division 3 high school football championship, but even more amazing was that the school's entire football program - from varsity down through the 7th grade team - was a perfect 45-0. If you add-in the town's university, Northwestern Missouri State, which won the NCAA Division II championship, Maryville was a perfect 60-0 in 2013. Also on the show is Chuck Rohe, director of the Nike Coach of the Year Clinics, which put on 16 clinics around the country for coaches at all levels |
1-16-14 Show Check-out this action-packed edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher, who begins the show with a great chat with Bill Courtney, the centerpiece of the Oscar-winning high school football documentary Undefeated. Courtney gives a great inside look at life after the 2012 Oscar win and how the stars of the film and his 2009 Manassas High School (Memphis, Tennessee) team are doing now. From the Big Screen to the Small Screen as Zach Gilford, who played Matt Saracen (QB1) on the hit NBC television series Friday Night Lights drops-in to look back on his role on the show from the fictional town of Dillon, Texas. The show wraps-up with high school football coach and administrator Chris Fore talking about his recently released book Building Championship-Caliber Football Programs. The book, which can be purchased at coachfore.org, features over 200 high school football coaches from 42 states that won championships during the 2011 season. |
1-09-14 Show On the first show of 2014, High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Allen High School (Texas) head football coach Tom Westerberg about his school's back-to-back Texas Class 5A Division I championships. Allen was also crowned as High School Football America's "mythical" national champion for 2013. Also on the show is Blake Barnett, who will be entering his senior year at Santiago High School in Corona, California in the fall of 2014. Barnett talks about his verbal commitment to Notre Dame, plus his recent MVP at the Elite 11 competition in Southern California. |
12-19-13 Show Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Steve Spiewak of MaxPreps.com about the end of the 2013 high school football season that wraps-up this weekend with state championship games in California and Texas. Also on the 100th edition of the show is Santiago (Corona, California) High School head football coach Jeff Steinberg, who talks about the recovery his junior linebacker Jordan Walker, who suffered a severe neck and spinal cord injury in a playoff game on November 22nd. You can donate to a fund set-up to defray Jordan's medical expenses by going to gofundme.com #prayforJordanWalker. |
12-12-13 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher takes an up-close look at the 11 states that are still playing football. Guest on the show are: Josh Wilson, founder of FloridaHSFootball.com and David Mika, founder of EasternPAFootball.com and WesternPAFootball.net. |
12-05-13 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher takes a look ahead to the stretch run of the 2013 season, plus looks at last week's stat leaders and the Player of the Year watch. For more info go to highschoolfootballamerica.com. |
11-14-13 Show High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks "Small Ball" on this edition of the show. The three schools that are discussed on the show have a combined population of 5,300 residents. The show begins with Jerry Cowan, head coach at Duchesne High School in Utah. Duchesne has won 45 straight games (fifth longest active streak in America) with three straight Class 1A titles. Then Fisher takes you to Woodstock, Vermont where Ramsey Worrell discusses Woodstock High's third straight Division III title that it won on November 9th. The show wraps-up with Todd Dayton, Wyoming's all-time leader in coaching victories. Dayton has been the head coach at Cokeville High School for 34 years, and his team is going after its 19th title during his reign this weekend against Lusk High School. Cokeville, which plays in Wyoming's Class 1A - 11 Man classification, has a population of 500 residents. |
11-07-13 Show This edition of High School Football America features two of the top two teams from different ends of the size spectrum. First, host Jeff Fisher journeys to Texas to talk with DeSoto head coach Claude Mathis whose team is ranked #5 nationally by High School Football America. Then from the the big state of Texas, Fisher heads north to tiny Connecticut to speak with Ansonia High School head coach Tom Brockett. Ansonia, playing in the state's smallest classification has won 18 state championships - four of them under Brockett. For more information, go to highschoolfootballamerica.com. |
10-31-13 Show On this episode of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with St. Joseph Regional (New Jersey) head football coach Tony Karcich about his team's big game against DePaul. St. Joe's is ranked #9 in the latest High School Football America Top 25. Also on the show, Fisher examines the rest of the Top 25 rankings, plus he looks ahead to the weekend's biggest games. |
10-24-13 Show On this episode of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher takes you on a journey through some of the great interviews on the show's first 94 episodes. For more information go to highschoolfootballamerica.com |
10-17-13 Show On the October 17th edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Jason Negro, head football coach at St. John Bosco (California) about his team's ascension into the national rankings. Also on the show, Fisher talks about FloridaHSFootball.com founder Joshua Wilson about Week 8 of the Florida high school season with a look ahead to the postseason. The final guest on the show is Marie Klein a cheerleader at in Ohio. High School Football America columnist Trish Hoffman talks with Klein who recently set a new Guiness Book of Records record for consecutive back handsprings. |
10-10-13 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with author Drew Jubera about Friday's night's Winnersville Classic showdown between Valdosta and Lowndes in South Georgia. Jubera is the author of Must Win, a national best seller on the 2010 Valdosta high school football season. Also on the show, Fisher talks with North Central High School (Farmersburg, Indiana) head coach Travis Nolting and his star running back Chase VanSchoyck, who over the last two weekends has broken the state's single-game rushing record with 581 yards and single-game touchdown record with ten TDs. |
10-03-13 Show On the October 3, 2013 edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Jake Olson, the long snapper on the Orange Lutheran football team in Southern California. Olson is a source of inspiration for a wide array of people. Olson plays football and golf for his school even though he is blind. Olson lost he sight from cancer. Also on the show are Clay Folwer and Mark Schoellkopff, the executive producers of an upcoming high school football documentary film titled Signing Day. |
9-26-13 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with MaxPreps.com's Steve Spiewak about this weekend's big games, plus he's joined by sports writer Amy Donaldson of the Deseret News who discusses this Union High School's (Utah) suspension of 41 of players who were suspended for off-the-field disciplinary problems. |
9-12-13-Show On the September 12th edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Lubbock High School head coach Jason Strunk, who writes The Turnaround for us. The blog takes readers inside the Westerners' program that snapped a streak of 37 years without a Texas high school football playoff appearance during the 2012 season. Also on the show, Fisher looks at the latest High School Football America Top 25 and last week's top stat stars. |
9-05-13 Show Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Koni Dole of Huntley Project High School in Montana, who returned to the high school gridiron on August 30th, ten months after having the lower part of his right leg amputated. Dole, who now plays on a prosthetic athletic blade, scored two touchdowns and record one sack on defense. Also on the show is Montini Catholic head coach Chris Andriano, who has led his school to four straight Illinois high school football state championships. For more info, go to highschoolfootballamerica.com. |
8-15-13 Show Talking California and Texas high school football on the August 15th edition of High School Football America. Host Jeff Fisher talks with Gary Joseph, head coach of Katy High School in Texas. Katy is Texas' defending Class 5A Division II champs and the Tigers are ranked #7 in High School Football America's Preseason Top 25. Also joining Fisher on the show is Jaime Ortiz, head coach at San Clemente High School in Southern California. Ortiz talks about his program that has more than two dozen former players at the collegiate level this year, including two NCAA Division 1 starting quarterbacks - Chase Rettig at Boston College and Travis Wilson at Utah. Fisher's final guest is Derrick Oien of ScoreStream.com, which will be helping highschoolfootballamerica.com with its scores in various states around the country this fall. |
8-08-13 Show On this edition of High School Football America, Jeff Fisher unveils HSFA's 2013 Preseason High School Football Top 25. Fisher chats with Dale Mueller, head coach of Kentucky's Highlands High School. Highlands, ranked #23 in High School Football America's Preseason Top 25, is going after its seventh straight state title this year and is second on America's all-time wins list when it comes to high school football. Also on the show is Darrin Gray, who works with Tony Dungy's All Pro Dad program and is the co-author of the book The Jersey Effect that he wrote with former Indianapolis Colts punter Hunter Smith. |
8-01-13 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Dax McGregor, who less than a year ago, suffered a traumatic brain injury during an 8-Man high school football game in Southern California. McGregor, who played at Cornerstone Christian, has not only recovered from the injury that nearly cost him his life, but he's trying to return to the field as a kicker. Also on is Chris Hughes of CarolinaPreps.com. Chris talks about North and South Carolina football. The final guest on the show is Justin Zank, the head football coach at Voznesenka High School in Alaska. This tiny school only has 38 students in the high school, but they have enough players to put an 11-man program on the field. The Cougars are "the smallest" team in America playing 11-man football. |
7-25-13 Show Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Lubbock High School (Texas) head coach Jason Strunk about the upcoming 2013 season. Strunk writes "The Turnaround" for highschoolfootballamerica.com. Fisher then talks with former Northern Lehigh High School (Pennsylvania) head coach Jim Tkach is helping others six years after his son Bo Tkach, a two-time all-state quarterback, committed suicide. Learn more about the Bo Tkach Foundation at www.botkach.com. |
7-18-13 Show On the July 18th edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Josh Floyd, head coach at Shiloh Christian High School in Arkansas. Floyd talks about the school's storied football past that began when he was the school's record-setting quarterback under Gus Malzahn, who is now the head coach at Auburn. Also on the show is Bridget Algeo-Letukas, who is producing a documentary called Football Family about her father Jim Algeo, who spent 44 years as the head coach at Lansdale Catholic in suburban Philadelphia |
6-27-13 Show Technology takes center stage on the June 27th edition of High School Football America. Host Jeff Fisher talks with Hudl.com CEO David Graff about the cutting edge internet technology that has revolutionized how coaches breakdown practice and game film. After speaking with Graff, Fisher discusses The Debris Inhibitor Razur with Joey Teichert, whose company Southern Sport has developed a patented sock that does many things, including keeping crumb rubber from Field Turf out of players' shoes. Fisher's final guest is Jim Cantafio, head coach at Cedar Cliff High School in Pennsylvania, who is the only coach in the Keystone State to have coached two quarterbacks to be invited to the Elite 11 Quarterback Competition. Coach Cantafio talks about Virginia Tech recruit Andrew Ford. Editor's Note: Enter this code - HSFBARZR1 - at www.tdirazur.com for a 20% on your order for the The Debris Inhibitor Razur. |
6-20-13 Show On the June 20th edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Greg Tepper, Associate Editor of Dave Campbell's Texas Football, about the release of the 57th edition of the preseason magazine that's known as "The Bible of Texas Football". Also on the show is Drew Sarachman, offensive coordinator at Archbishop Hoban in northeast Ohio talking about his High School Football America blog called Return to Glory. Fisher's third guest is Bruce Boettcher of After the Game Insurance, who discusses his company that focuses on providing insurance coverage to blue-chip high school football prospects. |
6-13-13 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with EasternPAFootball.com and WesternPAFootball.net founder Dave Mika about the top teams in Pennsylvania in 2013 and Saturday's Big 33 Classic in Hershey. Also on the show is Matthew Glick, a top-rated kicker and soccer player at Harvard-Westlake in Southern California, who is trying to bounce-back from a serious ACL injury that placed him on the sidelines for his sophomore season in 2012. |
6-06-13 Show On this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with MaxPreps' Steve Spiewak about his Early Contenders National Top 25 poll that was released earlier this week. Also on the show is Bill Godsil, the new head football coach at Sturgis Brown High School in South Dakota. Godsil takes-over a program that at one point had lost 79 straight games and only had one win in 2012. Coach Godsil will be a featured blogger during the 2013 season at highschoolfootball.com, taking readers inside the rebuilding of his program. |
5-30-13 Show On the May 30th High School Football America radio show, host Jeff Fisher talks with author Dwayne Kremko, who wrote the book Falcons: The Lost Year. The story examines the 1960 season at Divine Child High School in Dearborn, Michigan - the first year of varsity football at the school. That first year ended with the Falcons beating winning a catholic league championship while going undefeated without a senior on the roster - the only time that has happened in the history of high school football in America. Also on the show is former New York Giant and two-time Super Bowl champ Mark Collins. The former NFL cornerback is now helping student-athletes get noticed through his company 2fivesports.com. |
5-23-13 Show On the this edition of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with Brian Wical, the new head coach of Cardinal Stritch High School outside of Toledo, Ohio. Wical, at 25 years old, is one of the youngest high school head football coaches in the country. Fisher's other guest is John Loose, assistant football coach at Lafayette College is Easton, Pennsylvania, who talks about his upcoming Lauren's First and Goal football camp on June 2nd. This is the 10th anniversary of the largest high school football camp on the east coast that has raised over $1 million for pediatric cancer research. |
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. 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. |
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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 ( |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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). |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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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. |
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. |
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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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. |