Warren Wolf (American football)

Warren Wolf (born in 1929 in Bricktown, New Jersey) is a high school football head coach, and politician who currently is the head coach of Lakewood High School in Lakewood, New Jersey.

Football

Wolf formerly coached the Brick Township High School football team in Brick Township, New Jersey, where he achieved a career record of 361-122-11. Wolf has the most wins of any coach in the history of high school football in New Jersey.[1] As of the start of the 2006 football season, he ranked fourth in the nation of coaches by number of seasons coached and holds the New Jersey record for most years as a football coach.[1][2]

Wolf began his coaching career in 1958 and since that time he has had just three losing seasons. In his 49 seasons at Brick, he has won or shared 24 Shore Conference divisional championships as well 13 state sectional titles (seven of which were awarded before playoffs were instituted).[3]

On December 1, 2008, Wolf officially retired as the head coach of Brick Township High School after 51 seasons.

On January 25, 2010 after one year away from coaching, Wolf was named head coach of Lakewood High School. Wolf will be looking to resurrect what has been one of the worst teams in the Shore Conference for the last decade. Lakewood sits just to the west of Brick, and the two high schools are a few miles apart. The schools used to share a healthy football rivalry, but haven't played each other since Brick defeated Lakewood 65–6 in 2003. The schools are not scheduled to play each other in the 2010 regular season.

Government

Wolf has also been involved in local and state government, serving as the Mayor of Brick Township from 1971 to 1975; a member of the Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1975 to 1981; a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1981 to 1983; and a Brick Township Council member from 1982 to 1993.[3]

Honors and awards

In 2008, Wolf was elected to the New Jersey Sports Writers Association (NJSWA) Hall of Fame.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Winningest football coach at 532 and not about to stop, USA Today, August 30, 2006. The article lists his career record at 345-108-11 as of that date.
  2. ↑ "The Fountain of Youth? Keep Coaching High School Football", The New York Times, July 15, 2007.
  3. 1 2 The gray ghost wishes he could be invisible, Asbury Park Press, November 18, 1999. As of the date of the article, Wolf had coached the team to 23 Shore Conference divisional championships
  4. ↑ He and the other 2008 inductees were inducted into the NJSWA Hall of Fame at the NJSWA's 73rd annual dinner on Sunday, January 25, 2009, at The Pines Manor, in Edison, New Jersey. Barmakian, Ed (January 25, 2009). "New York Mets' David Wright tells New Jersey Sports Writers Association he's excited about World Baseball Classic". NJ.com (New Jersey On-Line LLC). The Star-Ledger. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
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