Manfredi was a three-sport star for the Hazleton High School Mountaineers, graduating in 1970 and going on to play tight end at Syracuse.
One of his Hazleton teammates was Joe Maddon, manager of the Tampa Bay Rays.
Manfredi has won 188 games at Overland in Aurora, had his team in three big-school title games, coached multiple All-Americans and all-staters and was The Denver Post coach of the year in 1993 after winning the Class 6A championship.
Aurora coaches Justin Hoffman (Gateway) and Dave Gonzales (Rangeview) will institute the Anvil Trophy, a travelling prize held for a year by the winning team.
Gonzales secured an old anvil from an ironworker in Longmont and had it steam-blasted. A school art teacher will spruce it up with school colors and helmet logos.
The two district programs, now together in the 5A Central Metro League, will play Sept. 4.
He was issued No. 44 in Lobos camp, the number adorned by Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher as a New Mexico safety.
It’s interesting — Harris has an authentic Lobos No. 44 jersey while everyone else has to shell out $79.99, the price of an Urlacher throwback replica.
New to the staff is Tony Federico, who is working with the Hawks during the offseason of the Colorado Crush. Before the Crush, he was the strength and conditioning coach at Colorado State University.
At Northglenn in 1977, Federico was The Denver Post Gold Helmet winner, Colorado’s top senior player, scholar and citizen.
Consider Poudre, where Steve Bradley has taken over as head coach after serving as an assistant for 26 seasons, most of them to Rich Yonker, now an Impalas’ coordinator.
Yonker is godfather to Bradley’s children.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” head coach Mark Robinson said.
Never underestimate even one vowel. The son’s spelling is correct; the father dropped the I for obvious pronunciation purposes on television as he long ago realized saying Bienemann is a lot easier than reading or spelling it.
