GEORGE MESSICH
2014 – FOOTBALL
Mapletown High School
Potomac State Jr. College / University of Pittsburgh
Mapletown High School
- 3 year letterman in football, making All County and All Conference
- 3 year letterman in basketball, starting on the 1972 WPIAL championship team
- 1 year letterman in baseball
Potomac State
- First team junior college All American
- All Conference and All Regional
- Team captain as a sophomore
University of Pittsburgh
- 2 year letterman
- Starting offensive tackle on Pitt’s 1976 National Championship team
- Offensive lineman of the week 3 times during the 1976 season
- Selected captain for the Pitt / West Virginia game as a senior
Coaching Career
- Head coach: Mapletown High School – 1978 to 1981
- Assistant coach: Waynesburg High School and Mapletown High School
- Head coach: Mapletown High School – 1987 to present
- Total of 30 years in coaching
- Became a member of the Century Club with 100th win in 2009
- Named “Small School Coach of the Year” by the Herald Standard in 2001
- Named “Coach of the Year” in 2005 by his peers in the Tri-County South Football Conference
- Selected as head coach of the 2007 South Team that won the Tri-County All Star Classic
- 3 time assistant coach for the Tri-County All Star Classic
- Inducted into the Tri-County Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 2013 as part of the first class to permit active coaches
- Also served as an assistant coach on the high school and junior high school level in basketball and softball
- Co-Athletic Director 10 years