North Shore Titans

Coaches

Coaching is the single largest factor that sets North Shore Titans apart from other youth football programs. It is difficult to recruit and retain excellent youth football coaches. That is something we work very hard at. We have 45 coaches this season and they all must pass a mandatory background check and Pop Warner youth football training course. We have a 5 to 1 player to coach ratio. NSYF Coaches attend many clinics and training sessions annually to sharpen and improve their coaching skills. We also make it fun for the coaches and demand that the coaches in turn make it fun for the players.
Fred Miller who is a 14 year NFL veteran and former Chicago Bear (Tennessee Titans and St. Louis Rams with two Super Bowl rings) is the head of coaching operations and along with Mark Rice makes program coaching decisions. All teams train under the same practice regimen, philosophy and playbook. This is a carefully crafted system to be age appropriate and based on hundreds of hours of study, consultation, and research with collaboration of some of the finest football minds in the nation.  

2012 Head Coaches

Mark Rice - HC                         mark@nstitans.com
Fred Miller - HC UNL                fred@nstitans.com
Huy Huyng - Asst UNL
Jeff Lowell - HC JM                  jeff@nstitans.com   
Billy Kerstein - HC JM               billy@nstitans.com
Steve Pemberton - HC PW       steve@nstitans.com  
Ernie Torain - HC JPW             ernie@nstitans.com
Scott McCabe - HC  MM3        mccabe@nstitans.com
Brian Moran - HC MM4            moran@nstitans.com
Sandy Feldman - Asst MM3
Jon Pranian - HC TM                pranian@nstitans.com
Coley Frucci - Asst TM


Along with these head coaches we have 37 additional assistant coaches that are assigned to individual teams. Each team will have 1 or 2 head coaches as well as several assistant coaches. Practices are broken down into position skills and the players have the opportunity to work with coaches from other teams on specific training methods on a specific skill, position and technique. 

Additional trainers visit from time to time to help the boys on these specific skills such as QB trainers, Speed and Agility trainers, HS and college coaches... These include former NFL players and professional skills trainers.

A huge part of coaching is the life lessons we impart to the players and we have weekly character building lessons that the coaches help teach as well as awards. We also hold our coaches out to be role models and adhere to the Positive Coaching Alliance. -    www.positivecoach.org 

 

Tools for Parents

Your child's youth sports experiences may greatly influence their trajectory through life. Lessons available for the taking from youth and high school sports -- teamwork, commitment, persistence, overcoming adversity, empathy, leadership -- can help your children become productive, contributing members to our society.

Even if you need some of the tools in this section to help you and your children through a challenging situation with a coach, your persistence in focusing on life lessons can create a positive youth sports experience, leading to a lifetime of health and fitness, coping skills, insights and foresight that can benefit future generations. Your children need you and their coaches to help them process life lessons along the way.

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  • Coach-Parent Partnership Establishing an early positive relationship with your children's coaches is key to helping your children gain all they can from youth sports. These pointers will help you and the coaches get onto the same page in terms of the experience you want your children to have. Download (PDF)
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