Zach Weigel named as head football coach at Sherrard

Zach Weigel was approved as the new head football coach at Sherrard High School at Wednesday’s school board meeting. Currently a teacher at Davenport Central High School, Weigel brings a wealth of coaching experience across multiple levels.

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Zach Weigel named as head football coach at Sharard. This
article is being read by an automated voice brought to
you by Everlet. Zach Weigel was approved as the new
head football coach at Scherard High School at Wednesday's school
board meeting. Currently a teacher at Davenport Central High School,
Weigel brings a wealth of coaching experience across multiple levels.

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He has served as associate head football coach at Davenport
Central as the varsity and JV defensive coordinator, was head
JV coach and defensive coordinator at Keiokok and coached at
Iowa City West and Northwest Junior High in Coralville. Zach
Weigel is a great fit for Sharard football. He is
a young, up and coming coach who we believe can

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grow our program. His competitive mature and passion for the
game are evident in every conversation. I could not be
more pleased with this hire. Lisa Emmendorfer, Sharard Assistant principal
forr Actiorivities, said in a press release. Weigel succeeds Dan McGuire,
who came out of retirement to coach just one year
going two seven. During his first weeks at Charard, Faigel

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plans to focus on building the culture and relationships that
will set a strong foundation for the program. The biggest
thing is you've got to get to know people. Talking
to the staff, talking to the players, administration, community members,
everybody involved. Just trying to get to know the people
is my first objective, he said. We're in the business

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of developing better people as educators and coaches. That's why
most of us get into it. Weigel said, as long
as you're doing the right thing, success is going to
take care of itself. Looking further ahead, Weigel intends to
establish consistent standards for the program. By the spring, we
start building the culture, we start setting the standards that

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we want to have as a program. We start holding
kids accountable, getting more so into the football specific sort
of things. Once we have the chess pieces on the board,
he said. Weigel is eager to work with Charard players
and staff. I'm going to be a really hard worker.
I'm going to be passionate. I understand that coaching isn't
just something you have after school three months of the

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year to get some extra money. He said. It's an
identity that is a big part of who I think
I am as a person, and it's something that I'm
going to pour a lot of time and effort into.
My wife might say too much time and effort sometimes,
but we're in it for the kids and making them
better people, and it's easy to put the work in
when it's not about you. He plans to build on

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the successes already happening in Sharard Athletics, emphasizing consistency, culture,
and core values as he steps into his new role.
I don't think you have to reinvent the wheel. If
something successful is working for the basketball team or the
baseball team, continue to use those sorts of things, he said. Ultimately,
I think our culture is going to come down to
some core values leadership, effort, accountability, and discipline. There's a

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lot of things that go into building a program, and
I'm excited to get started working with the staff and
players over the next eight months before we kick off
the season. A native of Elma, Iowa, We've graduated from
Crestwood High School in twenty thirteen and holds a BA
in political science from the University of Iowa twenty seventeen,
an MA in political science from the University of Illinois

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or Banta Champagne twenty eighteen and an MA in Secondary
Social Studies Education from the University of Iowa twenty nineteen.