The Buffalo Bills and ADPRO Sports are proud to partner again to recognize some of the best coaches Western New York has to offer through the 2022 High School Coach of the Week program.
The Bills and ADPRO Sports will honor varsity head football coaches with the Coach of the Week Award to highlight not only their team’s accomplishments on the field, but also some of the work they do outside the camp in their communities. We will announce the winners of the Buffalo and Rochester Regions over the course of 11 weeks, with the Coach of the Year from both regions being named during the Buffalo Bills vs. New England Patriots game in January 2023 at Highmark Stadium.
Each Coach of the Week winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship from the Buffalo Bills and ADPRO Sports. The respective Coach of the Year winners will also receive an additional $1,000 for their programs. Winners will be selected by a panel of local high school football experts.
Buffalo Region Coach of the Week #8
Buffalo Region Coach of the Week # 8
Albion coach David Skrip was named Buffalo Region Coach of the Week for week seven after rallying his Purple Eagles to a 26-20 victory over arch-rival Medina last week It was the 124th time the teams have played — they’ve played every year since 1898. See the article : ‘First Kill’ showrunner speaks out after series cancellation: Netflix failed to market ‘compelling elements’.
Medina had entered the game 7-0 and ranked 4th in NYS. Albion fell behind 14-0 at the half but coach Skrip told his players to stay focused.
“Just keep believing in each other,” he said. “Keep playing hard and take it one game at a time.”
Albion got on the scoreboard when Javon Jones ran 8 yards for a TD to pull the Eagles within 14-6. Medina pulled ahead 20-6 in the third quarter, but Albion answered when QB Amari Jones threw a 40-yard TD pass to Kwame Riley and Albion went up 20-12. Later in the 3rd quarter, Javon Jones ran 7 yards for a TD and Albion trailed 20-18. With just 1:30 left in the fourth quarter, Albion started a drive on their own 30. The Eagles drove to the Medina 6-yard line with :49 left when Javon Jones ran for his 3rd TD of the night to give Albion his. before leading to 26-18. On Medina’s first possession, Dallas Ecker intercepted the pass at the 50-yard line to seal the win.
Coach Skrip coached Albion for 7 seasons. He was named head coach ahead of the 2021 season and led Albion to a 6-3 record and a playoff spot last season.
Albion is now 6-2 and will play Pioneer in the first round of the Class B playoffs on Friday.
Coach Skrip’s varsity players are active in the school community, leading a Big Brother program where varsity players are introduced to younger students to provide guidance and act as mentors. Coach Skrip also runs a strength and conditioning program over the summer for 7th to 12th grade athletes in the Albion program.
Off the field, Skrip teaches 8th-grade Social Studies at Albion.
Rochester Region Coach of the Week #8
Rochester Region Coach of the Week # 8
U-Prep head coach Isiah Young was named the week eight Rochester Coach of the Week after leading the Griffins to a 30-6 victory over Rush-Henrietta. On the same subject : It’s all coming to Amazon Prime Video in July. U-Prep finished the regular season with an 8-0 record and won the AA regular season title.
RB Christopher Jean led a solid ground attack as he ran 9 times for 111 yards. QB Noah Hill completed 16 of 24 passes for 218 yards and 3 TDs.
Young coached at U-Prep for 3 seasons, winning the Section 5 Class A title last fall. After the season, U-Prep was moved up to the Class AA level, despite being an all-boys Charter School with only 216 students. His career record as a coach is 22-3.
Coach Young has his players very active in the community. Six U-Prep captains recently attended a Gun Violence Summit in Rochester to discuss inner-city gun violence issues.
“We need to keep young people talking about these issues,” Young said. “They need to be aware of the situations that cause gun violence.”
Coach Young also takes his players on college tours during the season.
“I want to get these kids to see something different, a place that’s not Rochester,” Young said. “I want them to see that if they take their academics and football seriously, going to college is something they can do.”
“We just load some kids into the school vans and off we go,” he said. “We’ve visited offseason workouts at colleges. We’ve been to prospect camps. The furthest we went was Michigan in 2019. We went to UConn last summer.”
Young has been a teacher at U-Prep for the past four years. The head coach focuses on the importance of academics off the field that have played a role in his team having a 3.18 GPA through week 5 of the season.
Coach Young and his players have a close relationship with the Flower City Panthers Youth organization. This summer, they donated equipment to help with a lack of it. The organization also had a halftime show for the 10 & 11th team during their homecoming to see the youth in our community.
