2008 VARSITY SCHEDULE

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(CANCELLED)

(Senior Day)

2008 JUNIOR VARSITY SCHEDULE

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Head Coach

Andy Maddix

Coach Maddix is a graduate of Yorktown High School, New York where he was an All-Westchester County first team selection as a pitcher and an infielder in 1989. At Division III Oswego State (New York) he was a 2-year team captain and a 1993 All-SUNYAC infielder. In 1994 he began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, followed by a stint in 1996 as a 9^th grade assistant coach at North Allegheny. After a year teaching at the Kildonan School in New York, he returned to NA as an Assistant Varsity Coach, a position he held until the 2005. As an assistant, Coach Maddix was a part of the 2000 State Championship and the 2003 and 2005 WPIAL Championship teams. In 2006, he began his head coaching career at Vincentian Academy where his Royals were Section Champions and set a school record for regular season wins at 13-6. 2007 saw another winning season and a trip to the playoffs. For the past three summers Coach Maddix has also been an Assistant Coach for the Allegheny Athletics, a collegiate summer league team. This is his first year as the Head Varsity Coach at North Allegheny. He has been a Social Studies teacher at the Senior High since 1997. He resides in Scott Township with his wife Karen and their two sons Sean (3) and Tyler (1).

CONTACT COACH MADDIX

Outfield/First Base Coach

Gary Metro

Coach Metro and his wife Marian reside in McCandless.  Gary is employed by North Allegheny as an elementary school teacher and works at Hosack Elementary.  For the past 15 years he has been a coach in the North Allegheny program , including the last seven as a Varsity Assistant.  He's also had experience coaching the 9th. Grade and Junior Varsity levels within the North Allegheny Baseball Program.  He is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School and St. Bonaventure University.

Pitching/Catching Coach

Harry Yeakel

Coach Yeakel and his wife Shannon reside in Wexford.  He is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he received his undergraduate degree in Elementary Education.  He has also gone on to receive his master’s degree in Reading from Slippery Rock University.  Harry has played catcher at both high school and college levels.  He is currently an Instructional Support Teacher at Franklin, Hosack and Peebles Elementary schools.  Over the past 6 years he has been an assistant coach at the Varsity level.  During those six years he has served as a catching and pitching coach.  He also in the past two years has coached the Allegheny Athletics a collegiate summer team.   Prior to coaching at NA Coach Yeakel has had coaching experience with the Junior and Senior American Legion Team in Norristown, Pennsylvania where he went to High School.

CONTACT COACH YEAKEL

Infield/Catching Coach

Buddy McKay

Coach McKay played high school ball … catcher … and then went on to graduate from the University of Mississippi as a Political Science/Spanish double major.

I asked Coach McKay a few questions to help us get to know him a little better ... here’s what he had to say …

What is your current occupation in addition to coaching? Supervising Baierl Center, Painting Contractor, Lifetime Student

Married? Pets? No. Three dogs: Rocky, a german shepherd, Stahla, a pitbull and Penny, a beagle.

Favorite Music on your ipod? Any music that I can understand the words to, but not on the ipod. I’m old school, I still listen to cd’s.

Where can you be found on your day off? In the park, walking my dog or fishing.

What’s the one thing the players will most often hear you say? Push it.

Favorite food? Filet Mignon Favorite vacation spot? Any European city.

Hitting Coach

Bill Stoops

Coach Stoops comes to North Allegheny as the primary hitting instructor after 8 successful years as the Head Coach of the Deer Lakes Lancers. He has also been both a JV and varsity coach at Franklin Regional and Valley High Schools. He also spent 4 years as the Co-Head Coach at CCAC Boyce College as well as 3 years as an assistant coach at Penn State – New Kensington. In the summers Coach Stoops has been an assistant coach for the Murrysville Legion team, the Murrysville Maulers and the Allegheny Athletics. His playing experience includes time with Blue Field Blairsville Colts, Murrysville Semi-Pro, and Murrysville Legion teams. He resides in Plum with his wife of 26 years, Mary Ann, and their dog Rex.

First base/Conditioning/Scouting Coach

Nate Tengowski

This is Coach Tengowski's 3rd. year coaching baseball after having coached at Vincentian Academy with Coach Maddix for the past 2 years. 

Prior to joining Coach Maddix at Vincentian, he was also the head coach of a team in the Daily News League in McKeesport for 3 years.

For the past 2 years, Coach Tengowski has been the head football coach for the 9th. grade team at NAI.  Previous to that, he coached college football at Westminster College where he specialized as a QB coach for 1 year and OL coach for 1 year.

Pitching Coach

Derek Blyzwick

This is Derek's first year coaching at North Allegheny.  He just finished up his student teaching experience in the fall here at NA, receiving a degree in Health and Physical Education from Slippery Rock University this past December.  He played baseball and football at near-by Moon High School where he was the starting quarterback for 2 years and All-District selection in 2002. A starting pitcher at Moon for 3 years, Coach Blyzwick won back to back state championships (2001 and 2002)and was the winning pitcher in the State Championship game his senior year (2002). After accepting a scholarship to play baseball at the University of Pittsburgh, he left half way through the school year and transferred to Slippery Rock University.  At Slippery Rock, he lettered all four years as a starting pitcher and was named PSAC first-team all conference in both his junior and senior years.  In his senior year he was also named captain by team mates and coaches.  Derek currently resides in Moon.

Pitching Coach

Todd Erdos

Matt Butler

Outfield/First Base Coach

Coach Butler also began his baseball career while at North Allegheny.  He was the starting centerfielder from 2001-2003 and All Conference for three years.  He was named to the All-PG North team as a Senior.  In 2000, as a Freshman, Coach Butler was a member of the State Championship Team.  He also was a member of the 2003 WPIAL Championship Team as a Senior.  In addition to baseball, Coach Butler also played Tiger Basketball from 2000-2002.

Upon graduating from North Allegheny, Coach Butler attended Kent State University for one year on a Baseball scholarship.  Following that year, he transferred and graduated from Gannon University in December 2007, with a degree in Elementary and Special Education.  While at Gannon, he accepted a Football scholarship and lettered in that sport for three consecutive years.  Two of the years he captained and started for the team as a quarterback.  At Gannon, he presently holds various school records in Football.

Recently, Coach Butler completed his student teaching at North Allegheny (fall 2007).  He was the Head Coach of the 7th. grade Carson Middle School Boys Basketball Team and the Assistant Coach of the Carson Middle School Football Team (fall 2007).

Today, Coach Butler resides in Franklin Park.