BRETT MYERS RESIGNS AS POTTSTOWN FOOTBALL COACH
Myers resigns as Pottstown head coach, bound for District 3
Pottstown High School’s football program has had just two coaches draw up the X’s and O’s and other related schemes for at least seven consecutive years. An intriguing statistic when considering the program dates all the way back to when volunteers and students ran the show during the inaugural season in 1898.
Brett Myers, who could’ve been the third when the season kicks off summer camp in two months, won’t be joining the very short list.
The 38-year-old Myers ended his sixyear stay Monday morning after resigning as the Trojans’ head coach.
Myers is reportedly closing in on be-
hired as both the head football coach and dean of students at a District 3 school, which he chose not to name because the appointment will not be official until approved by the school board at its meeting next Monday night.
According to sources, Myers will take over at his alma mater, Middletown High School. Middletown is seeking a football coach after head coach Rob Deibler stepped down on June 4.
Also a graduate of Arkansas State University, Myers guided the Trojans to a 6-6 mark last season, their first .500 or better finish since going 5-5 in 2003.
“The one thing I’m most proud of is that because of the men I worked with and the men I worked for, the (Pottstown) program is much better than it was when we walked in,” Myers said when contacted by The Mercury.
“Working at Pottstown, as a teacher and a coach, was nothing but an outstanding experience. I met so many great kids, worked with so many great men, and was associated with so many great families.”
Myers arrived at Pottstown in 2007. He inherited a program that went 0-11 the previous season and had only won 10 of 44 games since the memorable unbeaten Pioneer Athletic Conference championship run (10-1 overall) in 2002. Despite finishing just one game under .500 in his rookie season, the Trojans didn’t get back to that mark until last fall, when they scored 361 points – the second-most in Pottstown history.
In six seasons with the Trojans, Myers was 15-39 in the PAC-10 and 23-38 overall.
Before coming to Pottstown, Myers spent five years as an assistant to former Daniel Boone great Dennis Iezzi at Exeter High School. He also spent a year as an assistant at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and two years at Pittsburgh-area Summitt Academy after graduating from Arkansas State.
“I’m going to have the opportunity to compete in a different league, and have an opportunity to compete at a school that I’d like to see do better,” Myers said of his prospective job. “It’s a school where they have high expectations.”
*** Dan Weller (1982-87) and the late Bill Rogers (1972-77) were Pottstown head coaches for six years each. The only others to stay longer were the late Heeb Meyers (1941, 1946-66) – who in 22 seasons went 110-83-11), and the late Carroll “Mush” Bechtel (1917-30) – who in 14 seasons went 46-6213. … Pat Connors, director of cocurricular activities at Pottstown, will reportedly post the open position immediately. The Trojans’ new coach will be their ninth since joining the Pioneer Athletic Conference in 1986.