Robert de la salle accomplishments

Member of varsity track and football teams.
Chaney State 1961; Indiana University MS
Played football and basketball; captain of football team junior and senior years.
Played semi-professional football with Calumet Steelers, Joliet Explorers, Chicago Owls, and Lake County Rifles while also teaching and coaching.
Wife, Gwen; three daughters
Coaching Experience: Head football coach at Gary West Side HS 40 years 1968-2008, having started the program; member of 1972 State Runner-up basketball coaching staff; member of 1972 and 1977-1979 State Champion track coaching staffs; head coach of the 2005 State 5th Place boys track team; also coached wrestling.

Coaching Honors: Coached or mentored over 10,000 student athletes in his coaching career; mentored, trained, and was head coach to over 30 eventual head coaches who went on to win state championships in other states, such as Oklahoma and California, as well as many eventual and current college level coaches across the country; longest running tenure of any coach in his region; had 10 Northwestern Conference Wrestling Cha

Chris Merritt (American football)

American football coach (born 1969)

Chris Merritt (born December 7, 1969) is an American football coach and former player. He was named to the position as the head football coach at Bryant University in December 2018. He came to Bryant after serving 18 years as head coach at Christopher Columbus High School in Miami, Florida, posting a record of 165–49 in 18 season there. He also served five years at Thiel College as the defensive backs coach and special teams coordinator and two years at Eastern Illinois University as an assistant coach.

Merritt played college football at Indiana University Bloomington where he was four year letter winner. He played professionally in Sweden Superserien in 1994 and 1995 seasons. He then played and was a coach in the German Football League with the Hamburg Blue Devils winning the German Bowl and Eurobowl championships. He then coached the Stuttgart Scorpions.

Head coaching record

College

High school

Year Team Overall ConferenceStanding Bowl/playoffs
Christopher

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Lawrence “Larry” Joseph Onesti, in his own words, “did it all.” He was a husband, father, coach, researcher, professor, explorer, colleague, and friend to many. He was born in Chicago on November 12, 1938, to Inez (Battistello) and Lorenzo Onesti. He died on Monday, July 9, of complications from emphysema. He was 79.

Larry attended Assumption College High School in Windsor, Ontario, and was awarded many honors there, including a Kiwanis award for outstanding high school student in the Chicago area. It was at Assumption that he would begin to play football, a sport that would be part of his life for many years. Larry then went on to college studies at Northwestern University, where he played linebacker and was one of the first football players to make Academic All American, and was later inducted into the Northwestern Hall of Fame. At Northwestern, he studied Education and met his future wife, June Skowronski. After graduating from Northwestern in 1962, he was drafted by the Chicago Bears and the Houston Oil

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