Kings Football

Join Red Helmet Club and support your 2010 Kings Knights football program.   Membership starts at $35 for individuals, $60 for families and $5 for KYO Football players.    Click on the attached form to learn more and join today!  2010_RHC_Membership_Form

Kings Football Red Helmet Clubs invites all members to the Season Opening Banquet on Friday August 13th at 7PM at the Kings Island Resort and Conference Center.

Please RSVP to Michael Koerbel (513-225-4474) or to mkoerbel@aol.com. 

Enjoy an evening of Door Prizes, Split the Pot and Appetizers, this years Guest Speaker will be Mt. St. Joseph Head Football Coach Rod Huber.

Coach Huber Background:  Rod Huber returns in 2010 for his 11th season as the Lions’ head coach. Huber, who directed the team’s defense in 2007-08, has 27 years of coaching at the high school and college level and has been on the Mount football staff since the program’s inception in 1990. Coach Huber led the program to a three straight HCAC championship (2004-2006), and the Lions 9-2 overall mark last season was their eighth straight season of a .500 or better record. The Lions claimed the 2009 HCAC championship with a 7-0 mark, their fourth HCAC title in program history, which enabled them to qualify to the NCAA Division III playoffs, marking their fifth overall appearances in the post-season tournament. The Mount is also the only team in HCAC history to record three straight conference titles. In addition, Huber was named HCAC Coach of the Year last fall, his third such honor.    To learn more about Coach Huber visit Mt St Joe’s football website.   

Former Knight Michael Kidder,  2008 FAVC Defensive Player of the Year is a member of Coach Hubers 2010 Squad.

Every match-up will be featured all week on FOX19, FOX19.com, TriStateFootball.com and QueenCityHigh.com with extensive game coverage including:

      LIVE 30 minute show aired on FOX19 from your school on game night

      In-school Pep Rally at visiting school each Friday on FOX19’s morning show

      Game will be promoted daily during FOX19 newscast during week of game

      Game will be streamed LIVE on FOX19.com, TriStateFootball.com and QueenCityHigh.com

     Pregame articles and interviews will be ran all week long across network of websites

     In-depth highlights on FOX19’s Final Quarter following game

     Complete game recap and video postgame interviews on all websites

In addition to the on-air and multi-media coverage of the game, we will also set up our special tailgate section on-site at the game.

See the announcement on TriStateFootball.com.

While at Tri-StateFootball.com check out the articles by Greg Shoemaker on the upcoming 2010 Season preview and the Rising Star series article on Junior Running Back  Jamire Westbook

And check-out the entire 2010 Varsity schedule on Kingsfootball.com

Sophomore Running Back sensation Jamire Westbrook received the first class of 2012 football scholarship offer from the University of Cincinnati.     He hasn’t even stepped on the field for his junior season and his accomplishments are already some of the Tri-state’s best. Westbrook has 1,684 yards rushing, 582 yards receiving, 99 passing yards, 248 return yards, 12 rushing touchdowns, two passing touchdowns and five receiving scores. 

Check out ESPN’s article on Jamire’s offer from UC and keep an eye on Jamire’s future scholarship offers at Rivals.com.

The King’s football community congratulates Jamire on this outstanding recognition and opportunity!

The “Kings Football Camo Hat” that was for sale during Mulch Day can be ordered by sending Coach Cook an email of how many you would like.  Cost is $20 and checks can be made out to Kings Football.

Email Coach Cook at johncook54@roadrunner.com.   Hats will take a couple weeks to arrive and Coach Cook will let you know when they have arrived.

The Kings Football Program launched the 2010 Mulch Madness Saturday morning at 7:30.     18000 bags of mulch and 10 hours later it was delivered!     The major fund raiser for the football program and a key spring team building opportunity went off flawlessly Saturday thanks to outstanding turnout and contribution by players and parents 7th grade through 11th grade in the program.  

  Coach Olds would like to extend special thanks to:

A very special thanks go out to Bill and Tina Rice for heading up this great event. Together, they logged over 30 hours of research and data entry. Their efforts have helped this sale to be efficient and more profitable than it has ever been before.

Another huge thanks goes out to Mike and Dawn Koerbel for organizing the food and providing all of the advertisement and communications over the past 3 months.

Once again thanks to Mr. Gasper, the principal at Columbia for the use of his facility.

To Mr. Dorso and John Morrell meats for the donation for practically the entire meat product the boys consumed at the two meals.

Mike Bush and Bush Leasing for providing the grilling van,

Rob Patterson and his 2 vendors at Sunbelt Rentals and The Equipment Depot for the donation of the 2 fork trucks.

And lastly, to Mike Handorf and Sharon Nursery for providing great service of the Mulch product itself!

On Thursday February 18th at the Hilton Netherlands Plaza  in downtown Cincinnati, Trey Knecht was recognized as the Anthony Munoz Defensive Lineman of the Year for Division 2 presented by Old Spice.  

Trey completed an outstanding 2009 season moving to Defensive lineman this season and having immediate success.   Trey lead the FAVC in tackles in 2009, was awarded Kings football Most Improved Defensive Player of the year, was first team all FAVC, 1st team All-City, 2nd Team All Southwest Ohio and 1st Team All Academic All-Ohio.    

 Coach Andy Olds admired Trey’s willingness to put the team first this season.   Coach Olds had this to say about Trey’s success this season,  ” Playing defensive end for us his senior year was not Trey’s first choice. The previous year he played outside linebacker and was looking to use that year of learning to set up for a great senior season for him. But we asked Trey to play a position that would help Kings Football. We did not move him because he could not play outside linebacker but because we need him to fill a void in our overall team scheme defensively. We simply asked Trey to put the “goal” of our team first and his “personal” goal second. As a result of Trey’s willingness to choose his “team” over “himself”, he would record what most players would regard as ‘a dream senior season”. He was first Team All Conference, voted Most Improved Defensive Player by the coaching staff, All District, All City, Academic all Ohio, and his latest accomplishment was being selected at the Anthony Munoz Defensive Lineman of the Year in Division 2. If future players in the Kings Football program follow Trey’s example of unselfishness, our program could reach heights never seen by any Kings team in the history of our program!”

To learn more about February 18th Award banquet visit the Anthony Munoz Foundation web-site.

To review more on Trey’s contribution to the 2009 campaign enjoy his highlight video on ScoutOhio.com and links to his Senior page on KingsFootball.com .

The Kings Knights football team was named All Ohio Academic,  ranking 12th out of over 700 football teams in the state and the only team recognized in the region.     The award is granted to the school with the top GPA out of 22 Varsity Letterman.    Kings combined GPA was 3.71.  Top Teams included:

 AVON LAKE

DUBLIN SCIOTO

MT. VERNON

NEW ALBANY

ARCHBOLD

CANTON GLEN OAK

WADSWORTH

OLENTANGY

ANTHONY WAYNE

KINGS

HUDSON

SIDNEY

NORTH ROYALTON

CANTON MCKINLEY

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

LEXINGTON

MAYFIELD

ST. EDWARD

OLMSTED FALLS

WESTERVILLE SOUTH

In addition, Trey Knecht was selected as All Ohio Academic for his combined GPA/On Field Contribution.    Trey also received All Conference, All District and All City honors for his on field Contribution in 2009.    Trey ranked 9th in the state of 111 honored and over 35,000 Ohio High School Football Players!!!     You can check out the entire list at OHSFCA.com

Great Job Trey and the Kings Knight Football Program!!

The Kings football team banquet was held in late November at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Center.    Coach Olds and the Kings Coaching Staff recognized outstanding on field, classroom and off field accomplishments and volunteers that make the football program one of the premier programs in the area. 

Top 2009 Award Winners included:

FAVC All Conference:

1st Team – Jamire Westbrook, Trey Knecht, Sean Horan

2nd Team – Jake Gibson, Drew Esler

JV Red, White and Blue Award winner – Ben Bennett

Varsity Red, White and Blue Award winner – Matt Koerbel

Most Improved Defensive Player – Trey Knecht

Most Improved Offensive Player – Kennedy Cook

Offensive MVP – Jamire Westbrook

Defensive MVP – Sean Horan

Red Helmet Scholarship Award – Kyle Kreutz

Eric McCall Citizenship Award – Billy Bruns

Kings Knight Alumni Collin McCafferty who made his second BCS Bowl apperance this year was one of twelve UC Bearcats honored as All Big East All Academic.     Learn more about Collin’s academic accomplishments at UC Bearcats Football website