Jeremy Zimmer & Steve Smith earn Payments-ADPRO Sports activities highschool coach of the week honors

The Buffalo Payments and ADPRO Sports activities are proud to as soon as once more associate to acknowledge among the finest coaches that Western New York has to supply by the 2022 Excessive College Soccer Coach of the Week Program.

The Payments and ADPRO Sports activities will probably be awarding varsity head deal with soccer coaches with the Coach of the Week Award to spotlight not solely their staff’s achievements on the sphere but in addition among the work they’re doing off the sphere of their communities. We are going to announce winners from the Buffalo and Rochester Areas over the course of 11 weeks, with each area’s Coach of the 12 months being named in the course of the Buffalo Payments vs New England Patriots sport in January of 2023 at Highmark Stadium.

Every Coach of the Week winner will obtain an $1,000 grant from the Buffalo Payments and ADPRO Sports activities. The respective Coach of the 12 months winners may also obtain an extra $1,000 for his or her packages. Winners will probably be chosen by a panel of native highschool soccer specialists.

Candy Residence coach Jeremy Zimmer has been named the week two Buffalo Area Coach of the Week after he led the Panthers to a 49-15 win over North Tonawanda this weekend. Coach Zimmer is returning to the sideline in 2022 after a medical incident compelled him to overlook a part of the 2021 season.

The Panthers trailed 7-6 after the primary quarter however exploded for 28 factors within the second quarter to drag away early. Coach Zimmer and the Panthers are at present 2-0 this season.

Coach Zimmer has been teaching soccer at Candy Residence for 25 seasons, spending time on the modified, freshman, JV, and varsity ranges. He was a part of a employees that received NYS championships in 2008 and 2009, and state runner-up in 2012.

Coach Zimmer was named the varsity head coach in 2018 and began with a squad of simply 18 gamers. The Panthers completed 0-8 that season. He rapidly set about rebuilding this system once more and the next yr, Candy Residence completed 4-4 and 3-2 within the 2020 Covid season. Final yr, the Panthers completed 6-3 and misplaced within the Class A playoffs.

Coach Zimmer has the gamers in his soccer program concerned in a number of neighborhood packages, together with a big flag soccer league for the district’s elementary college students.

As varsity head coach, Coach Zimmer volunteers his time with this system all yr. Beginning in Could, he began assembly together with his staff 4 instances every week. In preparation for the season, the staff was within the weight room 3 times every week, participated in 7 v 7 tournaments in Buffalo and Rochester, and partakes in camps with Clarence and Ken West.

Except for teaching, Coach Zimmer is coming into his twenty fifth yr as a trainer within the Candy Residence College district.

Bolivar-Richburg coach Steve Smith has been named the week two Rochester Area Coach of the Week after the Wolverines defeated Wellsville 42-24 this previous weekend and Crimson Jacket, who has gone undefeated the previous two seasons, in week one. The Wolverines are 2-0 on the season and that is this system’s first yr collaborating in 8-man soccer in Part V.

The Wolverines went up 36-0 over the Lions within the first half and whereas the Lions began to struggle again within the second half by placing up 24 factors, it wasn’t sufficient to surpass the Wolverines.

Coach Smith is in his eighth season because the varsity head coach of the Wolverines however has spent over 25 years teaching soccer at Bolivar-Richburg. He additionally serves on the Part V Soccer Committee. Off the sphere, Coach Smith teaches sixth grade world historical past and science, and has taught on the college for 33 years.

Throughout the summer season, plenty of Wolverine gamers volunteer as assistant coaches with Bolivar-Richburg Youth Soccer.

Within the Wolverines soccer program, Coach Smith focuses on limiting contact all through the week throughout observe to forestall accidents, whereas additionally using and instructing protected tackling strategies to his gamers to arrange them for gameplay.

In 2021, the staff was acknowledged with the New York State Scholar Athlete award.