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It’s Bittersweet… A Falcon Football Coach Retires

By Casey Leger in 1991 and spent 15 years with
grade 8 students, coaching multiple
his year’s Charity Bowl was a sports. He first became involved
Tspecial one for Holy Trinity’s with football as a youngster in 1975
Jeff McAllister. In fact, the entire when he played Cornwall Optimist
high school football season will be Minor Football. He’s since coached

remarkable for Coach McAllister: with the Cornwall Mustangs and
He’s retiring from teaching and the Cornwall Wildcats.
from the helm of the Holy Trinity
“My fondest memories of coaching
boys’ football team. “I have been
are the lifelong relationships that
coaching football at HT since the
I have built with my current and
inception of the program in 2006,”
former players,” says McAllister.
says McAllister, “when I transferred
“Back when we began the program,
to HT from St. Andrews to be with
I had four grade nine students play
my son and daughter who were
on our first team ever, and those
starting grade nine at the school,
same four boys played for me for
and to be involved with the new
five years. The growth that I saw
football program.”
in them as players and young men
McAllister started teaching over those five years is something

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Grade: 10
School: St. Joes’
Hometown: Cornwall

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his Panthers junior football coaches. “He
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Dan Lapierre. “He’s a super kid. He
makes blocks, and this is his first year with

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Jayden is impressing his coaches by
making every practice. He plays on that will stay with me forever. They ‘help out’ at HT, but he’s looking
the offensive line, making big runs and were all instrumental in our first forward to what’s ahead. He says,
contributing a touchdown to the junior championship. When it comes to “My wife Tammy and I are avid
Panthers’ 4 and 0 record. teaching, I would have to say the golfers and we enjoy travelling,
memories are very similar. There is so we are looking forward to the
nothing I enjoy more than meeting next stage of our lives together as
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out coming back to mentor or to alike.