Bonaventure, Amoroso did his student teaching under Hagreen.īeing older and becoming a parent can change perspective, too. Former Athena coach Don Hagreen had a big impact, too. "The most patient man I've ever known," Jeff says. He says his father, Joe, who coached girls track and cross country at Greece Arcadia, was a big influence on him.
"He's great at taking kids aside and really getting to know them and talking to them about what they need to do to get better," Bob Nally says.Īmoroso played football, basketball and baseball at McQuaid. This spring will be his fourth as Mendon's varsity baseball head coach. Pittsford athletic director Scott Barker says it's a luxury to have "somebody of Jeff's caliber as an assistant." It's more rare these days, too, to have a veteran coach at the lower levels, as Amoroso has done as Mendon's freshman football head coach for five years. "If I could have him as an assistant, I knew I could be successful here."Ĭlick here to go to our Coaches Who Care page. "When the (Mendon varsity) job came open this past spring, one of the first phone calls I made was to Jeff to see if he'd be sticking around," says Bob Nally, 38. Prior to that, he was a five-year varsity assistant at Sutherland after being Victor's varsity head coach for five years. Sutherland is where he formed a bond with John Nally and his younger brother, Bob. "He could chew a kid’s rear end out and the next day they’d be hugging him."Īmoroso is in his third year as Mendon's varsity assistant in basketball. "He's great at reading people and being able to have a positive influence on really everyone on his team," says longtime Greece Athena boys basketball coach Jim Johnson, whose staff Amoroso was a part of for 17 seasons. That can be difficult for some coaches to determine. Colleagues also say Amoroso uses humor effectively, appropriately and at the right times.
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