{"id":42083,"date":"2016-12-10T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=42083"},"modified":"2016-12-10T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:59:11","slug":"riverdale-hs-names-new-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/12\/riverdale-hs-names-new-head-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverdale HS Names New Head Football Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special to the Lehigh Acres Gazette<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42084\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42084\" title=\"James Delgado at Apopka\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/James-Delgado-at-Apopka-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/James-Delgado-at-Apopka-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/James-Delgado-at-Apopka.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Delgado at Apopka HS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Riverdale High School Raiders are excited to announce James Delgado as their new head football coach.\u00a0 Coach Delgado comes to Riverdale from Apopka High School where he served as Assistant Coach.\u00a0 With Delgado as the Assistant Coach the team made three state championship appearances, winning two of them.<\/p>\n<p>After interviewing at Riverdale the day after Thanksgiving, the 31-year-old knew it was a place he wanted to be. On Friday he became the\u00a0Raiders football coach, replacing Tom Roszell, who went 2-7 in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Coach Delgado is a graduate of Apopka High School where he played on the school\u2019s 2001 state championship team.\u00a0 He went on to play college football at Webber International University where he served as team captain.\u00a0 After receiving his Bachelor\u2019s degree in finance, he coached at the university and served as a recruiter.\u00a0 During that time, he also earned his Master\u2019s Degree in Sports Management.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Delgado has developed some of the nation\u2019s top offensive linemen like Martez Ivey (Offensive Tackle, Florida Gators) and Ty Darlington, (Center, Oklahoma Sooners) and has produced three individual 1,000-yard rushers for three consecutive years in 2013, 2014, and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career,\u00a0Coach Delgado has placed athletes at every collegiate level and has forged a multitude of relationships with college recruiters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to the Lehigh Acres Gazette The Riverdale High School Raiders are excited to announce James Delgado as their new head football coach.\u00a0 Coach Delgado comes to Riverdale from Apopka&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}