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| Kilby coaching his team from the sidelines. |
Staff Writer
Joe
Kilby will be the new head football coach for Apex High School in the 2012-2013
season. Until then, he will be working
with the players in the weight room. “Right
now, our focus is on getting the players in the weight room. It does not matter what level you play at - you
win games in the off-season,” said Kilby.
He was hired to succeed retiring head coach Bob Wolfe. Wolfe said, “It takes a lot of energy to get
the program to where it was before, not that I don’t have the energy; it would
just be easier to have someone younger do it.”
Kilby
has coached for 19 years at the high school and college level. He coached at Leesville Road High School and
Cedar Ridge High School, where he was the head coach with a two-year record of
15-11. He led Cedar Ridge to the East
finals in 2010. Kilby’s assistant coaching jobs consisted of
quarterback coach and offensive line coach and he has coached in New York,
Kansas, Texas, and Virginia. His playing
days occurred at University of Waterloo in New York where he played defensive
back.
Kilby’s
inspiration comes from many great coaches. “I’ve
got a lot of respect for [New York Giants] Head Coach Tom Coughlin. He got focused on what he needed to do and
won the Super Bowl," Kilby said. Other
coaches who inspired Kilby were former Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy
and the late Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi. The coaches who Kilby
hopes to emulate are “Guys I’ve coached under.
They’ve had the greatest influences on me.”
Coach
Kilby plans to improve last year’s record of 1-7 in a tough Tri-Nine Conference. “Our football program is going to be based
upon working hard and playing a tough, physical style of football,” Kilby said.
