NJ High School Strength Coach Podcast šļø Mike Defazio | Coaching Football, Starting New Programs & The ART of Coaching Athletes
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Zach Even - Esh
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šļø 18 February 2026
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NJ High School Strength Coach Podcast šļø Mike Defazio | Coaching Football, Starting New Programs & The ART of Coaching Athletes
Connect with Mike DeFazio: https://mikedefaziosports.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Strong Life podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | This is Zach Evanish. |
| 0:04.5 | And in this episode, we do our extra podcast, which is the New Jersey High School Strength |
| 0:11.3 | Coach podcast. |
| 0:12.2 | I do this with my buddy, Paul Collodi. |
| 0:14.8 | We together run the NJ State NHS SEA. |
| 0:18.6 | That's the National High School Strength Coaches Association. |
| 0:21.4 | And in this episode, we have a guest, Mike DeFazio, great guy, awesome background. |
| 0:27.2 | He gets into it. |
| 0:28.2 | He'll give his little bit of intro, but very diverse and broad background from college to starting programs in a charter school to being the first |
| 0:39.3 | trend coach at this current public school that he's at up in North Jersey. |
| 0:43.8 | Great guy, wealth of information. |
| 0:46.5 | And if you are in the New Jersey area, I'm going to be linking up below the New Jersey |
| 0:53.5 | clinic that we hold. It's going to be on Friday, March 27th. I'm going to be linking up below the New Jersey State Clinic that we hold. |
| 0:55.5 | It's going to be on Friday, March 27th. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm going to be Mike DeFazio speaking. |
| 1:00.4 | He's one of our guests. |
| 1:02.1 | Myself and Paul Colloidy are going to do a little Q&A. |
| 1:05.0 | Our head coach at the Underground Neat Stout will be there. |
| 1:08.6 | Tommy Reardon, who's a high school strength coach and great dude. |
| 1:13.1 | And also my friend Eric Pritchard, aka Pritch, he's inside of our Dad Strong program. |
| 1:18.9 | And he is a athletic director as well as an assistant principal at a high school. |
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