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St. Pierre named St. John’s Prep football coach

Steve Krause

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DANVERS – Former NFL quarterback Brian St. Pierre has been named the new head football coach at St. John’s Prep.St. Pierre, a 1998 graduate of the school who later went onto star as Boston College’s quarterback in 2001 and 2002, assumes the position held for the past 30 years by Jim O’Leary, whose retirement from coaching was announced Thursday by the school.St. Pierre led the St. John’s Prep Eagles to a football Super Bowl championship in 1997, and quarterbacked the BC Eagles to two bowl victories (including the Motor City Bowl in 2002, in which he was named the game’s MVP). He was drafted out of college by the Pittsburgh Steelers, one spot behind his BC center Dan Koppan, who was taken by the Patriots. He played for the Steelers, Arizona Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens and the Carolina Panthers during a career that went from 2002 through 2010. He was on the Cardinals team that went to the Super Bowl in 2009, falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers.See Saturday’s Item and itemlive.com for complete coverage.

  • Steve Krause

    Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018. Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

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