Season’s Coaching: 26
Career Coaching Games: 245
Career Coaching Record: 182 Wins, 63 Loses
Career Winning Percentage: 74.2%
Championships: 12
Championship Record: 12 Wins, 7 Loses
Finals Appearances: 19
Playoff Appearances: 23
Winning Seasons: 22

1999 – Present:  METRO TORONTO WILDCATS (OVFL)

Record (as head coach): 26 Wins, 19 Loses (including 2-3 in playoffs).
57.8% Winning Pct. (30 Wins, 32 Loses overall in both roles)
Championships: 0
Finals Appearances: 0
Playoff Appearances: 4 (4 consecutive)

2002 – Present – Head Football Coach & Defensive Coordinator – Metro Toronto Wildcats
1999-2000 – Defensive Coordinator Metro Toronto Wildcats

Highlights

• One of four OV football teams to make the playoffs last four consecutive years (Mississauga Warriors, Essex Ravens, Ottawa Myers Riders)
• Metro Toronto Wildcats are the Number 1 CIS feeder program in Canada. There are currently 39 Wildcats playing CIS across Canada.
• Have sent 6 players to the NCAA on full scholarships. (Matt Black, Mark Faria, J’Michael Deane, Shane Hall, Ryan Hinds, Kevin Logan)
• Metro Toronto Wildcats Varsity are the only team in the OVFL without a TAP program, yet have produced more elite athletes than any other program, with players having at most, 4 years in our system . Most programs have players for 11 years.
• Named Finalist for NFL/CFL “Coach of the Year” award 2006
• Broke seven defensive OVFL records in 2003 season.
• Have had 8 OVFL positional MVP’s in last 4 years.
• Have had 23 OVFL All-Stars in last 5 years.
• Have had the number one defense in the OVFL in 2000 and 2003
• Have had 22 Special Team Return TD’s over the last five years, by far the most in the OVFL.

1990 – 2005: NORTHERN SECONDARY SCHOOL RED KNIGHTS (TSSAA,TDSB)

Record (Overall): 121 Wins, 25 Loses (including playoffs)
82.8% Winning Pct.
TSSAA,TDSB Championships: 9 (’90, ’92, ’94, ’95, ’96, ’00, ’01, ’03, ’04)
Championship Appearances: 15 (9 wins, 6 losses)
Metro Bowl Championship Appearances: 3 (’90, ’94, ’04)
Metro Bowl Championships: 2 (’90, ’94)
Total Championships: 11
Total Playoff Appearances: 16 Consecutive

1994 – 2005 – Defensive Coordinator
1990 – 1994 – Defensive Backs Coach and Special Teams Coordinator

Highlights:

• Coached under Clarke Pulford (’90 – ’94) Most wins of any High School Football coach in Toronto History
• Northern has won more Toronto High School Championships than any other school (18)
• Northern ranked #1 team (Ron Dias All-Star Football) in Canada in 1990, 1994, 1998(no official TSSAA season, all exhibitions, school strike)
• Coached 37 Toronto Star All-Stars in 16 years
• Coached over 50 players to go on to play CIS football
• Had 16 players receive full NCAA scholarships - Nic Wishart, Western Carolina, Cleon Morgan, Colgate, Dave Davenport, Penn, Matt Brandt, Miami of Ohio, Raul Allyene, Southern, Ashley Beal, Michigan State, George Trakosis, Bowling Green, Mike Long, Indianapolis, Louis Hobson, Stanford, Nick Beale, Cornell, Bill Mitoulas, Notre Dame, Anthony Brown, Grand Valley State, Mike Winter, New Mexico State, Emmerson Phillips, Boston College, Peter Mitoulas, Kansas State, Matt Black, Saginaw Valley State.
• Were in Toronto Star top 10 for 8 consecutive years without an absence, a total of almost 100 consecutive weeks. Finished in top 5 9 times, including 4 times as #1 in Toronto (’90, ’92, ’94, ’95)
• Have been Toronto Star #1 team in 11 of 16 years, at some point in each season.

1998 - Defensive Coordinator & Special Teams Coordinator– KIEL BALTIC HURRICANES – German Bundesliga, 1st Division of professional football in GFL (German Football League)

Record: 10 wins, 2 loses (including playoffs) 83.3% Winning PCT.

Highlights

• Coached under Head Coach Kirk Heidelberg, who spent 22 years in NCAA, including 8 years as Head Coach at Arkansas State University.
• Defense ranked #1 in 7 of 12 defensive categories, including most sacks, most interceptions, and most defensive returns for Touchdowns (5),( league record, still stands today)
• Defense had 5 players make 1st Team Bundesliga All-Pro (Tom Tovo – DE, Charles Hython – MLB, Richard Yancy – CB, Rowell Blennman – FS, Marion Bates – SS) All five went on to play NFL Europe, and two made NFL rosters, Marion Bates (Carolina Panthers) and Richard Yancy (Chicago Bears)
• Only team in all of Europe to beat 5 time raining GFL Champion in 1998 Hamburg Blue Devils, in front of 23,000 fans at Volkspark Stadion, Hamburg, Germany, 22-20. Lost to Hamburg in GFL Semi-Finals at the end of the season.
• 1998 season was the best season in the history of the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes.
• Coached German National Junior Team in June of 1998, coaching under Wes Chandler, former NFL All Pro, and Head Coach at the time of the Berlin Thunder.
• Broke GFL record with 4 punt return TD’s in a season, by four different individuals.
• Rejected two-year contract renewal to return to Canada.

1997 – Defensive Coordinator & Special Teams Coordinator – Hamburg Wild Huskies,
German 2nd Division (GFL)

Record: 12 Wins, 1 Loss (including playoffs) 92.3% Winning PCT. Won League
CHAMPIONSHIPS

Highlights

• One of the most gratifying seasons of my coaching career. Inherited Wild Huskie
Team that finished 1-8 the previous season (1 win being relegation game to stay
Out of 3rd division). Took identical team with only 1 American player (QB
Vreeland Moseby, from Murray State, holds two NCAA records, all other teams
Carried 4 Americans, we could only afford one, so we got a great one).
• Had 7 shutouts, including shutting down #1 offense of Dresden Knights and
holding them to 1 defensive TD in 14-7 win in front of 5500 hostile East Germans
in Semi-Finals.
• Had 5 defensive players make 2nd Division All-Star team.
• Coached at 8 different clinics to local German kids as part of contract.
• Returned opening kick-off of game for TD’s 4 times, (German record, all
divisions)
• 8 players from that team went on to play in 1st Division, including 4 players who
went on to play for GFL perennial Champion and European powerhouse, Hamburg Blue Devils.
• Turned down contract offer to return to the Wild Huskies.

1995 – Defensive Coordinator – St. Gallen Raiders, Swiss 1st Division

Record: 9 Wins, 3 Losses (including playoffs) 75% Winning PCT. Lost in Semi-Finals to eventual league Champion, Bern Grizzlies

• Took Raiders to their first playoff trip in 4 years.
• Led league in lowest points against, yards against, and pass yards against.
• Had three defensive players make Swiss National Team.
• First team to shut out defending Champion Geneva Seahawks both games we played them.
• Raiders went on to win the Swiss league for the next three consecutive years, and became the first Swiss team to win a Euro Champions game against Vienna Vikings.
• First Canadian coach to coach in Switzerland.
• Coached at several clinics all over Switzerland to promote sport and encourage grass roots development.
• Only allow 1 year visas for Switzerland, so opportunity to return not available.

Playing Highlights:

• Won 3 City Championships at Northern Secondary School.
• Was 3 time Captain of the Red Knights (2 Senior, 1 Junior)
• Northern ranked #1 in Ontario three straight years (’85, ’86, ’87)
• Was on top of the Toronto Star Top 10 for three consecutive years.
• Was 3 Time T.S.S.A.A. All-Star, winning all three games. Defensive MVP 1988.
• Started 29 straight games as a Senior Red Knight, at 4 different positions.
• Played football for 10 years, from nine years old in California.

 email: jprisco@tlitzen.com