Steve Digregorio Obituary – Passed Away! Steve DiGregorio, the most dominating mentor in Nutley football history, passed on Tuesday night after a fight with disease. He was 60 years of age.
“Steve’s religion was respectability,” Nutley athletic chief Joe Piro said Wednesday. “In a world that, particularly of late, is more appalling than great, he was the something beneficial. He was the something unadulterated.”
DiGregorio, a 1979 Nutley graduate, will be recognized as a respected history educator that wanted to work with understudies both in the study hall and on the football field.
He at first trained the Raiders from 2004 to 2011, then, at that point, gotten back to the head instructing position in 2017. He resigned recently subsequent to driving Nutley to a 6-0 record in the pandemic-abbreviated 2020 season. It was whenever the Raiders first had gone undefeated in football starting around 1929 and prompted one outlet announcing DiGregorio as Coach of the Year in New Jersey.
DiGregorio’s football vocation extended a long ways past Nutley. After a fruitful spell as a player at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, DiGregorio filled in as an associate mentor at Princeton University for 13 seasons. He worked intimately with previous Giants running back Keith Elias, just as previous Giants quarterback and current Giants hostile organizer Jason Garrett during his time at Princeton.
DiGregorio trained at now-outdated Paul VI High School in Clifton, where he developed to be one of the most all around regarded secondary school mentors in the state, then, at that point, took over as lead trainer and athletic chief at Paramus Catholic from 2001-2003. None of that contrasted with getting back to mentor the Raiders.
“I was the most fortunate AD in the territory of New Jersey,” Piro said about his employing of DiGregorio. “I never must be concerned whether he planned to make the best decision and for an AD, that is awesome’s load in gold.”
Piro and DiGregorio’s relationship rose above a connection between athletic chief and mentor. A long time prior, the two were the two finalists for the work when DiGregorio was employed in 2004. Much sooner than that, Piro’s dad was DiGregorio’s first youth football trainer many years sooner.
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