Pat Montagano

PAT MONTAGANO, Elkhart High School (Class of 1950)

High School

• Football: 3-year letterwinner.
• Basketball: 3-year letterwinner.
• Track: 4-year letterwinner, team captain, MVP senior year; set sectional pole vault at 12-3 in 1950.
• 1950 Tim Bringle Award winner for top senior male athlete in Elkhart Community Schools.

, College

Attended University of Michigan.

Played football (1 year), track (2 years) and golf (2 years)., Coaching/Teaching

Teacher and coach in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Coached 5 years at junior high level.

Coached 11 years at Livonia Churchill HS, becoming the first boys basketball coach.

Won 9 league titles, 3 districts, 2 regionals.

Named Michigan Coach of the Year in 1973 and ’74.

Named AD and Asst. Principal at Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1979.