Matt Millheiser, architect of three straight Long Island championships by the Shoreham-Wading River High School football team, will not return to the team next year.
Millheiser confirmed, in a text message, that he had stepped down as the team’s coach Monday afternoon. READ
Any way you looked at it, this was going to be a tough haul for the Shoreham-Wading River High School football team.
The Wildcats went into this season hoping to snatch an unprecedented fourth straight Long Island championship.
Shoreham-Wading River sophomore Xavier Arline scored four touchdowns to lead the Wildcats to a 42-12 victory over Port Jefferson in the first round of the Division IV playoffs Friday night. READ
Just call him Johnny-on-the-spot.
In his first high school varsity football start on Saturday, Jake Meeker showed an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time. READ
The seed was planted early. Real early.
Echoes of the postgame celebrations of Shoreham-Wading River’s third straight Long Island Class IV football championship were still ringing when coach Matt Millheiser pulled Xavier Arline aside to give him a message. “I want four,” he told the player.
It has been almost three years since Thomas Cutinella died while playing football for Shoreham-Wading River High School in a game against Elwood/John Glenn. On Oct. 1, 2014, Cutinella collapsed on Glenn’s field. His death sent shock waves throughout Suffolk County and beyond.
Although they call him “X-Man,” he is not a superhero. But that doesn’t mean Xavier Arline doesn’t bring considerable physical weapons to the Shoreham-Wading River High School football team. READ
It starts with the lines.
Every high school football coach, including Shoreham-Wading River’s Matt Millheiser, knows that. Football can look almost easy for a team with a strong line, and remarkably difficult for a team without one.
