{"id":353,"date":"2023-04-18T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/?p=353"},"modified":"2023-04-18T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:01:29","slug":"mike-zmijanac-coach-football-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/mike-zmijanac-coach-football-basketball","title":{"rendered":"Mike Zmijanac \u2013 Coach\/Football &amp; Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>A graduate of Aliquippa High School and Edinboro State University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He returned to teach at Aliquippa for thirty-nine years with several stints as an assistant coach in football and basketball.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most prominent assistant coaching successes came as defensive coordinator for Aliquippa teams which won four WPIAL Titles in seven championship appearances<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hired as the Aliquippa\u2019s head boys basketball coach in 1996 and head football coach in 1997<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>His 7-year head basketball coaching career included a record of 166 \u2013 43, three WPIAL championships, and one PIAA AA state title<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>His 21\u2013year head football coaching record is 237\u201336, an incredible 86.8 winning percentage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Six WPIAL titles in 13 championship games, including 10 consecutive WPIAL tournament appearances and one PIAA championship in four title appearances<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other notable achievements: 11 undefeated regular seasons, a 62-game consecutive winning streak and numerous Coach of the Year recognition\u2019s.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elected to the Minor Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elected to the Pennsylvania State Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only coach in Pennsylvania history ever to win high school state titles in both football and basketball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" data-src=\"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mike-Zmijanac-Action-Shot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mike-Zmijanac-Action-Shot.png 800w, https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mike-Zmijanac-Action-Shot-480x304.png 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/507;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mike-Zmijanac-Action-Shot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mike-Zmijanac-Action-Shot.png 800w, https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mike-Zmijanac-Action-Shot-480x304.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernpasportshof.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}