Pat Echeverria '01 Takes Head Football Coaching Job at Indiana HS

April 22, 2011

94758 April 22, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "Pat Echeverria never has been a head coach but should know a thing or two about rebuilding football programs as he takes over at Eastern Hancock," begins an Indianapolis Star article on the 2001 DePauw University graduate. "Echeverria served as the defensive coordinator at Pike the last four years, as the Red Devils went 39-9 and reached the Class 5A state title game in 2007. Before that, he was a top assistant to Derek Moyers at Cascade, where they turned around a struggling program and went 18-4 in Moyers' final two seasons before he took over at Pike -- where he brought in Echeverria," writes Michael Pointer.

"That combination of success at large 5A Pike and small 2A Cascade led Echeverria, 31, to Charlottestown, where he has been hired as 1A Eastern Hancock's new head coach."

"I honestly believe Pat is the perfect fit," Eastern Hancock athletic director Aaron Spaulding tells the newspaper. "In my mind's eye, when we started the process, he fit about as close as you could come to what I was looking for.

The text notes, "Echeverria played football at DePauw University before starting his coaching career at Cascade. He left there to become the defensive coordinator at Perry Meridian for one season in 2006 before rejoining Moyers at Pike." A biological sciences 5099 major at DePauw, he spent the 2001 season as an assistant under his college coach, Nick Mourouzis.

You'll find the complete piece at IndyStar.com.

Echeverria and his classmates won four consecutive Monon Bell games during their time at DePauw. See a "Monon Memory" of the 2000 battle for the Bell here: [Download Video: "2000 Monon Memory" - 3439kb].