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Interview of the Week – Sussex Tech Head Football Coach Mark Quillin

June 21, 2016 Posted by Matt Pencek Featured Sports, Local Sports, Sports Interview Of The Week

Between players and coaches, the Henlopen conference was well represented at the DFRC Blue Gold All-Star Football Game. Sussex Tech’s Mark Quillin was an assistant on the Gold squad and he talked about the experience and gives an insight for the 2017 Ravens season.

Pencek: What does it mean to you that your asked to be part of the Gold staff?

Quillin: It’s a great priveledge to be involved with anything with the Blue Gold Game and all the festivities around it. I’m very blessed to have been asked by (Middletown) Coach (Mark) Delpercio. I got that call several months ago to be a part of his staff. I had the opportunity two years ago to have my first experience with Coach (Glenn) Phillips the former Laurel head coach. It was just a wonderful experience. Not only being around that level of football but also the Special Olympics kids, the band, and everything that’s involved. It’s just a great activity and just a great game.

Pencek: With all that surrounds the Blue Gold game, how much focus were you able to put towards winning the game?

Quillin: As we lead up to it, there are so many activities especially with the Buddies. Once they showed up on June 12, it does become more about football. Coach Delpercio is a very intense fellow as well as myself. We had a good staff and the Blue had a good staff. For some of these kids, it was their last experience to play football. It was a special week for them.

Pencek: How were you able to manage that week with the challenge of being together for only a few days?

Quillin: Coach Depercio gave the staff a weekly agenda and we met several times over the past six months to make sure we were organized and ready to roll. We started in on the 12th, that was our first practice. That is when we started to put in the gameplan.

Pencek: Having experienced this just recently, are you better prepared in dealing with the limited time?

Quillin: I do, I feel a lot more comfortable as far as the schedule goes. I coached the defensive backs this year, it was a smaller role than last time. You do get the opportunity to learn about football as well as hanging out some the Gold coaches I don’t get a chance to see very much as well as the Blue staff. A lot of those guys, the upstate guys and the guys I coach against, we all come together for one purpose.

Pencek: What is that like, during the season you were matched up against some of these players and coaches?

Quillin: It was a nice surprise to get a call from Coach Delpercio. He’s had our number the past couple of years in the playoffs. He does great job and he is a class act. He’s got a great program, so I was looking forward to working with him. Coach Collick at Cape (Henlopen) is somebody I now got to coach with him. You battle that week during the season, you may hate them that week but after that we’re all football coaches and we’re all part of that football family.

Pencek: Is it too early to talk Sussex Tech football?

Quillin: It’s never too early for that. We exactly started preparing for this season the day after we lost to Middletown. My staff and I have been working the whole year and looking forward to putting together another great season. We said good-bye to our seniors this month. They will be missed but we are looking forward to having a great group come back this year.

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Matt joined WBOC in October 2015 as a Sports Broadcast Journalist. He is a native of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. Matt graduated from Penn State where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He started his broadcast career as the news/sports director of WEMR AM 1460 in his hometown of Tunkhannock. Matt held that same position for WALI/WROG radio in Cumberland, MD. His first television position was as the weekend sports anchor at WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, MD where he eventually became the Sports Director. Matt then moved to Florence, SC to become a sports reporter/anchor for WPDE-TV In 2011 along with his brother David, Matt co-authored The Great Book of Penn State Sports Lists. From 2012 – 2015 he was the lead radio play-by-play voice for The Friday Night High School Football Game of the Week for DE FOX Sports 1290 in Wilmington, DE. The last 2 years at the radio station Matt was the studio host during the University of Delaware Football radio broadcasts. He has also called the action for the both the Blue Hens men’s and women’s basketball teams. Outside of work, Matt is married to his wife Shannon and has two sons; Jack and Connor. E-mail Matt Pencek at mpencek@wboc.com and follow him on Twitter @mattpencek_wboc. Check out all stories by Matt.

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