Playing for North Attleboro High School |
Playing for The College of the Holy Cross![]() Mike with President Ford. ![]() Mike with Keith Jackson and Merlin Olsen. He also received the National Football Foundation scholar/athlete award in college(Top ten in division one), at a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria attended by Bob Hope, presidents- Ford and Nixon and numerous other celebrities. ![]() This story from the Holy Cross program Coach Redding's senior year. Story |
After receiving his masters degree in education from Brown University he took the job of teaching social studies and coaching the
Mansfield High School football team. In 1998-99 he started coaching the Mansfield girls varsity basketball team.(1998-2019 (21)301-188) In 1991 and 1992 during summer break he participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities project that had as its goal the rewriting of Soviet and U.S. history. With 15 history teachers from across the U.S., and 15 Soviet teachers they worked at Harvard University for four weeks in June the first summer, than spent four weeks in the former U.S.S.R the following summer. In 1994 he studied Irish history at the University of Dublin, in Ireland. In addition he has traveled to Greece, Mexico, Hawaii, the Caribbean, Spain, and a two week tour of Europe(England, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy) For recreation he is a long distance runner, having run the Boston Marathon for 20 years, usually averaging about 4 hours. His 2001 time was 3hr 23min. On December 31 2004 Mike married Nicole Fichera of Easton, They have three children; Emma(2006), Twins; Patrick(PJ) and Ava(2009). |
MHFCAIn 2019 Mike was inducted into the Massachusetts High School Football coaches Hall of Fame.![]() |
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