December 7, 2011

WBLAHS head football coach Bob Jackson announced his retirement this past Sunday. In his 19 years as the Bears head coach, he compiled a record of 123 wins and 77 losses with two conference championships and four trips to the State High School Football Tournament. He has more victories than any other football coach in White Bear Lake history and has accounted for just over 27% of the total victories since the inception of the program in 1913. In 2011, his team finished the SEC in a tie for 3rd place at 6-2. The Bears beat Irondale in the first round of the playoffs but lost to Totino-Grace in the semifinals.

Each year, we graduate a group of 7th grade players that for four years have been learning the game of football with their goal being to play on a high school varsity field. Coach Jackson annually holds camps and clinics, not only for our players but for our coaches as well in order to prepare these young athletes for the next step in their journey.

Coach Jackson has had hundreds of young men go through his program since his arrival in 1993. He not only taught them how to be the best football players they could be, he also taught them how to be the best human beings they could be.

White Bear Youth Football would like to congratulate Coach Jackson on an outstanding career and wish him the very best in whatever the future holds for him.