Football coach cancels weightlifting — and has Pennsylvania teens shovel snow instead
High school football players found themselves shoveling snow as a substitute for lifting weights after their Pennsylvania coach encouraged them to help out their neighbors instead.
“Due to expected severe weather, Monday’s weightlifting workout has been cancelled,” coach Brian DeLallo tweeted Sunday, Jan. 16. “Find an elderly or disabled neighbor and shovel their driveway. Don’t accept any money — that’s our Monday workout.”
Due to expected severe weather, Monday’s weightlifting workout has been cancelled. Find an elderly or disabled neighbor and shovel their driveway. Don’t accept any money - that’s our Monday workout.
— Brian DeLallo (@BDeLallo) January 16, 2022
DeLallo is the head coach of Bethel Park High School’s football team and a teacher, according to his Twitter.
After his tweet garnered positive reaction and attention from local media stations, he added this idea came from former head coach Jeff Metheny, who coached for 25 years prior to DeLallo.
“We are simply carrying on 1 of the many great traditions he established,” DeLallo added.
That tradition involves community, he told WTAE.
“We talk about it in our program all the time,” he continued. “This is another chance we have to go out and interact with our community in a positive way and show them that they’re important to us.”
Team captain and high school junior Gavin Moul told KDKA that some people refused their community service, while many were surprised the team wasn’t taking money for their makeshift workouts.
“I feel great about it and think we all feel great about it,” he told the Pittsburgh TV station. “It’s not only helping them, but it’s helping us to become a better team.”
Bethel Park is south of Pittsburgh in the metropolitan area. The area received as much as 9 inches of snow Sunday, Jan. 16, into Monday.
