The Snyder Tiger football team will have a new look on one side of the ball after the program added a new defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.
Micheal Widenor joins the staff after spending several years at Bandera High School.
Widenor has coached at the high school level for more than 20 years and brings experience and relatability to the Tiger program, according to Snyder head football coach Wes Wood.
“He’s a great person,” Wood said. “He is an amazing relationship builder. He gets kids to run through a brick wall for him and that is more than half the battle. He is very experienced. He’s from New York and spent time in the military, so he has a bit of a different twang to him. He’s unique, he’s fun, he’s energetic and energy is something that is non-negotiable for me. It was the right fit for him and the right fit for us.”
Widenor runs a 3-4 defense and Wood said that should allow the Tigers more flexibility on the defensive side of the ball.
“I’ve always loved the 3-4,” he said. “It provides you so many opportunities because you can be so multiple in bringing a guy from four different places at any given moment and you can run so many different coverages from it. I just think it fits today’s game well and he is very simple. The way he was able to implement and teach it, it just seemed easy and I think our kids will be able to get a handle on it pretty quickly.”
The Tigers also brought in Tanner Mann from Roscoe ISD, where he served as the defensive coordinator for the Plowboys.
In Snyder, Mann will be the Tigers’ inside linebackers coach.
The Tigers are still in search of an outside linebackers coach and an assistant tennis coach.
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