Head Coach-Ryan Marini
Coach Marini is excited to be heading into his 10th year of being the head coach at Denver South. He will also serve as defensive coordinator for the Ravens. In the past 9 years, under Coach Marini’s direction, the program has gone 49-36, including 3 league championships and 4 state playoff appearances. Coach Marini is in his 25th year of teaching social studies in Denver Public Schools, the past 14 years at Denver South High School the previous 10 years at Abraham Lincoln High School. He has coached football at a plethora of schools, including Lincoln, Heritage, Cherry Creek, Littleton, and Denver South. In addition to football, he coached 8 years as an assistant basketball coach at Lincoln during their two state championships (2007 & 2008). Coach Marini played strong safety at Heritage High School (Class of ’98) and at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA (National Playoff Qualifier, 1999). He would like to thank his wife Christy (teacher at Campus Middle School) for her role as Director of On-field Technology and generally putting up with his nonsense.
Varsity Offensive Coordinator-Isaiah Sanchez
Coach Sanchez stepped on the football field at the age of 7 and fell in love with every aspect of the game and has been involved in football ever since. He played high school football at Bear Creek High in Lakewood, CO. His first coaching experience was as a flag football head coach with i9 sports, where he was part of back to back championship seasons. He then got the chance to be an assistant coach with the team he grew up playing for the Denver P.A.L. Redskins. He helped out with two different age groups this past season, 6-8 yr olds and as well as 12-14 yr olds. He will be Offensive Coordinator this upcoming season, his 8th for the Denver South Ravens.
Special Teams Coord./Varsity Backs Coach-Kyle Baker
Varsity DB Coach-Malcolm Wright
Varsity ILB Coach-Alvaro Marquez
Coach Marquez enters his 3rd season coaching inside linebackers at Denver South and 6th season coaching football after coaching for two years at Abraham Lincoln High School and one year in Greeley coaching 5th graders. He was born and raised in Denver where he played football and ran track in High School. He earned his Bachelor’s in Business Administration at The University of Northern Colorado and currently owns and runs a construction business in concrete.
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Freshman Offensive Coord.-Austin Meeler
Coach Meeler is excited to be the head freshman coach this year at South He coached at South during Coach Marini’s inaugural season as head coach, took some time off, and then returned 3 years ago. Prior to coaching at Denver South, coach Meeler was the head freshman coach at Littleton HS for 8 seasons. In addition to coaching football, coach Meeler has been coaching middle school basketball at Slavens K-8 for the past 9 years where he also teaches 3rd grade. Before coaching, Meeler played quarterback and defensive back at Palmer HS in Colorado Springs before playing quarterback at Adams State and Howard Payne University. Go Ravens!
Varsity O-Line Coach-Nate Richey
Coach Richey is going into his 3rd season coaching at South HS and will be coaching the Varsity OL for the second year in a row. He is currently a high school teacher at South, and has been teaching there for 4 years now. Coach Richey is originally from Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from Harding University 4 years ago, where he also played football. Coach is excited about joining the South football coaching staff and making connections with our athletes, both on and off the field.
Freshman Head Coach-Justin Jones
Coach (Just) Jones will be entering his his 1st season at South HS as a coach with the Freshmen team. Born and raised in Denver, a South HS graduate himself. He comes over as a very well respected youth coach and has been coaching youth football the past 9 seasons, coaching kids as young as 4 and 5 years old from flag football up until 7th grade tackle. He’s previously helped with our futures program the past 2 springs as well. Coach is looking forward to joining our staff and working with our student athletes as he continues his coaching journey as a Denver South Raven.