After two and a half years at the helm of the successful Williams Valley football program, head coach Stephen Sedesse submitted his letter of resignation on Monday according to Leroy Boyer of T-102 Sports Now. The full letter of resignation written by the former head coach, and obtained by Boyer is mentioned below.
“On Monday, October 6th, 2025, I am officially resigning as head football coach at Williams Valley High School. When I took this role, it was with hopes of changing a culture and helping in the pursuit of building student-athletes. My staff and I built a winning team on the field but more importantly a winning team off the field. We completed community service projects and rarely ran into eligibility problems. It was always an emphasis to be disciplined on the field and in the classroom. When you lose the ability to discipline and hold members of your team accountable, the ship will sink. That is where my decision is based.
“As a coach you see things or hear things at practice that need to be addressed. At the end of the day the coaches make decisions on who will play and who will not play on Friday nights. When parents take the coaches’ ability to discipline and hold their child accountable, due to threats and defamatory statements, it is impossible to have trust. When parents can approach you at the locker room following a loss and yell obscenities from the stands, and get away with it, it creates a very bad environment for the coaches and the kids alike.
“We are 28-6 as a staff and after (the) 28 wins I never had a parent attack me. After (each of) the six losses I had a parent or multiple parents threaten my job and livelihood. Each time nothing was done or handled, each time it happened again and again, like clockwork. As a 29-year-old head coach, when you have no support, you can’t make it work.
“This isn’t the first or last time in Schuylkill County that parents ran out a young coach. We live in a world where parents and children are friends, they lack discipline and when their child tells a coach to “go (f***) themselves,” the parent deflects that behavior on the coach, the coach is the problem. When a coach disciplines their child, they get threatened that if their kid doesn’t start they better have extra security on Friday night. Everybody always makes the statement my kid is a great kid, he wouldn’t act like that. I agree to an extent it is out of the ordinary for certain kids to act out of character but it’s my job to handle it so it doesn’t become an everyday occurrence.
“Football is hard and it’s a team sport. You can’t win with ego, not one player is bigger than the program. If you allow that, you don’t have a program anymore. But add in parent pressure, and in today’s world the kid gets away with it, the parent gets away with it and the coaches get left out to dry.
“I thank my former players and coaches for the lessons I’ve learned throughout this 2.5-year journey, about coaching and life. The rumors of me being fired are false. In order to be fired I would have had to do something wrong. This is me stepping away from the parents and administration of Williams Valley.”
Sedesse was on Tim Savage’s staff prior to taking over the Vikings program where he coached the quarterback room. After Savage was not rehired after 11 seasons, he (Sedesse) took over where he guided the Vikings to a record of 28-6 during his time in charge, including back-to-back District 11 championships.
After their clash against Schuylkill Haven, the top two players on the Williams Valley team were suspended for the opening half of their game against Panther Valley, where the Vikings won. Stephen Sedesse and his father, Defensive Cooridnator Mike Sedesse, were suspended by the school administration for two games due to benching the players longer than they were told. Both coaches resigned on Monday afternoon, and Athletic Director Ben Ancheff will be the interim head coach for the remainder of the season.
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