Scott Tappa

Scott Tappa is a youth football, basketball, and baseball coach in Iola, Wis. Scott is the author of First-Time Coach: Youth Football, 114 Youth Football Plays, Read Option Offense for Youth Football, 105 Youth Football Drills, 129 Football Trick Plays, High School Basketball Analytics, Create Your Own Basketball Playbook, Create Your Own Football Playbook and children's sports fiction books No Quit, Scoop and The Kid Who Called the Plays. In addition to serving as coach, he was president of Iola-Scandinavia Pee Wee Athletics and the Mid-State Youth Football & Cheerleading Conference. After beginning his career as a newspaper sports editor, he worked in a variety of magazine, book, and online capacities before landing at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he worked in a marketing, communications, and events position, and founded the Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference. He is now a business education teacher at Iola-Scandinavia (Wis.) High School, coaching middle school football, JV boys basketball, and serving as advisor for the school's yearbook and DECA student organization. Scott is married to Jana and father of Will and Charlie. Follow Scott on Twitter at @scotttappa, YouTube at www.youtube.com/channel/UC_TA-nXwS1tDKudJbAHcuNg, and Instagram at @coachtappa.