John Whitelavich

East Stroudsburg’s coaching bio says John Whitelavich was North Pocono’s head football coach for five seasons, 2002 through 2006. He taught in the district from 1974 until 2006 and had been the head coach at Lakeland from 1997 through 2001.

2003 has its own page. An Aug. 26, 2023, Times-Tribune lookback, in the items from 20 years earlier, has Riverside’s Nate Trolio scoring three touchdowns in a 34-7 win. A Sept. 9, 2023, lookback, in the items from 20 years earlier, has Devin Hewlett rushing for 115 yards and a touchdown as Abington Heights won 13-3.

MaxPreps has game logs for 2004, 2005, and 2006: 1-9, 8-3, and 1-9. Those three years are 10-21. 2005 and 2006 have their own pages. An Oct. 4, 2026, Times-Tribune lookback, in the items from 20 years earlier, has Honesdale winning 41-28.

Steve Shumbres, a North Pocono graduate, started his coaching career as an assistant on Whitelavich’s staff. The March 5, 2018, Times-Tribune story on Shumbres’s hiring at Scranton says he had played strong safety and quarterback at North Pocono, fractured vertebrae in the opening week of his senior year, came back, and led the Trojans to the Eastern Conference Class 3A playoffs, then played in the secondary at Lycoming.