BREAKING: Former CovCath/St. X (OH) Coach Steve Rasso has passed away

[CardinalsFan]

Saw this article this morning in the Enquirer. I had no idea Steve was the first head coach at Covington Catholic.

 

Former St. Xavier football coach Steve Rasso died Tuesday night

 

Steve was a very good man who had more to offer the world. His loss is certainly felt in the Cincinnati coaching community and possibly extending into NKY as well.

 

Thoughts and prayers to his family and the CovCath and St. Xavier families as well.

 

-CardinalsFan

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

Requiescat in pace.

 

Sad to hear. Coach Rasso was the first ever head coach of the Cov Cath football team, coaching the Colonels as they competed as a jv squad for the 1967 season to a 5-4-1 record. He moved on to take the head coach position at LaSalle the next year, and then he went to Cincinnati's St. Xavier High School in 1976, where he was the head coach until 2001 (I believe).

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

From the article in CardinalFan's original post:

 

"Rasso's four-decade career as a physical education teacher and football coach featured a 36-year legacy and a 249-122-6 record. He spent 26 years at St. Xavier, where he amassed a 189-86-2 record and six Greater Cincinnati League/Greater Catholc League championships (became Greater Catholic League in 1990), 11 playoff appearances and three state runner-up finishes."

 

Quite a feat. Coach Rasso definitely helped make football better around Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

 

I wonder how many young men Coach helped put through college via their football careers.

[C-BOY78]

Requiescat in pace.

 

Sad to hear. Coach Rasso was the first ever head coach of the Cov Cath football team, coaching the Colonels as they competed as a jv squad for the 1967 season to a 5-4-1 record. He moved on to take the head coach position at LaSalle the next year, and then he went to Cincinnati's St. Xavier High School in 1976, where he was the head coach until 2001 (I believe).

 

1967 was the first varsity year

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

1967 was the first varsity year

 

So the jv team started playing in the 1966 season then?

[Sandman]

Like CF, I had no idea he was CovCath's first coach.

 

He was an institution at St. X, and a very good person.