He used to play football in high school with Schron. Peter Gambardella is the current head coach for the Warriors. My brother wouldn't stop doing what he loved to do, and that was football." "Every time he was faced with something coming out of remission and it coming back and having to go back into chemo, I mean, he just continued. That's when he got the opportunity to coach the Warriors, which he did for 18 years.ĭiMeglio said the name of the team describes her brother perfectly. "He had a career-ending injury that brought him back to Staten Island," DiMeglio said. Because of his performance at Curtis High School, Schron earned an athletic scholarship to play football at Hofstra University. Still, Schron persevered and coached the Curtis High School Warriors, the team he played for when he was a student. Schron’s son, Jake, was featured on NY1 after receiving a heart transplant three years ago. The family has endured their share of battles.
She said her brother was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2003 and later developed other forms of cancer. "I wish one day, his children could look back on him and just see what a wonderful person he was," said Veronica DiMeglio, Schron’s sister. NY1's Talia Kaplan filed the following report.Īndrew Schron, a 39-year-old father of three young kids, was also a high school football coach and found time to train thousands of students, all while battling cancer for 13 years. A beloved high school football coach in the borough has died after a long battle with cancer.
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