Background
My name is Mike Wexler and I have been coaching football and skill position players for 22 years. My career started in 2000 when I was hired at a school in my hometown of Miami. Since then, I’ve grown tremendously as a person as a well as a football coach to have made a successful career out of it.
Along the way, I’ve been extremely fortunate to have coached for great coaches and great programs but the most important asset that I take from this profession is the growth, maturity, and relationship between the players. Football is engrained in my persona thanks to the athletes that I have coached along the way.
The amount of time and effort that a football coach puts in is put into perspective when on a fall Saturday afternoon, I can turn on the TV and watch 2 or 3 of the players that I coached perform for their respective Division I (FBS) schools.
- 2000-2002 – (6A) G. Holmes Braddock High School, Miami, FL
- Hired by Coach Frank Rojas
- Served as JV Offensive Coordinator & Varsity QBs Coach
- 2003 – (6A) John A. Ferguson High School, Miami, FL
- Hired by Coach Gene Chew
- Was a part of the Inaugural Staff and program
- Served as RBs & LBs Coach
- 2005 – (6A) Columbus High School, Miami, FL
- Hired by Coach Chris Merritt
- Served as RBs Coach
- 1st Undefeated team (10-0) in 46 years of school history
- District Champs
- Ranked #2 in the class 6A State Poll
- Coach John Mosure / Miami-Dade Counties’ Player of the Year / 1st team all state
- 2006-2010 – (3A) Barron Collier High School, Naples, FL
- Hired by Billy Sparacio / Retained by Coach Mark Ivey
- Serve as RBs Coach
- 3 time District Champs
- Coached Greg Williams, Mitch MacClugage, Quin Thornton and Torrey Campbell
- 2014-present – Community School of Naples Head Middle School Coach
- Turned a winless and scoreless program in 2014 to a 6-2 program in 2015
- Currently the only football program to beat our down the road rival FBA
- 2014 lost to ECS 42-0 / 2015 beat ECS 54-13
- 2014 lost to Marco Island 28-0 / 2015 best Marco island 16-7
- 2014 lost to FBA 35-0 / 2015 beat FBA 39-0