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“Dedicated, hilarious, mentor.”
These were the three words senior and varsity baseball player Matthew Kane used to describe varsity baseball coach Mr. Brian Fili.
Coach Fili and assistant varsity football coach Mike Connor led their students into Districts victories in the Central Athletic League during the 2022-2023 seasons.
They will both be officially inducted into the Delco Athletes Hall of Fame at the 2024 Induction Dinner on Sunday, April 21—Fili, for his accomplishments as a baseball coach, and Connor for his record as a football player.
“I think I speak for a lot of people that [Fili] has been the greatest coach that I’ve ever had, and I’m really excited for this year with him,” Kane said.
Fili was inspired by other mentors he had.
“For example, my college baseball coach was also a teacher, he was a high school teacher,” Fili said. “I originally wanted to be a pre-med major at Villanova, and when I decided that was going to be really tough, to play baseball at Villanova and also be a pre-med major, I switched my major to education and wanted to become a teacher because of the teacher and coach that I had.”
