Rich Alercio

Director

RecFit

Rich Alercio has worked for St Johsnbury Academy since 2013.  He began as an Assistant Athletic Director and Head Football Coach.  In 2015, he became the Director or RecFit; and in 2022 Director of the Recreation Department was added to his responsibilities.   Rich has a USA Olympic Weightlifting Certification, is the President of the Vermont Football Coaches Association and a member of the following organizations: American Football Coaches Association, National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, and Vermont Softball Umpires Association.  He sits on the board of Discover St Johnsbury.   In 2017, Rich was named Vermont Division 1 Football Coach of the Year.  In 2018, Northern New Hampshire Northeast Kingdom Vermont all sports Coach of the Year.  And in 2020, MaxPreps named Rich Vermont’s top high school football coach.   Before coming to St Johnsbury, Rich spent 25 years as a college football coach at West Chester University, East Stroudsburg University, The College of New Jersey, and Castleton University.  In July, 2008, Alercio was featured in American Football Monthly where he was described as “a guru of offensive line play in the northeast part of the country. Alercio speaks annually at the largest football clinics in the country, USA Football National Conference, Glazier Mega Clinics and Nike Coach of the Year Clinics.  He is the original offensive line contributor to xandolabs.com.  He has run the Alercio OLine Clinics for over 20 years in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Vermont and has written hundreds of blogs on his site olineskills.com