John Kaleo is a retired American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 quarterback

Quarterback

Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...

 in the Arena Football League for the Albany Firebirds

Indiana Firebirds

The Indiana Firebirds were a team in the Arena Football League.The team was based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Home games were played at the Conseco Fieldhouse, also the home of the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association and Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball...

 (1993), Cleveland Thunderbolts

Cleveland Thunderbolts

The Cleveland Thunderbolts were a professional American football team in the Arena Football League.-Columbus Thunderbolts:Established as the Columbus Thunderbolts and playing its home games at the Ohio Expo Center Coliseum, the team relocated to Cleveland after a winless single season in the Arena...

 (1994), St. Louis Stampede

St. Louis Stampede

The St. Louis Stampede was a team in the Arena Football League. The Stampede competed in the 1995 and 1996 seasons, playing their home games in the Kiel Center , also the home of the St...

 (1995–1996), Anaheim Piranhas

Anaheim Piranhas

The Anaheim Piranhas were a professional arena football team that played in the Arena Football League from 1994 - 1997. They played their home games at Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California. The team was originally known as the Las Vegas Sting, prior to moving to Anaheim in 1996. The team was owned...

 (1997), San Jose SaberCats

San Jose SaberCats

The San Jose SaberCats are a professional arena football team in the Arena Football League. They began play as a 1995 expansion team. They played in the Western Division of the American Conference. Their final coach in the original Arena Football League was Darren Arbet, who will be a part of the...

 (1997), New England Sea Wolves

Toronto Phantoms

The Toronto Phantoms was the final name of a team in the Arena Football League, that also operated in New York City and Hartford, Connecticut.-New York CityHawks :The team began in 1997 as the New York CityHawks...

 (1999), Tampa Bay Storm

Tampa Bay Storm

The Tampa Bay Storm are an Arena Football League team based in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. They play their home games in the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa....

 (2000-2003, 2007), Austin Wranglers

Austin Wranglers

The Austin Wranglers were an arena football team based in Austin, Texas. They played four seasons in the Arena Football League from 2004 to 2007 and spent one season in AF2, the AFL's developmental league, in 2008. They made playoff appearances in the AFL in 2006 and in AF2 in 2008...

 (2004), Los Angeles Avengers

Los Angeles Avengers

The Los Angeles Avengers was an Arena Football League team based in Los Angeles, California from 2000 through 2008. They folded on April 19, 2009.-History:...

 (2005), and Columbus Destroyers

Columbus Destroyers

The Columbus Destroyers were an Arena Football League team based in Columbus, Ohio. The team was founded in as the Buffalo Destroyers, based in Buffalo, New York, and relocated to Columbus in . They folded along with the original incarnation of the AFL following the 2008 season, after a total of...

 (2006). He won ArenaBowl XVII

ArenaBowl XVII

ArenaBowl XVII was played on June 22, 2003 at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida before a sellout crowd of 20,496. The Tampa Bay Storm earned their AFL record fifth ArenaBowl title, by defeating the Arizona Rattlers, 43-29...

 with the Storm in 2003. He retired from playing after the 2007 season

2007 Arena Football League season

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, and currently the Offensive Coordinator for the Tampa Bay Storm. Prior to this role, he was quarterbacks coach

Quarterbacks coach

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 and offensive coordinator

Offensive coordinator

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 at Iona College

Iona College (New York)

Iona College is located in New Rochelle, New York, 20 miles north of Manhattan in suburban Westchester County. The college occupies 35 acres on North Ave. The college also operates a Graduate Center in Pearl River, Rockland County, New York....

 in New Rochelle, New York

New Rochelle, New York

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High school career

John Kaleo attended South River High School

South River High School (Maryland)

South River High School is a public high school in Edgewater, Maryland. It was built in 1978 and has 2060 students currently enrolled. It received a Blue Ribbon in education...

 in Edgewater, Maryland and Bowie High School

Prince George's County Public Schools

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 in Bowie, Maryland

Bowie, Maryland

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. John Kaleo was a one year varsity

Varsity team

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 starter

Starting lineup

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 at South River High School and two year starter at quarterback on the Bowie High football team, and also played basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, track & field

Track and field

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, and baseball

Baseball

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College career

Kaleo attended Montgomery College

Montgomery College

Montgomery College is a public, open access community college located in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. in the United States. The college has three campuses, the largest of which is in Rockville; the other campuses are in Takoma Park/Silver Spring and Germantown...

 for two years. As a sophomore, he was a Junior College All-American, the NJCAA Player of the Year, and was voted the JUCO Player of the Year by the Washington D.C. Touchdown Club

Washington D.C. Touchdown Club

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Kaleo then transferred to the University of Maryland

University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...

 for his final two seasons. As a senior, he set single-season school records in passing yards (3,392), completions (286), attempts (482), total yards (3,472) as well as single-game touchdown passes with five. After his senior year, he participated in the Blue-Gray Football Classic

Blue-Gray Football Classic

The Blue–Gray Football Classic was an annual American college football all-star game held in Alabama usually on Christmas Day. It was begun in 1939 and held annually through 2001 at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama. The game was not contested in 2002 and was subsequently revived in 2003 in...

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Coaching career

He served two seasons, 2007 and 2008, as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Iona College

Iona College (New York)

Iona College is located in New Rochelle, New York, 20 miles north of Manhattan in suburban Westchester County. The college occupies 35 acres on North Ave. The college also operates a Graduate Center in Pearl River, Rockland County, New York....

 Gaels

Iona Gaels

The Iona Gaels are part of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and participate in twenty-two NCAA Division I programs. Other members of the MAAC include Canisius College, Fairfield University, Loyola University Maryland, Manhattan College, Marist College, Niagara University, Rider University, St...

. Newly hired Towson

Towson Tigers

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 head coach Rob Ambrose

Rob Ambrose

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selected Kaleo as his quarterbacks coach.

External links

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