Biography:

Biography:

Coach McDonough has been an educator (teacher, coach, principal and superintendent) for his entire professional career. He has a BA from Suffolk, an MA from U. Maine at Orono, and a JD from Franklin Pierce.  McDonough has coached football for over twenty years in NH, MA and ME for the Timberlane Owls, St. Sebastian Arrows, Hebron Academy Lumberjacks, Traip Academy Rangers, and most notably for thirteen years as the Head Coach for the Wells Warriors where his team’s won four Western Maine Championships and a Class B State Championship in 1997. He joined us in 2020 and is delighted to be with the St. Thomas Aquinas football program. He resides in Wells, Maine with his wife, Pam.  Go Saints!

Biography:

Biography:

Jeff joins the 2023 Saints Varsity Football Team as an Assistant Coach
under Coach McDonough. Jeff was raised in a high school football
household where his father was a high school teacher and football
coach for over 30 years. He played football from Pop Warner through
the college level and in 1986 served as an Assistant Coach for the
Winnacunnet Warriors in Hampton. He had the honor of assisting his
father in coaching the 1989 NH Shrine Team to victory over the
Vermont Shrine Team. After graduating from UNH in 1990, Jeff spent
his adult life serving the public as a career firefighter/paramedic until
his retirement from the Exeter Fire Department in 2018. Jeff now
serves his community as a part-time Assistant Fire Chief in his
hometown of Lee. He has two adult sons and lives with his long-time
partner Marie, as well as their two dogs Ellie and Bodie. Jeff enjoys
camping, hunting and fishing as well as traveling in his time off. He is
excited for the opportunity to work with the Saints staff in mentoring
and teaching the Saints on and off the field.