As a mentor, Wendell Fevrine gets it

He’s more than a coach. A teacher, perhaps. A mentor, maybe. Perhaps a role model.

 Wendell Fevrine, an Assistant Football Coach on the staff at New Utrecht High School says he has his “dream job.”

And on Saturday, he shares his dream at New Utrecht’s Second Annual Football Alumni Career Day.

“Our Utrecht family is striving to be international about showing the 2023 football team that the values they are developing will translate directly into their professional lives,” Fevrine said.

New Utrecht football has a special place in the life of Wendell Fevrine – he played his high school football for the Green and White.

“At this point,” he said, “It ain’t even about me no more. I don’t even think about my playing career, I just like working with the kids. That’s just my purpose. I’ve been around these kids so long, longer that I played there.”

In fact, Fevrine’s mother didn’t let him play football. 

“My mother never let me go anywhere, so I would sneak away and tell her I’m at a cousin’s house or something,” he said. “The grown men in the neighborhood would play tackle football. All the drug dealers and those guys would just go to the park and play tackle football. I would play with them, but I was 12. I would be scoring like five touchdowns and breaking out.”

As a senior at New Utrecht Fevrine was getting recruited by eight or nine schools. “By the third game of the year I already had 600 yards rushing. The fourth game I was injured – a thigh bruise – and that was my season.”

The University of Florida, New Haven, Rhode Island and Pace were still on his radar – and he decided on Pace – for education and football.

Next stop –the regional combine.

“If you do well at regional,” he said, “You get an invite to Indianapolis.”

With three running backs under contract, the Montreal…