01/24/2023
Coach Ted Ginn Sr. Is this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award hosted by
Ginn has served as head football coach of the Glenville Tarblooders since 1997. His nationally recognized coaching program, Winning and Building a Team Against All Odds, led the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) team to its first state title during Ohio State Athletic Association’s (OHSAA) Division IV championship game on Dec. 3, 2022 at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.
Prior to securing the Tarblooder’s first state title in school history, Ginn helped establish the Ginn Academy, an all-boys high school for urban youth in the greater Cleveland area, in 2007.
His coaching and mentorship have assisted over 300 student-athletes in attending college post-high school graduation, including providing more than 100 scholarships for Division I schools. This effort secured the Tarblooder’s program a third-place national ranking for student-athlete recipients of Division I scholarships.
Ginn is a member of the Cleveland YMCA Board of Trustees and the Collinwood Neighborhood Village Development Corporation. He also serves as a trustee for the National Association for the Education of African American Children.
As of 2022, 22 National Football League (NFL) players from Glenville have gone through Ginn’s coaching and mentorship program.
Ginn has been featured in Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Who’s Who in Black Cleveland and Your Teen Magazine. He received the Double Duty Dad Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative (2008), was recognized by the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association for achieving 200 victories at Glenville High School (2019) and is ranked in the top 100 of all time for victories as an OHSAA coach.
