Former longtime Montgomery football coach Zoran Milich will be honored with the field at Cougar Stadium being renamed in his honor. Milich, sixth from the left, is shown with some of his original staff, and school officials including Principal Heather Pino-Beattie (far right) and Athletic Director Kris Grundy, next to last on right. (Submitted Photo)
He spent nearly a quarter century coaching Montgomery football, but that’s not even half the story.
Zoran Milich won over 100 games over 23 varsity seasons after starting the program from scratch, and that’s still not even the whole story.
He built it from the ground up, guiding hundreds upon hundreds of student-athletes, on and off the field. He was a teacher, coach, mentor and friend. And for those who don’t know, now everyone will know.
On Tuesday, the school unveiled its plans to honor Milich – who’s still teaching there, just not coaching football for the first time in a long time – by renaming the football field in his honor, with a sign over the entrance that also explains how Milich was all four of those things.
The sign will read “Welcome to Cougar Stadium: Zoran Milich Field.” Athletic Director Kris Grundy says that will go up in the next week or so.
A sign proclaiming “Milich Field” also will be placed on a sign atop the scoreboard, centered around the Montgomery “M” logo; Grundy says that will be unveiled at halftime the Cougars’ October 3rd home game against Linden.
Milich stepped down from the program over the winter, in the off-season, and his offensive coordinator, Sean Carty, was chosen as his successor. So far, so good, by the way, as the Cougars came away with a season-opening overtime win over Hopewell Valley in Week Zero. They host Summit Friday night.
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