LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Presented By Union Home Mortgage

Ted Ginn, Sr. 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 against Cincinnati Wyoming on Dec. 3, 2022 at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.

Prior to securing the Tarblooder’s first football 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 programs 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 has a record for mentoring former successful high school football players including 2006 Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith along with Donte Whitner, Cardale Jones, Marshawn Latimore, Justin Hardee, Shane Wynn and Pierre Woods.

Additionally, Ginn coached Ted Ginn, Jr., his son and former wide receiver, who played in the NFL for 14 seasons with the Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals, Carolina Panthers, New Orleans Saints and Chicago Bears. As of 2022, 22 National Football League (NFL) players from Glenville have gone through Ginn’s coaching and mentorship program.

Ginn has led the Tarblooders to eight consecutive Senate Athletic League wins between 1997 and 2009. Additionally, Glenville became the first CMSD school to reach the state playoffs, making 10 subsequent appearances from 2000 to 2010.

In 2002, Ginn was named head coach of the Glenville High School Boys’ Track team leading them to five state championship titles between 2004-2007, 2014 and most recently in 2022, where they gained their first Division II win.

Ginn was named head coach for the 2006 All-American Bowl where he secured a win for the East. That year he was also awarded Man of the Year from the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc., High School Football Coach of the Year by the National Black Coaches’ Association and was inducted into the Glenville High School Hall of Fame.

Ginn and his wife, Jeanette, live in Cleveland and are proud parents of two children, Tiffany and Ted, Jr. and three grandchildren, Theodore III, Kyrsten and Kendall.

Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Union Home Mortgage is given to a person who has dedicated their lives to the advancement of sports in Cleveland. Past recipients have ranged from former Guardians franchise greats and Browns legends to high school football coaches in the region.