He was one of the best athletes to ever call the Lancaster-Lebanon League home.
He starred in football, basketball and track at Garden Spot before moving on to play football at Villanova.
He was a dual threat in football, where he played defensive back, wideout and quarterback, and he also returned punts and kicks.
He once scored 60 points in a basketball game (I was there; it was quite a night).
And he was a multiple gold-medal-winner in track.
He is Curtis Waltman. And the former Garden Spot star is back in the L-L League, this time as head football coach at Pequea Valley.
Here’s my story from Tuesday’s New Era:
Curtis Waltman is back in the Lancaster-Lebanon League.
The former Garden Spot three-sport star will be Pequea Valley’s new head football coach, the New Era has learned.
It will be his first head-coaching job.
Reached Monday night, Waltman, a Villanova grad who played Division I-AA football for the Wildcats, said he couldn’t comment until after Pequea Valley’s school board meeting on Feb. 8.
If the board approves Waltman as the Braves’ next head coach, he will succeed Jon Long (another former Garden Spot standout) who resigned his post last fall after Pequea Valley finished 1-9 overall – and just 1-29 under Long the last three seasons.
Waltman, a 2001 Garden Spot grad, will inherit a program that is going through some tough times. The Braves won just one game last year – a 21-19 Week 3 non-league victory over Fleetwood – and that snapped a 26-game losing streak dating back to Oct. 3, 2003.
The Braves scored just 14 points in the entire 2005 season.
In Waltman, Pequea Valley will get a coach who enjoyed an outstanding playing career while at Garden Spot and Villanova.
The 23-year-old former New Era Male Athlete of the Year, who teaches math at Pequea Valley, starred in football, basketball and track at Garden Spot.
In football, he was a two-time Second Team All-State selection who dominated at wideout early in his career and then at quarterback in his senior season, when he rushed for 1,272 yards – second-most in the L-L League.
In basketball, Waltman scored an incredible 1,044 points in his senior season – an L-L League record for most points in a year – including an unforgettable 60-point night (another L-L League record), and he finished his career with 2,689 points. He was named Second Team All-State in his senior year.
And in track, he won the L-L League and District 3 400-meter run in both his junior and senior seasons.
Waltman accepted a football scholarship offer from Villanova, where he played wideout for the Wildcats.
After his time on the Main Line, he served as an assistant football coach at Coatesville High School and then at Stevens Tech.
He is also engaged and is set to be married on Feb. 24.
And next fall, Waltman will be back prowling L-L League sidelines, this time as a head coach.
JEFFREY REINHART
