Raiders’ Brett Myers moving up on Berks coaching leaders after historic season
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Bob Wolfrum has been the winningest football coach in Berks history for more than 20 years and will hold onto that distinction for at least another 20. Probably a lot, lot longer.
Wolfrum ended his 39th season at Wyomissing with 382 victories – that’s 177 more than the nearest active coach, Doug Dahms, who’s been the head coach at Wilson for 20 years. Dahms would have to continue winning at his current record rate and coach into his 90’s to catch up with Wolfrum.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for that.
Dahms and Wolfrum are among three Berks coaches with over 200 victories; Rick Keeley, who coached at Holy Name, Hamburg, and Berks Catholic, is the other.
Dahms and Wolfrum are also 1-2 on the Berks winning percentage list, at .813 and 802, respectively. There is one coach who’s gaining on them there: Twin Valley’s Brett Myers.
Myers, in four seasons with the Raiders, has won 41 games and sports a .784 winning percentage – third-highest in Berks history.
Myers and the Raiders are coming off a 14-1 season that ranks among the best in Berks history. The Raiders are 33-6 over the past three seasons — winning at an .846 clip — and have won at least one district playoff game in each of Myers’ four seasons.
Dahms cracked the 200-wins milestone in 2025; we likely won’t see another Berks coach do that for some time. Conrad Weiser’s Alan Moyer is the closest, with 152 wins, sixth-most in Berks history.
Moyer moved up a couple spots last season, passing a pair of Berks coaching legends: Wilson’s John Gurski and Governor Mifflin’s Ray Linn, each of whom won 151 times.
Exeter’s Matt Bauer moved past another Wilson standard-bearer, Gerry Slemmer. Bauer is now ninth in Berks history with 135 wins in 17 seasons. Slemmer won 129 times in 15 seasons.
Bauer ranks 11th in Berks history with a .688 winning percentage; he had been No. 10 before getting bumped out of the Top 10 by Myers.
Bauer next season can become just the ninth in Berks history to reach 200 games coached. He ended this season with 196 games.
Bruce Harbach has coached five seasons at Schuylkill Valley but if you include his 16 seasons at Lancaster Catholic his 175 wins would rank third among active Berks coaches, behind only Wolfrum and Dahms. Harbach went 139-55 with a pair of state championships at Catholic.
Including his previous stops at Pottstown and Middletown, Myers would be No. 6 among active Berks coaches with 134 wins.
Wolfrum ended the season at No. 5 on Pennsylvania’s all-time wins list, and second among active coaches. He needs 25 wins to move past former Upper St. Clair coach Jim Render into the No. 4 all-time spot but he’s never going to catch the all-time leader.
That would be Southern Columbia’s Jim Roth, who won his 524th game last month as the Tigers captured their 15th PIAA championship.
Roth would have even more wins if not for Wolfrum, who has beaten Southern Columbia in each of the teams’ three meetings, including one to open the 2025 season. That was the only game Roth and the Tigers lost.
Strath Haven’s Kevin Clancy is third among active Pennsylvania coaches and sixth overall with 377 wins, just five behind Wolfrum.
Berks’ all-time wins leaders
| Bob Wolfrum | Wyomissing Area | 1987-2025 | 382-94-1 |
| Rick Keeley | H. Name/Hamb./Berks Cath. | 1986-2023 | 280-160-3 |
| Doug Dahms | Wilson | 2006-25 | 205-47 |
| Mick Vecchio | Gov. Mifflin | 1991-95, ‘97 | 181-115-1 |
| John Yocum | Muhlenberg | 1989-2008 | 167-50-4 |
| Alan Moyer | Conrad Weiser | 2003-25 | 152-102 |
| John Gurski | Wilson | 1964-82 | 151-44 |
| Ray Linn | West Reading/Mifflin | 1951-54, ‘56-73, ‘85-87 | 151-82-7 |
| Matt Bauer | Exeter | 2009-25 | 135-61 |
| Gerry Slemmer | Wilson | 1983-97 | 129-42 |
| Don Thomas | Exeter | 1959-82 | 123-99-6 |
| Al Silveri | Conrad Weiser | 1988-2002 | 102-60-2 |
| Jack Paris | Wyomissing/Mifflin | 1974-86, ‘88-90 | 89-67-5 |
| Ron Zeiber | Exeter/Boyertown | 1993-2007 | 89-75 |
| Andy Stopper | Reading High | 1947-61 | 87-74-7 |
| Steve Hydock | Central Catholic | 1950-64 | 82-44-5 |
| Dave Bodolus | Daniel Boone | 2003-11 | 79-28 |
| Charlie Gebensleben | Wyomissing High | 1951-66 | 79-45-6 |
| Ferdie Kuczala | Conrad Weiser | 1969-82 | 76-56-1 |
