5 Facts About Biff Poggi Wife Amy Poggi And Their Children

Biff Poggi is an American football coach. He is the former assistant head coach of St. Frances Academy.

Before heading to coaching, the football coach played football with Dan Marino, a retired football quarterback, at Pitt, before heading off to pursue a prosperous career as a Hedge Fund manager.

After 19 years, Biff Poggi left St. Frances Academy and its football team in 2016 to take a position as the associate head football coach at the University of Michigan. He helped the school win 13 state championships and place No. 13 in the 2015 USA TODAY High School Sports Super 25 rankings. His remarkable 135-43 career record was as the team’s head coach.

Poggi was also part of the HBO documentary series ‘The Cost of Winning,’ where his contribution to school football has been described.

As per the documentary, Poggi even invested his own money, about USD 2.5 million, to build the school’s youth academy. 

The success of Biff Poggi is all due to receiving an immense amount of support from his wife and children. 

Helping others was among the most crucial lessons Biff Poggi instilled in his family. He has assisted numerous people throughout his life, including young athletes who needed housing. Here are some interesting facts about his family members.

Football coach Biff Poggi has been happily married to his wife, Amy Poggi, for over three decades. They met at Duke University. 

With his wife, Biff has endowed the Poggi Pediatric Orthopaedic Research Scholar Award to extend his interest in teaching and mentorship.

Biff Poggi and his wife, Amy Poggi, are the parents of four children. They share three sons and two daughters.

Henry, Sam, and Jim Poggi are the sons of Biff Poggi and Amy Poggi. The name of their daughters is Mellie and Marry Poggi.

Biff Poggi has coached all his children, and as a result, they played for some of the top collegiate teams.

Biff Poggi’s son, Henry, is 6 feet 4 inches tall. He is a big 257 pounds football fullback.

Sam, Biff Poggi’s other son, was also a collegiate football player. He moved to play collegiate football at Duke University and the University of Michigan, respectively. As of now, he is following in his father’s footsteps as a football coach.

Sam also served as one of the defensive lines coaches at Gilman School, a famous boys’ school in Maryland, where he coached his brother Henry Poggi and Melvin Keihn, a friend of Henry. Sam also gained a lot of coaching and social skills knowledge from his father.

Jim Poggi was one of Maryland’s top high school football prospects when he played at Gilman School (Baltimore), as mentioned in this ESPN article from 2009. He had scholarship offers from more than 20 prestigious institutions.

Jim finally enrolled at the University of Iowa. He then played collegiate football for the school’s football team for four years.

Poggi’s eldest daughter, Mellie, is 19 years old. While his youngest daughter, Marry, turned 14 this year.

Per her Instagram, Mellie is studying at the UMD Medical School in Baltimore. Her sister, Marry, started school at UM last year.