Stephen Moriarty earns 2026 Coach of the Week honor after Tippecanoe Valley’s 39-13 win puts title pressure on

Tippecanoe Valley head coach Stephen Moriarty has been named the 2026 Coach of the Week for Week 8 after the Class 3A Vikings built on their best stretch of the season with a 39-13 win over John Glenn, according to an NFL-recognized high school football feature published by on Oct. 12, 2026. The honor follows a week where Tippecanoe Valley’s record improved to 7-1 and its run of results tightened the Indiana Northern State Conference title picture.

The Vikings’ latest performance came in the form of a controlled, two-sided game against John Glenn. Tippecanoe Valley scored 39 points, holding John Glenn to 13, in a matchup that moved the Vikings closer to the conference’s top spot. With the win, the team positioned itself to at least share the Northern State Conference championship, a meaningful standard for a conference race that typically hinges on head-to-head outcomes and late-season consistency.

Moriarty, who leads Tippecanoe Valley’s program, earns the weekly recognition as part of the award’s emphasis on coaching impact during a specific week’s results. In this case, the decisive scoreline and the improvement to a 7-1 overall mark were central to the case for the honor, tying the award to both performance on the field and the momentum created late in the season.

Conference titles in Indiana high school football can determine everything from local bragging rights to playoff seeding considerations, and a spot to win, or at minimum share, the Northern State Conference crown raises the stakes for the remainder of the Vikings’ schedule. Tippecanoe Valley’s task now is to convert that improved positioning into a final stretch of games that prevents the conference race from flipping back toward other contenders.

John Glenn, meanwhile, remains in the conversation as a measured yardstick even in defeat. A 39-13 score suggests Tippecanoe Valley’s game plan and execution produced points consistently, while John Glenn was limited in its ability to keep the contest within a reachable margin. How each team responds in its next outing will clarify whether the loss was an outlier or a reflection of where each program stands as the season heads into its final weeks.

The immediate thing to watch next for Tippecanoe Valley is whether the Vikings can protect the conference championship scenario created by the Week 8 win. Because the award material specifically notes that the result puts the team in position to win at least a share of the title, the remaining weeks carry both psychological weight and practical consequences for determining who claims the conference at season’s end.