NEAFL COMMISSIONER
JOHN CIEPLENSKI
THE NEAFL is proud to have John Cieplenski as its Commissioner, for the last 15 years .
** Born in Whitesboro, NY John grew up playing Midget Football for the Whitesboro Warriors Pop Warner Football Organization. He recieved many outstanding lineman awards.
John later Played 2 years for Whitesboros Junior High team as a 7th and 8th grader.
**** John moved to Vineland NJ , where he played four years of football for Vineland High School and received All Cape Atlantic and All South Jersey honors for offense and defense as a Center and a DT.
** A brief College career after going to School at Rowen and Cumberland in NJ , John's football career was thought to be done.
**Then John went on to play Semi Pro Football for the Cape May County Devils , the New Jersey Knights , the South Jersey Giants , the South Jersey Mastadons , where he then retired from football . After a 2 year retirement John returned to play one more year with the New Jersey Pitbulls until finally retiring for good.
**In those years John was an All star in the IFL, NAFL, DFL, and the ECFA. As well as being an All Star .
**John had National All American honors 6 times at 4 different positions.
**Later in Las Vegas Nevada, John was inducted into the American Football Neaws Minor League Football Hall of Fame.
Beside playing football John dedicated coaching youth football in Millville , NJ from 2005 to 2013, where he coached 120 wins and only 16 loses
*From 2010 to 2016, John was an active board member of the Arena Football League (AFL) Philadelphia Soul.
* Helped launch and creat rhe IGL Indoor Gridiron League indoor footbal league to compliment the Phialdephia Soul, . All games were played at rhe Well Fargo Center.
* 2013 helped CoachTeam Navy to victory vs. Army in the first ever Indoor Army/Navy Football game on Comcast Sports Network.
*2011 to 2012 was North Commissioner and created the NEAFC and joined with the ECFA . The ECFA seen its biggest growth to that date.
**2013 He managed to build the NEAFL and go on his own , and it has been one of the most Equally , fair , professional, and respected ran leagues on the East Coast and the Nation .
**2013 John built the XEFL - Xtreme East Football League for the Fall football season, and was a success , and now entering its 11th season in 2023.
*With a career around football , and all John has done for the sport we all love , we are glad and honored to have him as our Commissioner of the NEAFL
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