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Bow turns to Kershaw

Josh Kershaw has spent 14 years coaching high school football with his father. This season he’ll coach against him.

Kershaw was recently named the head coach at Bow, and the first call he made when he recieved the news was to his father, Ray, who is the head coach at John Stark. Bow will play at John Stark during the 2025 regular season.

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“He said he was extremely proud of me and he’ll see me on the field,” Kershaw said. “People have been telling me it’s been dubbed the Kershaw Bowl 2025.”

Kerhsaw, 35, was an assistant coach on his father’s staff at Mascoma, at Newfound and at John Stark. Bow is his first head coaching job.

“When I was interviewing for jobs this offseason I wanted to make sure it was the right fit,” he said. “I wasn’t going to just take a job to take a job. If I didn’t find a spot that fit with what I wanted to do and my philosophy, then I was just going to go back with my dad at John Stark and try again next year.

“I really love the Bow community for a lot of reasons. One is they’re extremely supportive of their student/athletes, their sports programs and the overall success of their student/athletes, not only on the playing field, but off as well. Are these student/athletes becoming better people?

“Winning is important to me, but having the kids become more successful in their lives and setting them up for success is what’s truly important to me.”

Kershaw, who graduated from Proctor Academy in 2008, played football at Saint Anselm College and at Plymouth State, In addition to coaching with his father, he also spent on season as an assistant coach at Hillsboro-Deering Hopkinton, and one season at Kearsarge.

Kershaw currently resides in Enfield, but said he will be moving to the Concord area in the near future. He said he hopes Bow will have at least 60 players in the program next season.

“I want to build the offensive and defensive schemes around the players we have to take advantage of their strengths,” Kershaw said. “I’m not going to come in and say, ‘This is what we’re running’ and make the players fit into our offense. We need to make the offensive and defensive schemes fit into our players’s strengths, and that’s what we’re going to do.

“During the interview process I sensed a lot of  enthusiasm for the future of Bow football and where it can go. That’s something that I’m excited about because I bring a lot of energy with me. I’m excited to get going and do my own thing.”

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