CALDWELL, N.J. — Ted Evans, a longtime educator and coach at Paramus High School, has been named head coach of Caldwell University’s women’s flag football program, Assistant Vice President and Director of Athletics Mark A. Corino announced.
Evans, who has coached flag football, football and basketball, will lead the Cougars in their inaugural season of competition in spring 2027.
In addition to teaching sports marketing and financial literacy at Paramus High School, Evans founded the school’s first flag football team in 2023. In his first year as head coach, he was named the Flag High School Football Coach of the Week Game Changer in association with the New York Jets.
In four seasons at Paramus, Evans compiled a 20-15-2 record, led the Spartans to two Super Football Conference playoff appearances, and guided the team to a 6-5 record in 2026, including victories in four of the team’s final six games. His players have earned All-Super Football Conference, All-State and All-American honors, and several have gone on to play flag football at the collegiate club level.
Evans also served as director of the prestigious U.S. Army All-America Flag Bowl Football Game (now known as the Military Appreciation Bowl), held at The Star in Frisco, Texas, showcasing the nation’s top flag football players.
“Coach Evans brings exceptional experience in this relatively new sport that will help us immensely in hitting the ground running this year,” Corino told Pascack Press on July 6. “He has built a successful program from scratch, and his work with the U.S. Army Bowl ties him in well to the flag football scene as we open play in the CACC and ECAC.”
Evans replaces T.J. Kroncke, who had been named Caldwell’s head flag football coach earlier this year but was later appointed head sprint football coach and will instead assume those duties.
A native of Woodcliff Lake and graduate of St. Joseph Regional High School in Montvale, Evans earned his degree from Hofstra University in 1990. A three-year letter winner for the then-Flying Dutchmen, he began his teaching and coaching career with a stop at his alma mater, where he was part of state championship teams in 2008 and 2009 and coached an undefeated freshman squad in 2010. He was named head football coach at Dumont High School in 2012 before returning to Paramus, where he launched the school’s flag football program.
“I look forward to the challenge of building a brand-new college program and working with collegiate student-athletes,” Evans said. “I’m excited that Caldwell University has seen the value of the sport so early in its development at the NCAA level and that Mr. Corino and the staff here have entrusted me to put Caldwell on the flag football map.”
Evans lives in Woodcliff Lake with his wife, Terri. They have three adult children — Matt, Mackenzie and Megan — all of whom attended Rutgers University. His daughters competed as collegiate rowers, while his son played club lacrosse.
Caldwell’s NCAA Division II teams competing in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference include men’s and women’s soccer, basketball, lacrosse, cross country, and track and field, along with women’s volleyball, women’s bowling, softball and baseball. Sprint football competes in the Collegiate Sprint Football League, while acrobatics and tumbling competes in the National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association.