Ron Silva’s first athletic accomplishments came in junior high school track, where he captured the State cross country title and set state records in the four hundred meters and fifteen hundred meters.

(At the Hershey National Boys Championships he was an “initial qualifying winner” in both the four hundred and fifteen hundred.)

In basketball he received the St. Brendan’s CYO Basketball League’s Stephen F. Mullin, Jr. Award in 1980.

As a Warren High School junior, he achieved first team All Class B Small Football honors. 

Then named co-captain of the Redskins eleven in 1983, Ron led the team to the Class B Small Championship, in the process garnering first team  All State and first team All Class B Small honors.

At the University of New Hampshire he played football, once returning home to be the guest speaker  at the Youth Football League end-of-season banquet.

Beginning in the late 1980s Ron coached Warren/Swansea Pop Warner football  for more than a decade, leading the Midget squads to divisional and state titles in the process. 

Around the turn of the century he went back to his first love and started (and coached) cross country, track, and basketball programs at Kickemuit Middle School.

In 2004 he returned to coaching Pop Warner football, this time in Barrington.  For the next three seasons he led the same group of boys to the Junior Midget state finals, the  Midget New England finals, and the high school freshmen state championship.

In 2007 Ron was named the head football coach at Mount Hope High School, where he still serves today.  He will be an assistant coach for the Rhode Island All Stars when they play the Connecticut  All Stars in June of 2009.