Niles expects to pick coach soon

By JORDAN COHEN

VINDICATOR CORRESPONDENT

NILES — Several Niles High School football players got the answers they were looking for at the board of education meeting Thursday night: By this time next month, their new football coach should be on the job.

The answer came in response to an inquiry from Max Plevyak, a junior, who told the board the team is concerned because the position is still unfilled.

“We’re behind in our preparation for next season,” Plevyak said. “We have to get ready.”

They won’t have to wait very long. Superintendent Rocco Adduci said he expects to have the coach on staff by the time the board meets Feb. 21, its next regularly scheduled meeting.

“I plan to place [the new coach] on the job after calling the board members preceding the next meeting,” Adduci said.

The position has been vacant since Tim Johnson resigned in December, and an eight-member search committee has been reviewing applications. Board member Robert Limongi, a committee member, said the group is conducting reference checks and has narrowed the field from 17 applications down to eight.

“We expect to have a recommendation by the end of next week,” Limongi said.

Plevyak and several other players who attended the meeting told Adduci afterward that they were satisfied.