Youngstown BOE names assistant coach head football coach at East

YOUNGSTOWN

Jerron Jenkins is the new head football coach of the East High School Panthers.

The city school board approved Jenkins’ hiring at a meeting tonight. The previous coach resigned. Jenkins served as an assistant. His salary will be based on a percentage of a teacher’s salary.

Jenkins’ hiring had been on the agenda at the Dec. 8 school board meeting but was tabled. It wasn’t on tonight’s meeting agenda, but Richard Atkinson, board member, made a motion to hire Jenkins after the board convened from an executive session. Tonight’s vote followed an impassioned plea by another assistant coach who told board members that a coach had to be appointed soon because he feared players leaving and enrolling in other schools.