Trial is reset for former Ashtabula County coach

JEFFERSON — A jury trial scheduled to begin Monday in Ashtabula County Common Pleas Court for former Ashtabula Star Beacon sports editor and former high school coach Donald McCormack has been reset to April 5.

McCormack, 51, of Erie Street is charged with single felony counts of gross sexual imposition and endangering children and three felony counts of sexual battery. He also faces two misdemeanor charges of sexual imposition. He’s accused of sexual misconduct involving several former female basketball players he coached while assistant basketball coach at Jefferson Area High School around 1991 and around 1999. The girls were 16 or 17 years old.

The newspaper fired McCormack after he was charged in August. The school district announced Aug. 19 that McCormack had resigned his supplemental coaching contract with the district June 9.

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