Face Lift At Northern Nash

Life will be different for students who go to school at Northern Nash when they report for the first day of school in late August.  The paint scrapers were out between Thanksgiving and Christmas getting all the old paint off and then Athletic Director Dan Richwalski dropped a bombshell when he announced that Northern had hired former Hunt football coach Randy Raper to take over the football program.  Raper a graduate of Hunt and after college returned to Hunt where he has spent his entire life in the football program and we all know that Hunt over the last 25 years is one of the top football 3-A programs in the East.

Then late in basketball season Dam Richwalski stepped down as Athletic Director and Patricia Haggerty was named the interim AD while Northern looked for the full time Athletic Director.  By the end of baseball season Eddie Loesner had resigned as baseball coach.

Since the end of baseball season the new coats of paint are apparent throughout Northern.  Michael (Chip) Hodges has been bumped up to the Central office and has been replaced as Principal by Chad Thompson who comes to Northern from Red Oak.

Patricia Haggerty is not longer the interim AD but has been hire full time.  Coach Haggerty has been within the athletic program for a long time at Northern  and having worked with her both through coaching and as AD she is a good choice for the job.

Late last week the last opening of the big three sports at any high school was named when former assistant baseball coach Leonard Allen who of late has been the baseball coach at Bunn High school was named to replace Loesner.  Allen who has never  moved from the area and commuted to Bunn every day was an assistant baseball coach under former Northern Coach Al Carter. 

Those who have business at Northern Nash as a student, spectator or media person will find there is a new green every where the next time you visit Northern Nash.