Tennent, Truman and Abington have openings for football coaches
William Tennent, Harry S. Truman and Abington are looking for high school football head coaches.
Tennent's Rich Clemens learned late last week that he wouldn't be back after the Panthers went 1-8 during the 2022 season, which ended October 28-29 for teams that didn't qualify for the PIAA District One playoffs. Tennent dropped all five of its Suburban One League American Conference games.
Clemens, a teacher of gifted students at Log College Middle School, went 10-35 in his five years as Tennent coach after taking over a program that had lost 22 in a row. The Panthers haven't qualified for the district playoffs since 2006 under Biz Keeny.
At Truman, former coach Ben Johnson resigned Oct. 6 with the Tigers at 2-4. Johnson assistant James Freeman handled Truman's final four games as interim coach on the way to a 2-8 record (1-5 in the SOL Continental).
Johnson was 11-19 since being hired in February 2019.
Athletic director Tim Monaghan said Truman is "in the process of determining what our search or process may look like" and the job hasn't been posted yet.
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Abington coach Kevin Conlin resigned following a 2-8 season (0-7 in the SOL National Conference), which athletic director Todd Vaccaro confirmed. A social studies teacher at the high school, Conlin had been the Ghosts' coach since succeeding Tim Sorber following the 2015 season.
A Ghosts assistant from 1999-2013, Conlin compiled a 29-39 mark as Abington coach, highlighted by an 8-3 season in 2019, which ended with a wild first-round district playoff home loss to Plymouth Whitemarsh 56-42.
Conlin played offensive line on Penn State's undefeated 1994 team that won the Big Ten championship and defeated Oregon in the Rose Bowl.
Tom Moore: tmoore@couriertimes; @TomMoorePhilly
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