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Green, Ohio —
Experience matters.
That’s especially true when it comes at a school that is roughly the same.
And it’s why Bruce Johnson is the choice of Green High School Principal Cindy Brown to be the school’s new athletic director.
Brown told The Suburbanite Thursday morning that she is recommending Johnson, formerly the athletic director at Howland High School near Warren, Ohio, to Superintendent Michael Nutter. Nutter and the Green Board of Education are expected to act on that recommendation at the board’s next meeting, set for May 21.
One of three finalists for the job, all of whom received second interviews with Brown on Tuesday night, the 57-year-old Johnson got the nod over Berlin (Ohio) Hiland High School Athletic Director Erik Beun and Manchester High School Assistant Principal Anthony Hite.
“We’re getting somebody who not only served as an athletic director for a long time, but also did so at a school that is similar to Green in size and other ways,” Brown said when asked what separated Johnson, the AD at Howland from 2000-08, from the other two candidates.
“In addition, he’s very charismatic, and he has a lot of ideas and values that will work very well at Green.”
Johnson, who is married with an adult son, graduated from Youngstown State University in 1979. He taught and coached boys basketball and baseball first at Mathews High School in Vienna, Ohio, near Warren, from 1979-90 and then at Chagrin Falls High School in Geauga County from 1990-2000.
After his AD stint at Howland, he served from 2009-10 as a consultant to Streetsboro when that district had a major construction project of athletic facilities.
Since then, Johnson has been at High Point (N.C.) Christian Academy as an assistant AD and an assistant coach in boys basketball and baseball.
The opening at Green was created when Mark Pfaff, who served as the school’s AD for 12 years and had worked in the school system for 23 years overall, had his contract non-renewed by the school board in March. In doing so, the board accepted Nutter’s recommendation. Brown had recommended to Nutter that Pfaff receive a new two-year contract.
Pfaff has just been hired as the AD at Kent Roosevelt High School. However, he will remain at Green through the remainder of his contract, which expires July 31.
Originally, there were 84 applicants for the Green job. Of those, 15 received interviews, and then the field was pared to the three finalists.
Experience matters.
That’s especially true when it comes at a school that is roughly the same.
And it’s why Bruce Johnson is the choice of Green High School Principal Cindy Brown to be the school’s new athletic director.
Brown told The Suburbanite Thursday morning that she is recommending Johnson, formerly the athletic director at Howland High School near Warren, Ohio, to Superintendent Michael Nutter. Nutter and the Green Board of Education are expected to act on that recommendation at the board’s next meeting, set for May 21.
One of three finalists for the job, all of whom received second interviews with Brown on Tuesday night, the 57-year-old Johnson got the nod over Berlin (Ohio) Hiland High School Athletic Director Erik Beun and Manchester High School Assistant Principal Anthony Hite.
“We’re getting somebody who not only served as an athletic director for a long time, but also did so at a school that is similar to Green in size and other ways,” Brown said when asked what separated Johnson, the AD at Howland from 2000-08, from the other two candidates.
“In addition, he’s very charismatic, and he has a lot of ideas and values that will work very well at Green.”
Johnson, who is married with an adult son, graduated from Youngstown State University in 1979. He taught and coached boys basketball and baseball first at Mathews High School in Vienna, Ohio, near Warren, from 1979-90 and then at Chagrin Falls High School in Geauga County from 1990-2000.
After his AD stint at Howland, he served from 2009-10 as a consultant to Streetsboro when that district had a major construction project of athletic facilities.
Since then, Johnson has been at High Point (N.C.) Christian Academy as an assistant AD and an assistant coach in boys basketball and baseball.
The opening at Green was created when Mark Pfaff, who served as the school’s AD for 12 years and had worked in the school system for 23 years overall, had his contract non-renewed by the school board in March. In doing so, the board accepted Nutter’s recommendation. Brown had recommended to Nutter that Pfaff receive a new two-year contract.
Pfaff has just been hired as the AD at Kent Roosevelt High School. However, he will remain at Green through the remainder of his contract, which expires July 31.
Originally, there were 84 applicants for the Green job. Of those, 15 received interviews, and then the field was pared to the three finalists.
