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Genoa Welcomes New Athletic Director

New Department Structure

On June 27^th, the Genoa Board of Education officially hired the district’s new athletic director for grades 7 – 12, Dan Hartsel.

Dan comes to Genoa from Heidelberg College where he served over the last eleven years, at various times, as assistant men’s basketball coach, assistant women’s basketball coach and men’s and women’s golf coach. His prior athletic department experience includes working at Vanlue Local Schools as athletic director and boy’s basketball coach. He also spent fourteen years as a project engineer for SMI Crankshaft – Norton’s Manufacturing in Fostoria.

Dan will officially take over duties in the athletic department on Aug. 1^st. He is replacing Mike Thomas who will retire January 1, 2018.

Along with Dan’s hiring comes a restructuring of the athletic department. Dan will be the sole athletic director, however, he will be assisted by three “faculty managers” whose responsibilities will be to provide help with both home and away event coverage. They will assist with setup and coverage of some home events and provide “administrative” representation at various away events.