DADE CITY - The vacant athletic director's job at Pasco High has drawn eight applicants, including four current coaches at the school.
Among the candidates to replace longtime athletic director Willie Broner Jr., who is retiring in January, are wrestling coach Mark DeAugustino, volleyball and girls weightlifting coach Ramiro Tejada, assistant football coach Jim Ward and Broner's son, Willie Broner III, who coaches the Pirates' boys basketball team.
Pasco principal Pat Reedy said Monday he would like to address the position "within a couple of weeks" and said he soon would set up initial interviews. Broner, 56, announced this month he is retiring after 15 years running the department and overseeing coaches in 18 varsity sports.
The stipend for the AD job is $4,240 a year based on 2003-04 figures.
DeAugustino has been Pasco's wrestling coach for six seasons, Broner has four seasons as head basketball coach and Tejada two with volleyball. Ward has been on the football staff since 1993 and was Pasco's softball coach for six years until resigning in 2000.
In addition to the four coaches, another candidate with experience in Pirates athletics is longtime athletic trainer J.R. Titsworth, who works at nearby Moore Mickens Education Center.
Michael Taylor, a former assistant baseball coach at Sickles who was considered for the Hudson baseball job, also has applied, as has New Port Richey's Tom Marmorowski, a youth basketball coach who applied for the boys basketball job at River Ridge this spring. Reedy did not have background information readily available on an eighth applicant, Bill Burr.
