List of applicants grows for position in Rogers
Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007
ROGERS A high-school principal and a dean of students, both from outside of Rogers, have joined seven others applicants in the running for athletics director of the Rogers School District.
The position of athletics director will be spilt from the head football coach position. In 2008, when the district opens its second high school, the athletics director will supervise both programs.
David Tollett, of Texarkana, now working as the dean of students in the Texarkana School District, applied for the position. Tollett has been a social studies teacher and a coach.
Applicant Vic Gandolph, of Benton, is a high-school principal in the Glen Rose School District. Hes been a teacher and a football coach in the Hot Springs, Mountain Pine and Lakeside schools.
The current athletics director in Rogers, Ronnie Peacock, is also head football coach. Peacock told The Daily Record last week that he is not interested in leaving the coaching position to become athletics director.
Other applicants include the following:
Heath Waters, who is now athletics director, a PE teacher and baseball coach for the Pleasant Hope (Mo. ) Schools;
Robert Gray, principal for grades six through eight for the Flippin School District;
Paul Chris Leshinski, the current high-school girls soccer coach in Rogers;
Keith Kilgore, a former baseball coach in Bentonville who is now director of the Regional Educational Alternative Program in the Rogers School District;
Bobby Cole, dean of academics at Oak Grove in the Pulaski County Special School District;
Larry Garland, superintendent of schools in Scranton;
Mark Holderbaum, director of athletics for the Oklahoma City Public School District; and
Derrill Smith, athletics director in El Dorado.
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