The Board of Education will have a workshop on whether to fund an assistant high school soccer coach on Tuesday, October 4 at 6:30 p.m. at the board of education building. The board may also discuss a request for an assistant band teacher.
DCHS soccer coach Dylan Kleparek was asked to address the Board of Education Thursday night about the need for an assistant soccer coach. “What we are requesting is to have a paid assistant soccer coach for both the boys and girls soccer teams. Each of our other major sports all have paid assistant coaches. We’ve had an assistant coach who has assisted us for the past five years for free. She does an amazing job. To list the number of jobs that she did would be a very difficult task for me. She does a great job with organization and also helping with the team at practice and helping maintain student awareness of their grades and many other functions. There are many functions of our team that could no longer go on if we did not have this assistant coach. She is reaching a point in which she is no longer going to be able to do this for free. Its been a heavy burden on her and on the team. We’re really just asking for what’s fair and that is to be accepted as all the other major sports in the school and have that addressed. I don’t think that the board is aware of all the functions that our soccer program does and the level that our soccer program performs. We have a very outstanding soccer program and we do several functions including soccer camps for our youth during the summer. We take our girls soccer team to a summer camp at a college and stay for a week We travel and stay overnight for soccer tournaments. Things like that are not very possible without two responsible adults present. It’s the safety of our students and players that need to be addressed,” said Coach Kleparek.
Kleparek is the head coach of both the boys and girls soccer programs. The girls soccer season is in the fall and the boys season is during the spring.
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