Vikings Sports Now wanted to give you an update on the vacant Hopewell High School Boys Basketball head coaching position.
Nearly a month after Mark D’Alessandris resigned after coaching the team for 3 seasons, the Hopewell Area School District will be moving into the next phase.
The job vacancy had been posted for the last few weeks and last Friday, the district closed the period to apply and now are evaluating the candidates.
While Vikings Sports Now won’t publicly release their names out of respect for the hiring process, we believe the vacancy has had at least 4 candidates apply, two of which have impressive resumes.
The question now becomes; how long will it take for the district to decide on the eventual head coach?
On the surface some may not see the urgency to do so, but that’s really not the case. High school programs across the WPIAL enter their teams into summer leagues in May, as well conducting open gyms sessions and running youth camps.
For the better, more competitive programs and frankly the programs that have success, basketball is a year-round- sport and not only played in seasons.
Whomever takes over this program has a lot of work to do.
This past season, Hopewell finished with a record of 9-12 and over the last 11 seasons, the boys’ program has a combined record of 52-202 and haven’t qualified for the playoffs since 2010.
