PINE GROVE – Rock Hill High School girls basketball players will have a new coach at the helm next school year.

Wednesday, June 21, 2000

PINE GROVE – Rock Hill High School girls basketball players will have a new coach at the helm next school year.

Rock Hill Board of Education members voted at their regular monthly meeting Tuesday to employ Amy Hughes as the new basketball coach on a 3-1 vote, with board member Carl Large casting the dissenting vote.

Miss Hughes also was accepted as a new teacher in the district for the same school year.

Rock Hill Superintendent Lloyd Evans said Miss Hughes is more than qualified for her new post.

"She was an outstanding ball player," Evans said. "She played basketball at the University of Connecticut, where she attended for a while. Later, she transferred to Xavier (University in Cincinnati), where she finished her college degree."

Evans added that Miss Hughes won many awards while playing basketball for the Division I colleges.

Large said he voted against Miss Hughes’ appointment because she is not from the Rock Hill area and that he believes the district should concentrate on hiring local candidates for jobs. Large also voted against Miss Hughes’ teaching appointment.

Evans said the district does try to hire locally, but that there were not enough local applications for this post.

In other personnel action, the board accepted the resignations of Mike Richards as cross country coach and Todd Knipp as senior high assistant football coach.

The board also hired James White as a teacher in the district. White has not yet been assigned to a school.

The board also approved severance pay of unused sick days for Connie Pemberton, John Zeek and Bobby Bailey.

"The severance pay agreed upon tonight is for teachers that have resigned due to retirement," Evans said. "These pays are in accordance with the contractual agreements that these employees have entered into and are entitled to."