According to multiple sources, former Lenape Valley wrestling coach Bob Poggi is being recommended by superintendent/principal Paul DiRupo to become the school's new athletic director.
The move is pending approval at the next board of education meeting on Aug. 27. Poggi would succeed Gerhard Sanchez, who recently resigned as the Patriots' AD after less than a year on the job to take the same position at Irvington High School starting on Aug. 1.
Poggi, a very popular figure at Lenape Valley and in the Sussex County wrestling ranks, currently serves in a supervisory capacity at Lenape Valley. Poggi also has been on the Region 1 seeding committee for many years, assisting seeding chairman Brad DiRupo.
Poggi guided the Lenape Valley wrestling program for 15 seasons from 1986-2002. His teams compiled an overall mark of 156-107-3, a program record for wins that he shares with current coach Doug Vetter. The Patriots also captured two of their four sectional titles under Poggi in 1998 and '99.
Individually, Poggi coached 27 district and six region champions and two of the school's three state finalists -- Vetter (1990) and Chris Ressa (2001). D.J. Russo (2006), coached by Vetter, also finished second in the state for the Patriots, who have never had a state champ.
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