Danner resigns as head football coach at NPHS

 

Drew Danner resigned Tuesday, March 21, as head football coach at New Prague High School. 

Danner saw the Trojans through three years of change, as the team played one season in the Wright County Conference and two seasons in the Big Southeast District. They went 6-21 over those three years and were 2-7 during the 2016 season.  

Activities Director Brad Skogerboe said Tuesday that the resignation was unexpected. Danner plans to remain in his position as a science teacher at New Prague High School. Skogerboe said the district will start looking for a successor immediately. 

“I’ve spent the last few weeks thinking about it, talking to mentors and family members,” Danner said Tuesday in a phone interview. “It’s mostly for family reasons. I want to spend the right amount of my time with family and explore other interests,” he said. “I’ve coached football for more than 20 years, and my dad was a football coach… it’s a big part of my life, but family is the biggest piece, it’s more important to me. Being a head coach brings a lot of year-round commitments, and it’s hard to draw the line sometimes.” 

Danner and his wife have two daughters, age 9 and 11. “We love the community, the church and schools. We have no plans to leave,” he said. “Some day, I may come back to the game, but not as a head coach.”

Participation numbers have gone up in New Prague during Danner’s tenure, and despite the record over the last two years, things point to an improved season in 2017. The team has a large group of talented, experienced, incoming seniors. 

 

Other openings

Skogerboe is also looking to hire two other head coaches, for the boys soccer and dance teams, to replace Jon Hopke and Chris Plambeck. Hopke had been soccer coach head coach since the program’s first varsity season in 2009 and Plambeck started the dance team as a community education program before it became a full varsity program in 2014-15. This is the time of year when many schools are hiring coaches, since they are also looking to fill teaching jobs in the spring months. 

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