001you kind of know everybody that's here and I don't you want to me to go into the audience or you're good. No, I think we're good. So, you want to take um so at this time obviously uh first off I just want to thank Coach Cox and his family. Um for dedicating 12 years uh really just mentoring, coaching, teaching, dedicating a lot of time to our boys basketball program. and uh we hope that we hope that he stays somewhat involved. He he said he's going to be coming to the games. It's going to be a little bit unique uh come this fall, but I think he's in a good place and I just want to thank him for everything that he's given to Newcastle. Um when he stepped down, obviously this is my biggest hire.
002Uh boys basketball position doesn't come open very often here at Newcastle and um so we thought it would be best to form a committee. We had seven members on that committee. uh six of the seven are here today. Um I don't want to talk too much. I have some things I can share, but if anybody from the committee would want to say something that if not I can. No, what we'll do real quick is uh we'll go through item A and then I'll let you continue. Okay. All right. Um so just to uh keep this process formal and um official at this time uh we just need to approve our personnel uh list for tonight. And do I have a motion to approve that personnel? So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Thank you, Corey.
003All right. Um, so we did we did have quite a few applicants and uh which was nice to see, but um, honestly, I'm going to give Coach Jones credit when this kind of came up. He was like, "You need to call Matt Loose." And, uh, you know, obviously we were excited that you applied and when you came in, I think everybody on the committee is like, "He's a guy." and um for a lot of reasons, but um obviously I can share some of the accolades, but it's really beyond just basketball. Some of it's just um you know, feedback of not only how you interact with kids on the basketball team, but like all the kids in the school, how you give energy to the school. Um um also probably um have a soft spot and
004are really good with some of the kids that are are struggling during the day. just some of these feedback things that we got that's like, man, that's exactly what Newcastle's looking for. And and um it's just the perfect time, I think, for you to step in. Um just a few quick items. Um 18 straight winning seasons at Wahani, a 335 and 99 record there. Uh school record, 30 straight home wins and counting. That's really impressive. Um, another big thing for us is it says leader and director of the East Central Indiana Boys and Girls Youth Basketball League for the last 18 years. The ECI league has had 108 teams during the winter of 25. And uh, feeder programs are very important this day and age and you've dedicated not only a lot of time to
005high school programs, but you know, all levels through Wahani and we hope that you continue to do the same thing here. So, thanks. Uh we're just excited and and uh you know looking forward to really kind of hit the ground running because June's June's right around the corner. No pressure. So I know Kirk wants to say something. Kirk Aland principal. We're just very excited to have um coach Lucy with us not only as a really highly acclaimed coach. We feel like one of the best coaches in Indiana. and to have him in as a dean as well and working with our students like Corey said and working with all types of students and uh we think he'll have just a great um effect on the culture of our school. So we're just we're thrilled to
006have them and welcome to to Madame Marie. Thank you. I'll piggy back on that and that was I talked to both superintendents that that work with them and I mentioned this in in our meeting as well and that is um when I talked to Brian Roush um he said you know both were very both superintendents were very complimentary but Brian had said you know probably his best attribute you know he's a phenomenal coach his recent itself but um he works with the atrisisk youth probably better than anybody I've seen so you know that was that got my attention And so I'm great hire, great hire for for all of our kids. Thanks. Does anybody else here have any uh questions or anything? [Music] I'll make a motion to resurface the floor. Replacement. Bye. [Music]