After a more than a month of swirling questions over Athletic Director Tina Downing’s status of her resignation on March 12th (which was published in the March 15th edition of YCN), and Russ Hale pulling his application for High School Head Football Coach, Tina Downing clarified the confusion at the April monthly board meeting.
“During this whole football situation, I turned in a letter of resignation to Mrs. O’Donnell on the 12th of March. She asked that I take some time to think about it. I have done a lot of thinking and a lot of soul searching, and I will tell you it came down to a conversation with my mom who told me that I did not take this job for the community and I took it for the kids. Both my teaching job and the AD job. So, with that, I met with Carl and Drea on Monday [April 15] and I sent a letter to Drea asking for her to pull my resignation.”
Downing’s comments and request to pull her resignation were met with … Read Full Story by subscribing to YCN online here.
