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February 8, 2010

New football coaches hired at GAR and Meyers

By John Erzar jerzar@timesleader.com
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WILKES-BARRE – The Wilkes-Barre Area School Board filled its two varsity football coaching openings Monday night, hiring Paul Wiedlich Jr. at GAR and Dwayne Downing at Meyers.

Both were hired by an 8-0 vote.

Wiedlich is a 1991 GAR graduate and former player and was a GAR assistant coach for 16 years.

Downing was the head coach at Bishop Hoban from 2002-2006. The former Penn State defensive back was an assistant coach at King’s College the past three years.

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