Durango School District 9-R has an athletic director again after a three-month absence.
Roxanne Perrin will succeed Sheldon Keresey, who resigned in May, according to a news release from the district Wednesday.
Perrin joins the district from Mesa, Ariz., where she worked as an English teacher, assistant principal and athletic director for the Mesa Public School System.
She worked in the sales/marketing field for 20 years before obtaining a Masters degree in education from the University of Phoenix to pursue her lifelong dream of teaching, according to her biography on the Poston Junior High School website.
Perrin graduated from Yale with an English degree and played basketball for the Bulldogs as well.
“I firmly believe in the value of athletics in the overall educational experience and am passionate about creating and promoting the oppoortunity for participation for all students in athletics,” Perrin said in the district’s news release. “I will be guided by our goals to ensure high particpation rates, student growth and a positive atmosphere, as well as developing important life skills in our student athletes, such as perseverance, commitment and leadership.”
Durango filled its football, softball and boys soccer head coaching vacancies this summer without an athletic director.
An email to the DHS athletic department was not immediately returned as to when Perrin’s start date will be, although the news release said she has “hit the ground running.”
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