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Millis hires Olmsted

Millis High School tabbed Dale Olmsted as its new football coach today. It's the first head coaching position for the 37-year-old Olmsted, who succeeds Dave Sperandio.

"We're extremely happy with the whole process," Millis athletic director Chuck Grant said on Monday morning. "We're entering a whole new era, hoping to build on what Dave Sperandio worked so hard to bring to Millis."

While Sperandio had been associated with Millis since the 1970s, Olmsted is a fresh face. He was an assistant on Grant's football staff at Walpole High from 1993-2000, serving as both an offensive and defensive coordinator at different times. He then spent three years as offensive coordinator at Dedham High, and was part of a turnaround in which Dedham went from 2-9 to 8-3. He then served as defensive coordinator at Braintree High for one year, before moving on to Wrentham-based King Philip Regional as defensive coordinator in 2005.

Millis competes in the Tri-Valley League, alongside Ashland, Bellingham, Dover-Sherborn, Holliston, Hopkinton, Medfield, Medway, Norton and Westwood.

Grant said he sees a strong connection to Olmsted's time at Dedham and what Olmsted will experience at Millis. Just as Dedham was one of the smallest schools in the Bay State Conference, Millis is the smallest school in the Tri-Valley League.