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Somerville girls' basketball job reopens

Print | Comments () Posted by Bob Holmes, Globe Staff September 7, 2010 05:22 PM

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Longtime Somerville girls’ basketball coach Brian Harris’ fight to keep his job is still alive after the school offered the job to another candidate and was declined. As a result, Harris gets to try again ... if he wants to.

After a process that included interviewing with a community committee, the athletic director, the headmaster, and the superintendent, it came down to a brief conversation.
‘‘Today in a 10-second conversation she [AD Nicole Viele] said out of that process we identified one qualified candidate. He was offered the position and he declined.’’

That candidate according to Harris was Jeff LaCure, who was girls' basketball coach at Notre Dame of Worcester last winter.

‘‘He (superintendent Tony Pierantozzi) said to me he had some questions regarding my internal policing controls, I think is how he described it.’’

But Harris said it was the headmaster’s decision as communicated by Viele. Harris plans to speak to friends today to figure out if we wants to reapply for the position he's held for the past 18 years. Somerville won the Greater Boston League title the last three years and has made the tournament 16 out of his 18 seasons.

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