SOUTH WHITLEY – A trio of athletic department personnel changes at Whitko High School, including new head coaches for football, volleyball and boys basketball, were announced in a press release Friday night. FOOTBALL Jeff Sprunger takes over as the head football coach, replacing Josh Mohr, who has become the athletic director. Mohr replaced Casey Stouffer, who returned home to be the AD at Maconaquah. Sprunger graduated from Indiana University, where he served as a student manager for the football team, with a degree in secondary education in social studies. He served as an assistant coach at Tippecanoe Valley for four years before coming to Whitko as an assistant last season. Sprunger also has been an assistant track coach at both schools. VOLLEYBALL Mike Howard will be taking over as the head volleyball coach for the Lady Wildcats. He comes to Whitko from Warsaw, where he taught for the past 10 years, and was head volleyball coach, compiling a 206-58 record. Howard earned his degree in secondary education in social studies from IPFW in 2006. BOYS BASKETBALL Eli Henson will be taking over as the head boys basketball coach and teach special education at Whitko. He takes over for Roger Fleetwood, who is now the head boys basketball coach at Owen Valley High School. Henson comes to Whitko from North White High School where he coached for five seasons with a record of 63-56 and a sectional championship in 2014. He earned a degree in physical education from Anderson University and a master’s in special education from Ball State.
