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PIERCETON -ÊThe Whitko School Board hired two new high school coaches in its meeting Monday night.
Lenny Krebs was named the new girls basketball coach, while Steve Pickett was hired as the new boys basketball coach.
Krebs comes from NorthWood High School, where he coached girls freshman basketball during the 1998-99 season and sixth grade basketball from 1996-99. Before coaching at NorthWood, Krebs was a freshman head coach and varsity assistant at Fairfield High School from 1995-96. He will teach third grade at Pierceton Elementary School.
He earned a bachelor of science in elementary education at Grace College in 1996 and an associate of arts from Illinois Valley Community College in Oglesby, Ill.
Pickett will begin his first head coaching position at Whitko High School. He was most recently an assistant coach under Rob Irwin at Carroll High School in Fort Wayne, and before that he was an assistant varsity coach at Churubusco High School from 1995-97.
Pickett earned a bachelor of arts degree in communications from Purdue University at Fort Wayne and a teaching certificate in education with social studies and english from Indiana University in Fort Wayne.
Along with his duties as head boys basketball coach, Pickett will teach English at Whitko High School.
