Saturday, January 16, 2010

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DPS picks Ward to be new AD 

By MICK Mc CABE


FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER
 

Detroit Public Schools is expected to name Alvin Ward its director of athletics and health and physical education early next week.

Ward will replace Lafay ette Evans, who retired in September.

Ward was a highly respect ed basketball coach at Detroit King for 17 years before enter ing
 school ad ministration. In six years at De troit Western, he was dean of students, assis tant principal and interim principal before serving as prin cipal at Finney the previous nine years.

He is in his first year as
 principal at Kettering.

In October, DPS named former NBA star and Detroit Northern grad Derrick Cole man commissioner of PSL athletics. His duties were be lieved to be more along the lines of fund-raising than an overseer of the league’s day to- day operations, which will be Ward’s responsibilities.

It’s unclear whether Coleman will remain with the DPS.

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