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Saturday, March 21, 2009
HAMILTON — Badin High School has entrusted the future of its football program to a familiar face from its past.
Bill Tenore, a 1988 Badin graduate and former assistant coach, was named the third head coach in the school's 43-year history Friday afternoon, March 20.
"I'm thrilled to be back here at Badin," Tenore said. "I know I was introduced as the new coach at Badin, but in some ways I feel like I'm the old coach. This is home for me."
Tenore, 38, replaces Dave Wirth, who resigned after five seasons to take the head coach position at Covington (Ky.) Catholic.
"Bill knows Badin football, and I'm thrilled to death to have him," Badin Principal Frank Margello said. "Coach Tenore will make sure that our program is blessed with intensity, honesty, hard work, fairness and a winning attitude."
Tenore has been the athletic director at Aquinas High School in Augusta, Ga., for the last three years, and he was the head coach the last two seasons.
Prior to that, he was the head coach at Fenwick for four years, leading the team to the playoffs in two of those seasons while also engineering the only victory against Badin in school history — a 24-17 triumph in 2005.
From 1997-2001, Tenore was an assistant coach at Badin under Terry Malone, the winningest coach in Ohio history.
"I've been anxious to find out who the new coach is, and I was glad to find out it was an alum," said Badin junior Matt Combs, who will join Matt Shamp, Alex Rieman and Danny Wolf as captains of Tenore's first Badin squad.
Tenore will finish the school year at Aquinas while he and his wife, Tara, and 6-month-old daughter Olivia look for a house here.
"We knew if and when we started a family, we wanted to come back to this area because all our family is here," Tenore said. "It just so happened that my favorite place needed a football coach. Timing is everything. It's kind of crazy the way God looks after you like that."
Tenore said he will be retaining current assistant coaches Steve Malone and Dan Cox, and he hopes to have the rest of the staff filled "as soon as possible."
