Steve Calande, who resigned last week as the head football coach at Old Town High School, has landed a new job.
Calande has been named the head football coach and physical education teacher at East Catholic High School in Manchester, Conn., replacing Bill Baccaro, who resigned in April.
Calande met his new players for the first time last Friday.
“We simply could not have selected a finer coach, better teacher, or a more honorable man for the position,’’ East Catholic athletic director Tom Malin told the Journal Inquirer of Manchester, Conn. “Coach Calande will not only teach the fundamentals of the game, but will also teach the values of participating in sports that our football players will take with them for the rest of their lives upon graduation.’’
Calande coached at Old Town for the last two seasons, guiding the Coyotes to a 6-3 record in the LTC Class C ranks in 2010, the program’s first winning season since 1997. Old Town went 2-6 last year after moving back up to the Pine Tree Conference Class B division.
Calande has family ties to the Manchester, Conn., area, one of his primary reasons for taking the new job.
East Catholic High finished with a 2-8 record in 2011 after going 3-7 in 2010.
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whats happening at east catholic high school in connecticut should not be in the bangor daily news. nobody really cares about this coach, he was once quoted as saying as a coaching staff we are like fingers that can be easily broken but when together on the same page as a fist we can really do some damage. i’ll sure the entire staff said yes lets go for it on 4th and 26 on our own 6 yard line with 94 yards to go. good luck east catholic get ready to hire a coach in 2 years, but you’d know that if you looked at his resume
very good mushing5, very good! Same point(s) i was trying to make in past post on his article of “stepping down”. I’m sure they will enjoy the going for it 4th every time as well as the onsides kick part of the game!
Coach Calande did a fantastic job with one arm tied behind his back at Old Town. His strength and conditioning program has helped my son gain 40 pounds this year. Amazing really.
40lbs?????????
40lbs?????????????????
Seems like some of the Orono faithful are still bitter from those last two huge losses to OT.
Orono never could stop the double wing. I guess thats why the 4th down thing was such a big deal to them.