Local coaches split on ‘restructuring’1 min read

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George Werner
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Jonathan Galaz, No. 50, an eighth-grader at West Sedona School, drives to the hoop between two defenders from Big Park Community School. The Wildcats and Coyotes basketball programs could consolidate under a restructuring plan under consideration by the Sedona-Oak Creek Unified School District.

After a roundtable group suggested Nov. 9 that the Sedona Oak-Creek School District consider a “restructuring” that would turn one of its two K-8 schools into a junior high and the other into an elementary school, local coaches’ feelings are mixed.

 

Big Park Community School Head Girls Basketball Coach Kirk Westervelt is generally positive towards the plan, which could be enacted as early as next year, if approved by the SOCSD Governing Board. It would turn Big Park into strictly a school for students in sixth through eighth grades.

“We’d have some great teams,” he said. “There are activity buses kids in West Sedona could take.”

However, winter sports coaches at West Sedona see the downside, as they may no longer have teams to coach.

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While Big Park currently allows its fifth-graders to compete in select sports, West Sedona School has none.

For the full story, please see the Wednesday, Nov. 18, issue of the Sedona Red Rock News.

George Werner

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