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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Marshall basketball coach moving to Edison CC
John Ralph, who spent eight years coaching the Marshall High School boys basketball team, has accepted the men’s basketball head coaching position at Edison Community College in Piqua.
Ralph said the timing for a move felt right when a senior class with which he had grown close, including forward Greg Gainey and guard Shawn Robinson, graduated in the spring. In talking with a coaching friend about the class moving on, Ralph learned Edison was searching for a coach, and he met with Edison Athletic Director Chip Hare.
Ralph’s resignation will be effective July 15, said Jonas Smith, the Dayton Public Schools athletic director.
“It was completing a big cycle,” Ralph said about the senior class, which as juniors (including guard Juwan Staten) advanced to the Division II state championship game. Last season, after Staten departed for Oak Hill Academy, the Cougars lost to eventual state champion Dunbar in a D-II regional final.
“I’m not bashful in telling anybody that those guys — Greg Gainey, Shawn Robinson, Juwan Staten before he left, then others, people who didn’t have marquee names — beyond being good basketball players they are such great people. They’re good students and citizens and come from solid families.”
Ralph is a former assistant coach at Alter High School and spent time as a volunteer assistant coach at Sinclair Community College early in the 2000s. He said his time with Sinclair helped him feel familiar with Edison, the junior college level and the Ohio Community College Athletic Conference, of which Edison is a member.
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