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Pearl River Hires Swimming Coach

The Pearl River Athletic Department continued a year of tremendous turnover among its coaches as the board of education approved most of the coaches for this fall last week.

Angela Spina will take over the girls swimming and diving program as varsity head coach, replacing Mark Alaimo, who left after one season in the position. Director of Athletics Todd Santabarbara said he hopes to have the remaining fall coaching vacancies filled by the Aug. 13 school board meeting. The only other head coaching change for the fall is cheerleading, which is still vacant. Varsity and junior varsity fall sports practices begin Aug. 19. 

Spina is the founder, owner and head instructor at SeaBeast Aquatics in Suffern. The former Suffern High School swimmer had also been a varsity swimming assistant at North Rockland since 2007. 

Santabarbara said he is currently reviewing applications for the girls basketball head coaching job, which came open when Lorraine Moylan stepped down in March after 20 years running the program. Pearl River also had long-time coaches leave in softball (Mike Carlacci), baseball (Bruce Miller) and girls lacrosse (Laurie Mayernik) since the start of 2013. Carissa Gaylardo took over the softball program from Carlacci for the 2013 season and led the Pirates to appearance in the Section 1 Class A championship game. 


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