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Mt. Ararat High School athletic director to step down this summer
The athletic director of Mt. Ararat High School, who helped deliver new athletic facilities to the Topsham school, will be stepping down from his position in less than three months.In a resignation letter obtained by Maine’s Total Coverage, Geoff Godo informed Mt. Ararat High School Principal Chris Hoffman that he will resign Aug. 1 and […]
The athletic director of Mt. Ararat High School, who helped deliver new athletic facilities to the Topsham school, will be stepping down from his position in less than three months.In a resignation letter obtained by Maine’s Total Coverage, Geoff Godo informed Mt. Ararat High School Principal Chris Hoffman that he will resign Aug. 1 and provide whatever transitional support he can through the summer for the school’s next athletic director.”This is not a decision I have made lightly, but I feel it is best for me and my family that I step aside from the rigors of this very demanding position and pursue other professional opportunities,” Godo said in the letter.Godo, a Topsham resident, has been Mt. Ararat High’s athletic director since the spring of 2016 and will complete his ninth full school year in the role.The agenda for Thursday night’s Maine School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors meeting indicates the board will accept Godo’s resignation, effective Aug. 1.Before becoming athletic director, Godo served as Mt. Ararat’s freshman baseball coach and as an assistant on the varsity baseball team from 2014 to 2016.The University of Michigan graduate moved to Maine in 2005 and worked for the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League as the team’s account executive and vice president of ticket sales.In 2008, Godo transitioned to education and served as an ed tech at Lisbon High School while earning his teaching certificate at the University of New England. He later went on to teach at Lisbon High, and he also coached baseball and basketball at Sugg Middle School in Lisbon during that time.Before arriving at Mt. Ararat, Godo was a social studies teacher at Westbrook High School for seven years. He also coached varsity golf and freshman baseball during his time at Westbrook High.In an email to Maine’s Total Coverage, MSAD 75 Superintendent Heidi O’Leary confirmed Godo has decided to resign effective Aug. 1.”To be very clear, it would be completely wrong to draw any connection between Mr. Godo’s decision and the criminal investigation of a former MSAD 75 employee that was announced on May 19,” O’Leary said in the email.On Feb. 16, MSAD 75 officials ended the Mt. Ararat High School boys ice hockey team’s season amid allegations of bullying or harassment involving players and after the head coach had announced his resignation on Facebook.In April, law firm Brann & Isaacson released a summary report of its investigation into the Mt. Ararat High School’s boys ice hockey team. The law firm found student-athletes on the hockey team participated in hazing, bullying and sexually inappropriate conduct.Maine’s Total Coverage has found no stated connection between Godo’s resignation and what happened with the high school hockey team.Mt. Ararat High School is the only high school within MSAD 75, which serves four communities in the Midcoast region: Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Harpswell and Topsham. Those towns cover an area of approximately 40 square miles and have a collective approximate population of about 20,000.
The athletic director of Mt. Ararat High School, who helped deliver new athletic facilities to the Topsham school, will be stepping down from his position in less than three months.
In a resignation letter obtained by Maine’s Total Coverage, Geoff Godo informed Mt. Ararat High School Principal Chris Hoffman that he will resign Aug. 1 and provide whatever transitional support he can through the summer for the school’s next athletic director.
“This is not a decision I have made lightly, but I feel it is best for me and my family that I step aside from the rigors of this very demanding position and pursue other professional opportunities,” Godo said in the letter.
Godo, a Topsham resident, has been Mt. Ararat High’s athletic director since the spring of 2016 and will complete his ninth full school year in the role.
The agenda for Thursday night’s Maine School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors meeting indicates the board will accept Godo’s resignation, effective Aug. 1.
Before becoming athletic director, Godo served as Mt. Ararat’s freshman baseball coach and as an assistant on the varsity baseball team from 2014 to 2016.
The University of Michigan graduate moved to Maine in 2005 and worked for the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League as the team’s account executive and vice president of ticket sales.
In 2008, Godo transitioned to education and served as an ed tech at Lisbon High School while earning his teaching certificate at the University of New England. He later went on to teach at Lisbon High, and he also coached baseball and basketball at Sugg Middle School in Lisbon during that time.
Before arriving at Mt. Ararat, Godo was a social studies teacher at Westbrook High School for seven years. He also coached varsity golf and freshman baseball during his time at Westbrook High.
In an email to Maine’s Total Coverage, MSAD 75 Superintendent Heidi O’Leary confirmed Godo has decided to resign effective Aug. 1.
“To be very clear, it would be completely wrong to draw any connection between Mr. Godo’s decision and the criminal investigation of a former MSAD 75 employee that was announced on May 19,” O’Leary said in the email.
On Feb. 16, MSAD 75 officials ended the Mt. Ararat High School boys ice hockey team’s season amid allegations of bullying or harassment involving players and after the head coach had announced his resignation on Facebook.
In April, law firm Brann & Isaacson released a summary report of its investigation into the Mt. Ararat High School’s boys ice hockey team. The law firm found student-athletes on the hockey team participated in hazing, bullying and sexually inappropriate conduct.
Maine’s Total Coverage has found no stated connection between Godo’s resignation and what happened with the high school hockey team.
Mt. Ararat High School is the only high school within MSAD 75, which serves four communities in the Midcoast region: Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Harpswell and Topsham. Those towns cover an area of approximately 40 square miles and have a collective approximate population of about 20,000.