The longtime boys basketball coach at Derry Area High School has resigned. According to TribLive.com, Tom Esposito, who began his coaching career at Blairsville and later was head coach at Homer-Center, us stepping down because his entire coaching staff has left.
Assistants Matt Polinsky, Adam Bosco, Mike Murphy, and TJ Petrosky all departed for personal reasons related to family or employment. Esposito said losing his coaching staff “changed (his) outlook on the season.”
According to the Trib, Esposito coached Derry for eighteen seasons over two two stints, from 1999 to 2006 and from 2018 through last season. He’s Derry’s all-time winningest coach with 151 wins, and coached the Trojans to seven WPIAL tournament appearances and one Section title. His most recent teams have made the state playoffs four consecutive times, including last season.
Esposito was head coach at Homer-Center from 1994-1999 after spending five years as an assistant at his alma mater, Blairsville.
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