UPDATE: Questions still loom in Evergreen track coach’s contract non-renewal
Ty Ivy was preparing for his 17th year as Evergreen’s track coach when he was summoned to the school athletic director’s office for a meeting the last week of January 2011. He met with Evergreen’s athletic director and one of the school’s three principals.
“The principal announced to me that they were not going to renew my track contract this season and I asked what the basis was, what were the grounds, and he said, ‘Let’s just call it a collective decision,’” Ivy said.
Ivy left the office dismayed and went to speak with Tyrone Curry, Evergreen’s other track coach who has co-coached the team with Ivy during his 16 years. They went to the athletic director’s office together to plead Ivy’s case but to no avail. Ivy said Evergreen’s athletic director told them his hands were tied and the decision was made by the three principals at Evergreen.
Ivy said there are, at last count, 53 student-athletes on Evergreen’s track team for the 2011 season.