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Interview of the Week – Stephen Decatur Athletic Director Don Howard

March 8, 2016 Posted by Matt Pencek Featured Sports, Local Sports, Sports Interview Of The Week

Stephen Decatur High School has had some of the best boys and girls high school basketball played on the Eastern Shore.  Both team’s earned number seeds in the 3A East Region.  In our conversation with Athletic Director Don Howard we discuss this season and his long run with the Seahawks program.

Pencek: What has it been like having both the boys and girls basketball teams have the success they have had this season?

Howard: The coaches, the staff, the athletes involved all have worked very hard to get to this point.  They’re good athletes, they’re good kids, they’re all minds in motion people.  These are a wonderful group of kids who worked hard to get where they are and they deserve where they are.  It’s really tremendous to have both the girls and the boys coming on at the same time.

Pencek: You have alluded that you have been here for over three decades.  Have you seen a season like this?

Howard: Not at the same time.  There have been good years and good runs of years for boys and excellent years for girls but never together.  We have had through the boys basketball years, the girls had a nice run in the 1980s.  It’s just fantastic to have this.  The community has gotten behind these programs.

Pencek: What has been like in the school, particularly the atmosphere the past few months?

Howard: The student population has shown up for the games.  They followed us to James M. Bennett (for the girls Bayside Conference Championship Game).  Between the boys and girls we played six games in seven nights at the school and we had great support from the students and the community.

Pencek: With all the year’s you have been at Stephen Decatur, is it safe to say that you are an institution at the school?

Howard: Everybody wants to say that I placed the first brick in the high school building but that is not so.  I came here in the fall of 1970 as a business education teacher.  I coached JV basketball.  I coached golf.  I have coached softball.  I enjoy the kids, I enjoy being around them and being involved with them.

Pencek: Is there any one particular thing or event that stands out during your time here?

Howard: During the 1970s, 80s, and 90s we have had wonderful sports teams.  From that point we added lacrosse teams both boys and girls have had great success.  Every year it seems like we have at least one team do really well.  You name it, we have great kids here.

Pencek: What keeps you going and wanting to do this?

Howard: Kids keeping me young.  They keep me moving and keep me on the run.  The interest in the kids and promoting their athletic programs.

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Matt joined WBOC in October 2015 as a Sports Broadcast Journalist. He is a native of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. Matt graduated from Penn State where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He started his broadcast career as the news/sports director of WEMR AM 1460 in his hometown of Tunkhannock. Matt held that same position for WALI/WROG radio in Cumberland, MD. His first television position was as the weekend sports anchor at WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, MD where he eventually became the Sports Director. Matt then moved to Florence, SC to become a sports reporter/anchor for WPDE-TV In 2011 along with his brother David, Matt co-authored The Great Book of Penn State Sports Lists. From 2012 – 2015 he was the lead radio play-by-play voice for The Friday Night High School Football Game of the Week for DE FOX Sports 1290 in Wilmington, DE. The last 2 years at the radio station Matt was the studio host during the University of Delaware Football radio broadcasts. He has also called the action for the both the Blue Hens men’s and women’s basketball teams. Outside of work, Matt is married to his wife Shannon and has two sons; Jack and Connor. E-mail Matt Pencek at mpencek@wboc.com and follow him on Twitter @mattpencek_wboc. Check out all stories by Matt.

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