Citizen Staff
Ex-Sahuaro coach appeals for job
By A.J. FLICK
ajflick@tucsoncitizen.com
Former Sahuaro High School baseball coach Mark Tselentis wants a judge to order the Tucson Unified School District to reinstate him.
Tselentis, through attorney Dan Cooper, filed an appeal in Pima County Superior Court after TUSD failed to respond to a claim filed in May.
TUSD is asking the court to dismiss the appeal.
The district fired Tselentis as Sahuaro baseball coach and Tucson Magnet High School assistant volleyball coach following allegations that baseball players and coaches misbehaved on an April 2003 trip to Las Vegas. He remains a physical education teacher at Sahuaro.
“My client is devastated,” Cooper wrote in a letter to TUSD. “He loves coaching. He loves kids.”