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On Wednesday, Mount Healthy High School announced the hiring of a new boys basketball coach and athletic director.
Mount Healthy named Ty Cass as its next boys basketball coach, saying in a press release that he will begin practices in July to abide by new Ohio High School Athletic Association rules on when preseason sessions can begin.
Coach Cass hopes to positively impact the boys on the team through athletics as well as in the classroom, the release said.
Cass comes from Aiken, where he spent the last 11 seasons, first as an assistant for six years, the final five as a varsity assistant under Leon Ellison. He was named Aiken's head coach prior to the 2016-17 season when Ellison went to Princeton.
In five seasons, Cass compiled a 59-62 overall record and had a 9-5 mark in the postseason. Over his last three seasons, Cass led the Falcons to a 42-30 record, a district championship and a share of the Cincinnati Metro Athletic Conference championship in 2019.
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Cass is a Mount. Healthy alum and played basketball and soccer for the Owls. He later played basketball for Miami University-Hamilton.
Mount Healthy named Diana Riemenschneider as its new athletic director.
Riemenschneider steps into the role after spending the last 20 years at the school as a staff member and former coach. The last two years, she has been the high school's assistant principal, as well as the assistant athletic director and site coordinator for four years. In her previous 18 years, she was a junior high math teacher.
Riemenschneider's athletic background includes All-State honors in both basketball and volleyball while at Madiera. She was inducted into the 2004 Madeira High School Hall of Fame for both sports. Riemenschneider went on to play DI basketball at Cleveland State, where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Education. She later earned her Master's Degree from American College of Education.
As a coach, Riemenschneider coached varsity volleyball for six years, earning coach of the year honors. She also coached both junior high and JV girls basketball.
"Diana is very committed to the Mount Healthy City School District's students, parents, staff and community," Mount Healthy Principal Arnez Gray said. "She has had great success as a teacher and now we look forward to her helping to advance our athletic program to higher levels.
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"She is highly respected for her excellent sportsmanship and is appreciated for her high expectations and fair treatment. She is deeply committed to the mission of Mount Healthy High School, understands the role of athletics, and is focused on the continued growth of our athletic program and on the development and well-being of our student-athletes and coaches.”
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