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Sturgeon Bay, Door County Advocate

Southern Door hires Mallien as athletic director

Mike Shaw Special to Door County Advocate night. But because he newspaper in May 2017, Mallien four USA TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN had already accepted an months later joined the Door County o er from the admini- Economic Development Corp. as direc- Korey Mallien is back in the high stration, Mallien was al- tor of its business/education partner- school sports arena, but this time he’s lowed to settle into his ship programs. Mallien resigned his answering questions from reporters in- o ce and take care of DCEDC position July 31. stead of asking them. some preliminary leg- “I feel like this is a better t for what I Mallien, 49, the former longtime Korey work and get-acquaint- really love and have a passion for, and sports editor for the Door County Ad- Mallien ed sessions. that’s sports,” Mallien said. “It’s what vocate, made for a high-pro le hire last Former AD Michelle I’ve always been around from my rst week when he took the job of athletic Kanipes left to become journalism job – the high school scene director in the Southern Door School middle-school and high-school princi- especially.” District, his alma mater. pal at Washington Island. The athletic director serves as an The Southern Door School Board of- After having his position eliminated cially approved his contract Monday at the twice-weekly Sturgeon Bay See MALLIEN, Page 3B

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2018 Mallien one who uses intimidation, like you might expect Page from a guy as big as he is.” Mallien is quite familiar with Southern Door ath- B003 Continued from Page 1B letics as a former player and sports parent himself. He Clip attended Southern Door from first grade up, except resized “event manager” for all home school activities, Mal- for his sophomore year spent living with his father in 53% lien said, and must schedule all nonconference games Carney, Mich., in the Upper Peninsula. and referees for the varsity sports; the junior varsity, A 1987 graduate, he was a two-way varsity lineman From which is now a two-tier program that eliminated in football as a junior and senior, and a starter at for- B001 freshman-only teams; and the middle school. ward in as a senior. He earned second- “I’m also going to reach out to people I know like team all-Packerland honors in football during his sen- (Gibraltar AD) Peggy Tanck, someone I greatly ad- ior season. mire,” Mallien said. “I want to tell her, ‘Take me His daughter Kayli concentrated on basketball through a school year and the process needed to make during her high school career but also played a few it run smoothly.’ “ seasons of and . Younger daughter Southern Door sponsors 12 programs, including Hanna also played basketball but will be remembered co-ed in the spring, the traditional boys season. for softball, as a starting pitcher from the second Additionally, the school contributes boys and girls game of her freshman season onward. Hanna is on swimmers to a Sturgeon Bay-led, three-school co-op school top-10 softball lists in 10 categories. team. Korey helped his daughters’ fortunes along – and Southern Door has been the most-dominant those of other Southern Door girls – by coaching sev- sports school in Door County for the past few years enth-grade basketball for two years; running the dis- and, arguably, in the Packerland Conference. The Ea- trict’s summer softball team in Allouez for a time for gles have won Advocate columnist Jon Gast’s unoffi- former head coach Pat Delcore; various other volun- cial “Packerland All-Sports Standings” for four years teerism; and co-founding the Batgirls club softball running and enter 2018-19 as defending league team that he said has been a feeder system for the champs in football, boys and girls basketball and girls varsity and a “big reason” for its year-in, year-out suc- cross country. cess. And that’s not even counting swimmers Brock Mallien is also a certified basketball official but will Aune and Luke Bousley, key parts of a Clippers boys now have to back out of games involving Southern team that finished sixth in the state in Division 2 last Door. His wife, Jodi, is a fourth-grade teacher at winter. Both Aune and Bousley qualified for the state Southern Door and has been with the district for more meet. than 20 years. Among the first items on Mallien’s to-do list was He’s a graduate of the University of Wisconsin- traveling on the team bus to Winneconne for the foot- Oshkosh and was a general assignment reporter at ball team’s season opener Friday night. The Eagles, a the Rhinelander Daily News for five months before three-time defending league champ with plenty of joining the Advocate in 1992. talent back, absorbed a somewhat eye-opening 37-6 The AD position is only half-time, but Mallien said non-conference thumping. there could be opportunities to get full-time hours by Mallien called it a “tough game,” but the result was working as a classroom aide or getting licensed as a secondary to his main purpose of getting a read on the substitute teacher. He did not rule out becoming a style of new head coach Ryan Zuehlke, whom he fully certified teacher, under a new state program that knew only casually as a sports source. allows people with bachelor’s degrees and career ex- “He got on the bus (and took command),” Mallien pertise in a subject to enter the teaching field without said of Zuehlke, who’s also a semipro offensive line- a specific education degree. man with the Door County Destroyers. “The first thing he said was: ‘All right, sit down, quiet, are you here, are you here?’ He’s not a yeller or screamer or some-

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