OLD TOWN – After interviewing candidates for the vacant athletic director position at Old Town High School, Superintendent Matthew Oliver is nominating Greg Thibodeau for the job.

“I’ll be nominating him at the regular August school board meeting,” said Oliver.

A total of 12 completed applications were reviewed, screened and two candidates were interviewed before Thibodeau was selected.

“We’re really pleased to have Greg on board as the athletic director,” Oliver said. “He’s lived in Old Town all of his life and he has many valuable community connections.”

When Thibodeau decided he would take the AD position he also had to decide to give up his coaching positions, including the girls varsity basketball job he has held since September 1999.

“He was the girl’s varsity basketball coach and the girl’s JV soccer coach and he will be resigning from those positions for the AD position,” said Oliver. “The responsibilities that he will take care of will consume his time.”

Thibodeau has worked as the director of the cooperative/vocational education department at OTHS since 1999 and will continue to hold the position. Before 1999 he worked in maintenance at the former James River Corp.

“Being from this town I can serve it and help out the students and the community at the same time,” he said. “I’m just real excited to come aboard and I’m looking for to the challenge.”

Thibodeau said he’s always been involved in sports and he passed this love onto his children. In high school he played many sports and captained the basketball team.

“I always was a sports fanatic,” he said.

Thibodeau replaces Matt Haney, who started in Old Town in November 2001 as AD and director of student activities. Haney, an Orland native and graduate of George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill and the University of Maine, moved on to the AD position for Union 96, which includes Sumner High School in East Sullivan.