Linden coach takes teaching position at McNair

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July 22, 2013 12:00 AM

LINDEN - After five years as head baseball coach at Linden High, Joe Piombo is moving on.

Piombo has taken a newly created position at McNair High as an on-campus suspension instructor, meaning he'll work with students facing short-term disciplinary action. Rather than serving the traditional at-home suspension, students will report to Piombo's class for the length of their suspensions.

"It's a career move," Piombo said. "I was looking for a different challenge. It's hard to walk away from Linden. I had to remove the emotional part and look at it as a career move for me and my family.

"I think the hardest part is the kids. Our kids start playing for us in the eighth grade. To make that decision now was hard. You look at kids like (Justin) Giovannoni and (Bailey) Wright, we've probably played 100 to 150 games together. It's not an easy decision."

The move has nothing to do with athletics. Quincey Noble, who's been the head baseball coach at McNair since the varsity program's inception in 2007, isn't going anywhere. Piombo said he'll likely help Noble as an assistant.

Piombo, a 1979 Stagg High graduate, has worked as a football coach and baseball coach at Linden off and on since 1989. He took over as head varsity baseball coach in 2009, replacing Bob Amerman, a Stockton Athletic Hall of Famer who won more than 600 games over 43 years.

Piombo's teams went 91-31-2 and won three of the past four Mother Lode League championships. This spring, the Lions went a perfect 15-0 in the MLL (24-6-1 overall), and were one out away from advancing to the Sac-Joaquin Section Division V finals before suffering a 5-3 loss to Escalon in the final game of a best-of-three series.

Contact reporter Stephen Roberson at (209) 546-8272 or sroberson@recordnet.com.

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