3 Orlando Christian Prep administrators step down after child porn & illegal recruiting charges

[Ian David]

3 Orlando Christian Prep administrators step down after tumultuous girls basketball season

Shannon J. Owens | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted March 22, 2007, 1:25 PM EDT

After a tumultuous girls basketball season that ended in Florida High School Athletic Association sanctions and heartbreak, three Orlando Christian Prep administrators have resigned.

Principal Dr. Joseph Zobel, Athletic Director Don Norman and Coach Rich Harrelson stepped down at various times in the past week.

Norman and Harrelson, who does not teach at the school, took over the program after former coach and athletic director Buck Lanham was arrested last October on charges of possession of child pornography. They completed one season with the Warriors' athletic program in which the girls team finished 25-3.

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He will represent the school this Sunday as the school will appeal for a lesser fine from the FHSAA handed down in January. The state association charged the girls basketball program with illegal recruiting, fined the school $10,000 and banned the Warriors from playoff competition until the 2010-11 season. The team also was barred from playing out-of-state and preseason tournaments.

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Between running an athletic program and making hospital visits to members of the Orlando Baptist church, Norman said he didn't have long-term plans as an athletic director as he also serves as the associate pastor of the church.

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[William769]

1. Did he recruit from Parliament house?

[tanyev]

2. Illegal recruiting for the Christian Warriors, eh?

I guess just witnessing wasn't quite enough to WIN.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Those wild and wacky christofascist republicons.

Lecture us all again, please, about your 'superior morality.'

And then be sure and send us a postcard from Hell when you get there.

Jeff Gannon and his patron George AWOL Bush will no doubt be there to welcome you.