Madison West HS football coaches quit as questions swirl around head coach contract renewal

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – Soccer coaches at Madison West Large College are quitting the staff, and a person player says he will not engage in up coming year all simply because of the head mentor. Coaches and gamers are also not delighted with how district leaders are dealing with the problem.

As the seasons change, soccer fields will before long be loaded with coaches and gamers, players like West Higher Faculty junior Richard Track.

“I wake up each day and all I feel about is football,” Tune reported.

Track plays guard and defensive close for the Regents football workforce.

“So the thought of that being torn away from me yet again after Covid is just one thing I never want to happen at all,” Song said.

He does not know if he will participate in at all this coming tumble, his senior calendar year.

“I’m surely wondering about seeking at transferring, but I don’t consider I’m in a position to participate in if I do dependent on WIAA principles,” Tune stated. “I have tons of mates in this article. I don’t want to leave them and go to a unique college my senior year so actually, I just may possibly not play.”

Music claims he does not want to perform for West’s head football mentor simply because he doesn’t imagine he sets a superior illustration for players.

Arturo, or Artwork, Bonomie was hired again in May perhaps of 2021. His use came with glowing assessments from the district.

In this e mail despatched to football family members on May 24, 2021, West’s athletic director touts Bonomie’s 5 a long time prior working experience coaching at West and his College of Michigan engineering diploma.

Soccer Family members-

We have officially made a decision on Artwork Bonomie as our everlasting head coach of the West soccer software. Bonomie graduated from College of Michigan with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and went on to additional his education with an State-of-the-art Administration and Leadership Certificate from UW-Madison. Bonomie has introduced his leadership expertise to the industry, which include 6 many years of higher university coaching, 5 several years with Madison West and a 12 months with Madison Edgewood, as well as 10 a long time of practical experience coaching youth football. His robust commitment to educational athletics which consist of lecturers, beneficial communication, local community service, leadership, and application advancement will let for us to continue to develop success on and off the discipline. As a former and now interim head mentor at West this yr and an active chief with the Southside Raiders we are self-assured the transition will go pretty easily and glimpse ahead to continuing to increase the application. Thanks to Brad Murphy for his management of this plan the last several a long time. I incorporated Artwork in the electronic mail, so you have his speak to as effectively.

Go Regents-

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Alicia Pelton, MSLD

Athletic Director

Madison West HS

Go Regents!

Twitter: @WestRegents

P: 608-204-3060

C: 608-347-7233

“Regardless of regardless of whether they did a history verify or not, she is promoting those credentials that he is repeating to our mother and father and gamers as reasons he bought hired, and these are false,” claims former assistant coach Jim Sweet.

NBC15 Investigates achieved out to the University of Michigan’s Workplace of the Registrar to validate Bonomie’s credentials. Registrar team had been “unable to obtain an Artwork Bonomie in our records” at any U of M campus. There’s no document he graduated or even took classes. Pelton touted the declare, and so does Bonomie on his LinkedIn profile.

By means of a range of open documents requests, NBC15 Investigates fought the district, even finding an legal professional included, to get solutions. We preferred to know Bonomie’s wage and also requested for his resume to examine his credentials. It took the district six and a fifty percent weeks to get us individuals records. Neither his employment application nor Bonomie’s resume described his education. But it did include things like a duplicate of a certificate for CPR teaching.

Bonomie does checklist he was an “offensive assistant” at Madison West superior faculty from 2016-2020.

At minimum 1 former assistant coach, Jim Sweet, disputes that.

“He by no means was a compensated or volunteer coach at Madison West Significant College,” says Sweet.

We have asked the district and have not still been capable to confirm Bonomie’s coaching record.

In our evaluation, NBC15 Investigates also observed court records the place Bonomie pleaded guilty to battery again in 2007, and the costs ended up dismissed just after he accomplished a first time offender’s system. He has not experienced anything at all felony on his document since. It is significant to be aware there are no allegations of abuse from present-day gamers and coaches that NBC15 Investigates presently is aware of about.

“It’s not even about the allegations so considerably as it is he doesn’t have believability between everyone in the community including his possess gamers. Logic claims he should really step down, but he won’t do that,” says Sweet.

Jim Sweet has been an assistant soccer mentor at West for the past five decades, associated in the software for 10, that is, till final 7 days when he told the district he will not be coming back if Bonomie stays in the posture as head coach. Sweet’s not alone. NBC15 has talked with 3 other coaches who say they’re out, too.

In an email to NBC15, MMSD’s communications director, Tim LeMonds, stands at the rear of the choosing system the faculty utilized to title Bonomie as head mentor.

Hi Elizabeth,

Thank you for achieving out to myself, Jermey and Alicia. District management is quite conscious of concerns elevated by some in our school group who are associated with the West Large School soccer group. We have been seeking into the make a difference extremely carefully, and have either achieved with or responded right to all those folks who have expressed issue.

MMSD calls for each individual new hire to pass a incredibly comprehensive and complete qualifications verify. We can confirm all protocols, including accomplishing expected background checks, have been correctly adopted throughout the hiring system for West Significant School’s head football coach.

That stated, thanks to privateness legal guidelines and district policy, the district are not able to remark on personnel troubles. For that reason, we respectfully decline your ask for. Nonetheless, I can share the reality that each new hire agrees to observe all operate procedures provided in the district’s staff handbook. When our district is created informed of a likely do the job rule violation involving an MMSD worker, it is adopted up with an inside assessment and responded to accordingly based on the results of the critique.

With regards to your dilemma on resignations. Drop-sport assistant coaching positions are once-a-year at-will appointments and resignations or career listings for these positions are ordinarily not decided right until mid May well via June. Of the 8 assistant football coach positions at West, there have been no official resignations submitted to the Athletic Director or Administrative employees. There was nevertheless an formal resignation of the compensated strength coach who serves all sports activities, and not only football. Moreover, for any sport, it is popular for there to be a diploma of turnover with assistant coaches just about every year.

Thank you,

Tim

Coaching positions at MMSD are based mostly on one particular-year contracts. So if a coach were to depart when the time is not going on, they would not have to technically resign. But coaches who spoke to NBC15 say they are not renewing their contracts by option specially mainly because Bonomie’s contract as a coach is staying renewed. LeMonds confirmed Bonomie’s contract will be renewed on June 30, 2022.

Sweet’s combat isn’t always with the head mentor but the district’s final decision to place Bonomie in the posture.

“The genuine challenge listed here is the structural issue the institutional difficulty,” Sweet reported. “It’s really very clear the Ad instructed just one tale to the mothers and fathers and gamers that is a lot of lies. That tale has been buried by the university program. If a background check out was executed, then all of these revelations we are speaking about right here now that are proved to be lies would have arrive out.”

Sweet says now it is time for the district to action up and be leaders for their pupils, particularly when it will come to the selecting course of action.

“What I have viewed regularly, there are styles of grownups trying to defend their very own interests in advance of the young children, and it transpires over and more than and above yet again,” Sweet said. “Whether it’s the choosing of Ads, no matter whether it’s the procedure of head coaches, it’s appalling and shameful. The grown ups who are supposed to be safeguarding the kids are putting their interests initial.”

He states even even though he is not a mentor anymore, he will always be on his players’ group by supporting them in any way he can, and he claims which is why he’s talking out.

“I sense like I owe it to our young ones in the first occasion. And then to their dad and mom and possibly to the parents of MMSD to move up and increase my voice because the way the program is functioning is just flawed.”

Sweet says in purchase to make things correct, in his eyes, Bonomie requirements to move down or the district requirements to fire him. He is then calling for a full and open look for for the following head coach.

NBC15 sent 4 e-mail to Bonomie’s two distinct e-mail addresses and left two messages to his cell phone range.

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