Mark Duriancik named athletic director at Leechburg

By: Michael Love
Friday, October 27, 2023 | 5:46 PM

Leechburg again has an athletic director.

Mark Duriancik, a technology teacher in the school district, will assume the athletic director duties after the school board approved him Wednesday evening.

In addition to his teaching role at Leechburg, the North Apollo resident has experience coaching various high school sports, including football recently at Apollo-Ridge.

“We are thrilled to have him in this role,” Leechburg High School principal Doug Rodgers said Friday.

The athletic director position, which is part time, came open late last month when Angela Franke, who was hired in August to replace Andre Carter, who had stepped down in June, resigned to take the full-time athletic director position at Fairfield High School near Gettysburg.

Rodgers had served as the interim athletic director the past couple of weeks since Franke’s final day Sept. 29.

Duriancik will oversee the remainder of the fall sports season and transition to the winter season that begins with preseason practices starting Nov. 17.

The Blue Devils football team has qualified for the WPIAL Class A playoffs out of the Eastern Conference. Leechburg capped its conference slate Friday against Greensburg Central Catholic and will discover its first-round playoff opponent when the WPIAL releases the brackets at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Michael Love is a TribLive reporter covering sports in the Alle-Kiski Valley and the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh. A Clearfield native and a graduate of Westminster (Pa.), he joined the Trib in 2002 after spending five years at the Clearfield Progress. He can be reached at mlove@triblive.com.

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