The search is over: Pima names new acting AD
By ANGEL CANEZ
Pima Community College has come to a decision and the search for a new acting athletic director is over. Soon to be former football coach Jim Monaco was awarded the job on Oct. 29.
“Jim was appointed and will be in this role ... through the balance of the academic year,” Pima Chancellor Lee Lambert said during the Oct. 30 press conference at the West Campus.
Monaco beat out four other candidates -- Pima soccer coach David Cosgrove; women’s basketball coach Todd Holthaus; Akira Kondo, Pima’s athletic trainer; and David Donderwicz, fiscal advanced analysis -- financial aid at Pima’s District Office.
Monaco is replacing Edgar Soto, who was Pima’s athletic director since 2016.
“It doesn’t bother me to say this, but Jim (Monaco) is going to do a better job than I...