Report: Troyer to take Winamac AD job

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Former Plymouth athletic director Josh Troyer will be hired as the new athletic director at Winamac, according to a published report Thursday.

Plymouth High School said in a media release Thursday that Troyer had resigned, effective July 3. Troyer had been the Plymouth athletic director since June 2023.

“We wish Josh the very best in his next professional opportunity and thank him for his service to Plymouth High School,” the media release said.

The Plymouth Pilot News then reported that Troyer was to take the Winamac athletic athletic director job. The Winamac job has been vacant since June 10 when Bryan Leverenz left to take the Benton Central athletic director job.

In an interview with The South Bend Tribune, Troyer said that he was “taking a different opportunity,” but he did not confirm or deny the reports that he was taking the Winamac job.

The next Eastern Pulaski School Board meeting is scheduled for 4:45 p.m. Tuesday.

Troyer also coached the girls golf team at Plymouth. Prior to coming to Plymouth, he was a girls golf and girls basketball coach at Manchester High School.

Coincidentally, both Plymouth and Winamac will have new football coaches in the fall.

Former Rochester coach Ron Shaffer was hired as the new football coach in January; he subsequently resigned in May with Brent Corbett replacing him on an interim basis for the 2026 season.

At Winamac, Eric Davis is the new football coach, replacing Josh Burgess. Winamac went 2-8 last season. Winamac also has a new volleyball coach in Kayley Kasten.

Troyer also hired new girls and boys basketball coaches and a new girls soccer coach at Plymouth since February.

With an enrollment of 326, Winamac is the largest school in the Hoosier North for all sports except for football. South Central (Union Mills), a member of the Hoosier North for football only, has an enrollment of 331.