BOWLING GREEN, Mo. — Bowling Green High School announced coaching changes in the football and basketball programs for the 2020-2021 sports season.

Jared Runyon will be the new high school girl’s basketball coach and assistant high school football coach. For the past five years Runyon has been at Palmyra High School. He served as an assistant girl’s basketball coach and assistant football coach. He will also be teaching science at the high school level.

Craig Smith, the current head girl’s basketball coach, will be shifting to boy’s assistant basketball coach, a position being left by open by Josh Early, who is departing the district. Smith will also continue to coach middle school softball. 

The Bobcats football team is also getting a veteran coach for another one of the assistant positions. Mark St. Clair will be joining the coaching staff after spending 22 years as the head coach at Hannibal High School. St. Clair retired from the Hannibal School District at the end of the 2019 school year and was inducted into the Missouri Football Coaches Associations Hall of Fame in 2017. He will be joining the staff consisting of Head Coach Joe Chinn, Offensive Coordinator Austin Leake along with Dan Grimes and Runyon. 

A shift in the football program came after Kevin Krietemeyer announced after Thanksgiving break he was leaving the district. Mike Schiebel, after serving as an assistant this past fall, will shift to the head coach of the middle school program. 

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