Jun 2, 2015 2 min read

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After winning WPIAL basketball championships and almost 600 games as Monessen’s boys basketball coach, Joe Salvino has become synonymous with high school athletics in the Mon Valley.

The Greyhounds’ boys basketball coach now has an additional job title. Salvino was approved as the next head football coach by the Monessen School Board at Tuesday’s meeting.

Salvino takes over for Andy Pacak, whose job was opened in mid-April after 11 seasons with a 75-40 overall record and five conference titles. Salvino spent 26 years as an assistant, including last fall as an assistant coach at California Area High School.

The 63-year-old hasled Monessen’s boys basketball team to the WPIAL playoffs in all 31 of his seasons as head coach, including ten trips to the championship game and now has 582 career victories – just 18 wins from the 600-win mark – and holds a .714 career winning percentage. He also led the Greyhounds to back-to-back PIAA Class A titles in 1988-89. He won his fifth WPIAL title Feb. 27 when the Greyhounds defeated Jeannette, 73-57, for the Class A championship at the Petersen Events Center.

Salvino confirmed to the Observer-Reporter that he will remain the school’s boys varsity basketball coach.