Preble High School’s Mark Jonas ‘will not continue’ as head football coach, interim named for 2024-25

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Green Bay Preble High School announced a change in the coaching staff for the 2024-25 football season according to Principal Courtney Kuehn and Associate Principal/Director of Athletics Daniel B. Retzki.

In a release addressed to parents, the school said that Mark Jonas will not continue in his role as the head football coach. The Wisconsin Football Coaches Hall of Fame Inductee was hired in February.

“When I was offered the position at the beginning of February,” Jonas said. “We were already talking teaching positions to go along with it, because it’s very typical to have your head coaches in the building.”

Jonas said that there were no openings at the time, but he was told to “trust the process.”

“There was never a guarantee of the job,” Jonas said. “In trusting the process then, I resigned from my position as a teacher, athletic director and football coach up at Southern Door.”

Jonas says he was told to be patient after a Monday meeting and was in a meeting when the “kids that I was no longer the coach.”

Brad Boockmeier will serve as the interim head coach, according to the release, and will be “working diligently to fill the remaining current open positions within our football program.”

“The Green Bay Public School District expresses its gratitude for Mark’s commitment and service to Preble High School,” the release said.

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