Tamaqua Area School Board, on a 7-0 vote Tuesday, with directors Mark Rother and Thomas Rottet absent, approved the following coaches for the 2017-18 school year:

• Thomas Kanger, Jr., head track and field coach• Michael Sakash, assistant track and field coach #1• James McCabe, assistant track and field coach #4• Terry Knoblauch, head junior high football coach• William Brad Murphy, assistant junior high football coach• William Stalgaitis, volunteer assistant football coach• Matt DeAngelo, volunteer assistant junior high football coach• Frank McCarroll, junior varsity boys basketball coach• Michael Murphy, freshman boys basketball coach• Brain O' Donnell, seventh grade boys basketball coach• Tricia Kanick, assistant varsity girls basketball coach• Gina M. Manbeck, junior varsity girls basketball coach, eighth grade girls basketball coach, and seventh grade girls basketball coach• Alexandria Wagner, volunteer assistant girls soccer coach• Matthew Stine, volunteer assistant golf coach, stipend will include $12.95 per hour, providing transportation for the team, which is reimbursed by the booster club.• Jessica Mazaika, volunteer assistant tennis coach• MariAnn Shilko, assistant swimming coach #2.• Melissa Hess, head cheerleading coach• Tim Ziegler, assistant cheerleading coach