Spring-Ford High School and Methacton High Schools are both breaking in new softball coaches this spring. Evan Wheaton profiled the new leadership for PA Prep Live.

Spring-Ford’s need for a new coach became evident last year.

Veteran coach Tim Hughes retired after a 25-year run. It climaxed in the 2022 PIAA championship, a Rams first.

His replacement, Sean Corropolese, is a 1991 Spring-Ford grad who served under Hughes for decades.

Reflecting an ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it outlook Corropolese doesn’t expect a wholesale revision in his coaching style.

The managerial changeup at Methacton is more extensive.

Coach Cathy Miller’s retirement after 41 years has ushered in new regime:

• Head coach Lee Terry
• Varsity assistant Stephanie Pijanowski
• J.V.coach Meghan Brogan

Miller fully recognizes the task ahead of him: emerging from the long shadow cast by Miller’s long-term record of softball success with the Warriors.

“It’s all anybody at the school has known,” he said of her legacy. “There are kids on the team whose moms played for Coach Miller. It’s all Methacton knows.”

More on these two new softball coaches in Montgomery County is at PA Prep Live.

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The Methacton Warriors v. the team from Pope John Paul II High School in an Apr. 2022 match-up.