Cardinal Mooney High names new football coach

The move comes a week after the departure of Drew Lascari.

By Ryan Kohn
| 5:00 p.m. February 9, 2018

The Cougars will be manned on the sidelines by Paul Maechtle next season

Sarasota
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Cardinal Mooney High wasted no time in hiring its next football coach.

Paul Maechtle will lead the Cougars next season. Maechtle has been a Cougars assistant coach since 2014. Before that, he coaches Bradenton's Southeast High for 33 years, leading the Seminoles to back-to-back state championships in 1993 and 1994. He joined Southeast in as an assistant coach in 1974.

Maechtle will replace Drew Lascari, who announced on Feb. 2 he was leaving the program to join Rutgers University as a quality-control coach. Lascari was 15-17 over three seasons at Cardinal Mooney.