Joseph Urmann Selected to Lead Highlanders Boys Basketball

The Baldwin-Whitehall School Board passed a motion, 7-1, on Wednesday night to hire Joseph K. Urmann as the newest head varsity boys basketball coach at an annual salary of $9,549.

Sam DiNardo Jr. was the only board member to vote "no." Fellow board member Diana Kazour was late to the meeting and missed the vote on that motion.

Urmann takes over the program from Kyle DeGregorio, who was removed as head coach by the school board in June .

Baldwin High's boys team went 9-13 overall in 2010-11 and 4-10 in section play to miss the WPIAL playoffs.

Baldwin competes in Section 4 of WPIAL's AAAA, or highest, classification. That section is considered by many experts to be one of the most competitive in the WPIAL.

Baldwin went 14-8 overall in 2009-10, including a 9-3 record in Section 4 to earn a spot in the WPIAL playoffs as the section runner-up.

Prior to Urmann's hiring, Gavin Prosser was selected as Baldwin's new head varsity girls basketball coach. Read a Patch profile on Prosser .

Urmann was not present at Wednesday night's meeting.

UPDATE: Urmann was formerly an assistant varsity boys basketball coach and the head junior varsity boys basketball coach at Mt. Lebanon High School.

Check back with the Baldwin-Whitehall Patch for more odds and ends from Wednesday night's school board meeting.