Meet West Hartford’s newest head coaches for spring high school sports.

Submitted by West Hartford Athletic Director Betty Remigino-Knapp

TJ Rush. Submitted photo

TJ Rush is the new Head Girls Tennis Coach at Conard High School. He has taught English at Conard for 15 years. Rush’s experiences include being a tennis instructor and program director for West Hartford Leisure Services and Farmington Valley Racquet Club for the past 20 years. He runs camps and clinic for both youth and adult tennis players of all level. Rush played college tennis at both Stetson and Drew University.

Meg Chaplin. Submitted photo

Meg Chaplin is the new Head Girls Lacrosse Coach at Hall High School. Chaplin was an assistant for the girls lacrosse program at Hall the last three years. Chaplin works as a psychiatrist in New Britain, and previously coached the West Hartford Youth Lacrosse League for seven years. Chaplin played lacrosse and field hockey at Swarthmore college and was a co-captain her junior and senior years for both sports.

Sean Callahan. Submitted photo

Sean Callahan is the new Head Boys Lacrosse Coach at Hall High School. He currently works as a physical education teacher at Burlington Middle School. He previously coached JV lacrosse at both Hall and Conard along with varsity swimming at Conard and freshman football at Hall. From 2008-2011 he coach a combination of freshman, JV, and varsity lacrosse and Lewis Mills High School.

Danielle Dickman. Submitted photo

Danielle Dickman is the new Head Softball Coach at Hall High School. She is a health and physical education teacher at Hall. She has taught in West Hartford for the last three years. Dickman was an assistant coach for the Hall girls softball program last year. She has also coached freshman girls basketball at hall and middle school track at King Phillip.

Jim Holt. Submitted photo

Jim Holt is the new Head Boys Volleyball Coach at Hall High School. Holt has been the girls head coach for Hall since 2013 and has been a head girls coach for the Husky Travel Girls Volleyball program since 1999. Holt was previously the head coach at South Windsor for the boys volleyball program for 11 years.

Scott Sampietro. Submitted photo

Scott Sampietro is the new Head Boys Track and Field Coach at Hall High School. Sampietro is a teacher in the Technology and Engineering department at Hall. He was an assistant for the Hall indoor and outdoor track team for the last six years, and he took over as the Head Coach of Indoor Track and Field this past winter. Sampietro is USA Track and Field Level 1 Certified and ran track at Central CT State University.