GREENVILLE – Greenville City School District Board of Education held its regular meeting, Thursday, February 19, 2025 at St. Clair Memorial Hall.
The board unanimously approved to accept the separation and resignation of Douglas Fries, Superintendent, Greenville City School, effective at the end of his contract, at the close of the day, July 31, 2025, as presented.
Earlier in the day, Greenville Athletic Director Aaron Shaffer was on the agenda for the evening meeting but was removed without comment or explanation before the meeting began.
Greenville junior, team captain, and starting quarterback of the Green Wave varsity football program Aiden Manix spoke on behalf of the football team, which had many high school football team members in attendance.
“For those who don’t know me, my name is Aiden Manix,” he said. “I am a junior at GHS, but for me, most importantly, I am a captain on the football team. This next season, I will be playing my last season of football with all my brothers. I won’t lie. After everything that has gone down, I have thought of transferring, but my love of my friends, teachers, and school just simply won’t allow me to.”
“I also know many other players have thought about transferring too, but they are also in the same boat as me, which is why I am here tonight with some of the guys on the team who have the same hunger as I do to win but right now, we don’t even have a coach to help us win.”
“We are so far behind the eight ball it’s almost embarrassing to be involved with. After we were far into the offseason we finally got into the weight room after I wrote a letter to our AD. By the way, we won’t have a lifting coach in eight days.”
“Until last week, we didn’t have a clue of who could possibly be our coach until Coach Shaffer, our AD, threw his hat in the ring, but now we are back to square one because he is not getting approved tonight.”
“We as a team need a coach now; we want the Greenville Football team to be the reason Greenville is successful from here on out,” Manix concluded. “We want to be the change around here. Thank you for listening to me speak, and I urge you to hear me out and figure this thing out.”
The board approved a supplemental contract for Adam Eberwein to serve as Strength/Conditioning Coordinator (Winter).
