PCOA appoints new chair, assistant chair
WARWICK, R.I. (August 25, 2022) – The Principals’ Committee on Athletics unanimously approved the nomination of Narragansett High School principal Daniel F. Warner to the position of PCOA Chairperson, at its August meeting held at the Rhode Island Interscholastic League Office. With Mr. Warner’s ascension to Chair creating a vacancy for the PCOA’s Assistant Chairperson, the PCOA also unanimously approved the nomination of Toll Gate High School principal Candace Caluori to that position.
The Principals’ Committee on Athletics serves as the governing body for the Rhode Island Interscholastic League, a private, non-profit voluntary organization of principals, whose mission is to provide educational opportunities for students through interscholastic athletics. The RIIL membership consists of 73 public, private, and parochial high schools, as well as alternate education/charter schools. The League sponsors athletic activities in 30 sports with more than 36,000 young men and women competing each year.
A member of the Principals’ Committee on Athletics since 2004 and the PCOA’s Assistant Chairperson for the last three years, Mr. Warner was honored as 2007 School Administrator of the Year by the Rhode Island Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association and 2009 R.I. Principal of the Year by the Rhode Island Association of School Principals. In addition to serving on the PCOA, he has chaired the RIIL’s Sportsmanship Committee and served as a co-director of football.
The principal at Toll Gate High School for the last six years and its assistant principal for six years prior to that, Mrs. Caluori served on the PCOA from 2001 to 2005 and re-joined the board last year. Formerly a physical education teacher and successful boys and girls volleyball coach for more than a decade, she previously served as the RIIL’s sport director for girls tennis for a number of years.
Mr. Warner succeeds Sean Kelly, who submitted his resignation as PCOA Chairman after stepping down from his position as principal of Cranston High School East to work in Central Administration in the Cranston School Department. RIIL Executive Director Michael Lunney presented Mr. Kelly with a plaque recognizing and thanking him for his 10 years of dedicated service to the Principals’ Committee on Athletics, including the last three years he has served as the chairperson.