Owens Community College trustees fire their former basketball coach

11/14/2006

Owens Community College fired its director of athletics and former basketball coach yesterday, passing on information about him to the Wood County Prosecutor s office.

Other than stating that the dismissal of Jim Welling was for cause, Owens spokesman Brad Meyer declined to speak about the reasons for the firing by the college s board of trustees.

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