Bishop LeBlond High School Principal Solon Haynes has announced the selection of Jeff Sullivan as the school’s varsity girls basketball coach. Sullivan has been the junior varsity and varsity assistant coach at Central High School the past seven years.

Haynes said he was pleased to get someone with Sullivan’s experience and his connections to the Bishop LeBlond community. “Jeff brings more than 12 years of basketball coaching experience as well as a relationship with Catholic education,” Haynes said. “Jeff’s wife Poppy Barbosa Sullivan is a 1996 graduate of LeBlond, his children attend St. Francis Xavier elementary school, and he spent a year here as a girls assistant coach working with Randy Grosdidier.”

Sullivan worked his way up within the Central High School boys basketball program beginning as the sophomore coach for one year in 2002, then spending two years as the freshman coach, and has been the JV and varsity assistant coach the past seven years. He also has been an assistant boys and girls soccer coach at Central since 2000. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Missouri State University and a master’s in secondary education leadership from Northwest Missouri State University.

Sullivan said he looks forward to working with the LeBlond student-athletes, the staff and the extended school community. “I am very excited for the opportunity to carry on, and add to, the tradition of Bishop LeBlond girls basketball,” he said.

Sullivan will begin his duties as LeBlond’s coach at the conclusion of this academic year. He will continue to teach physical education at Central.

— Bishop LeBlond Press Release —