New Schenectady athletic director Edgar Glascott has ambitious plans

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SCHENECTADY – Just a few days into his new job as the Schenectady athletic director, Edgar Glascott has many plans.

“I don’t sit still well at all,” Glascott said by phone. “I like being at the practices, at the games, on the sidelines at all levels, to listen to the parents to their needs and suggestions, work with the youth groups, and make sure they have everything they need. … So I can go to a modified game and say to a kid there, ‘Hey, nice game.’”

Glascott most recently served as the interim principal at Newburgh High School for two years. Prior to that, he was the athletic director there for two years. Before that, he worked as the AD at Greenburgh, and worked in the Poughkeepsie School District for 14 years.

He also has extensive coaching experience. He was the head men’s lacrosse coach at Marist College from 2001-03.

Glascott said he was looking to return to an athletics position.

“I have always enjoyed helping kids get to that next level,” Glascott said, “and working with them in groups and giving back so that they’re going in the right direction. I can help them with academics, time management, so they eventually have a clear understanding of what it takes to get to college or even to play a varsity sport.”

According to a Schenectady release, 100% of student-athletes graduated from Newburgh, and 90% earned college scholarships during Glascott’s tenure there.

Also while at Newburgh, he helped to add varsity boys’ and girls’ bowling, unified basketball and rowing for exceptional learners. He also organized and administered the district’s extracurricular athletic program.

Glascott said he feels it’s important that he work with the community, especially at the youth level, in order to help get more kids interested in sports at the middle and high school levels.

“I’d like those athletes and teams to do clinics with the younger kids,” Glascott said. “I think it’s great for varsity and JV programs to give back, and if you’re a kid, what’s better than working with the older kids who you see play?”

Glascott said he also wants to ensure that if a sport is offered at the high school level, that younger kids are exposed to it in their physical education classes.

As a former college coach, he also wants to help get more kids playing in college.

“I can help navigate them through that process so that they learn you can’t have that one semester off because it will hurt you, what grades and classes they need,” Glascott said.

Finally, he wants to bring back the rich tradition of success — one that he’s still learning about.

“I looked at that Hall of Fame wall and it’s amazing,” he said.
The number of athletes I’ve heard of, but didn’t know they were from Schenectady, and all those state and sectional titles.”

Contact Will Springstead at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @WLSpringstead.

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