Ryan Martin: "Fran Bositis takes his final bow after 53 years as Franklin’s boys’ soccer coach"

"As a fresh-faced 23-year-old finding his way after graduating from UMass Amherst, coaching soccer was not on the mind of Fran Bositis in 1971.

But then Franklin High athletic director Jerry Leone had limited options for Bositis, the new physical education teacher at the middle school next door.

Bositis wanted to join the coaching staff of the school’s well-established football team. But Leone could only offer Bositis the lead on boys’ varsity soccer, which was in its second year of existence.

Fifty-three years, 532 career wins, and countless athletes impacted later, Bositis recently stepped down as coach.

“It’s time to move on and start a new chapter,” said the 76-year-old Bositis. “It was never a job to me, it was my hobby because I’m not a golfer and I don’t fish.”

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Ryan Martin: "Fran Bositis takes his final bow after 53 years as Franklin’s boys’ soccer coach"