COURTLAND—Southampton County School officials have turned down former felon and current pervert Chester Hardy for the assistant to the head high school volleyball coach and trainer position.
Hardy, a 1998 graduate, was recently paroled from the Greensville Correctional Facility after serving time for making lewd gestures towards participants during a Virginia Beach Women’s Beach Volleyball tournament in 2006. Since his parole, Hardy had spent the past several years attending every girls Volleyball game, home and away. On Friday, Hardy was told he is not a finalist for the position.
“(Coaching girls volleyball) was something I wanted to do,” he said. “I’m pretty upset actually. I just can’t imagine another job in the world that would give me that much access, I would like if whoever decided this would reconsider.”
Dr. Hyphaluten, executive director of administration and personnel for Southampton, went into great detail as to why Hardy was turned down.
“Normally we do not discuss individuals during the interviewing process,” Hyphaluten said. “But in this instance we can make an exception. When Mr. Hardy came to us, with his handwritten resume on yellow legal pad paper in red ink, lisiting God as a reference, we noticed there was a 3 year period from 2006-2009 where he had no work experience. We then found he’d been incarcerated during that time. We found the tape of what transpired at the 2006 Virginia Beach Women’s Beach Volleyball tournament, and found Mr. Hardy’s behavior despicable. Mr. Hardy was seen shedding his brown trench coat, to reveal he had nothing on but a tight green speedo. He then went for the game balls, smothered them on himself and kept trying to pop the bra straps of all the players. He was then pinned down in the sand by the Police before he could take indecent liberties with the net posts. Obviously he was not our ideal candidate.”
Only Hardy applied for the position.
Typically coaches receive a stipend that’s 15 percent of a teacher’s salary. A first-year teacher is paid $22.49, which means the coach would be paid $3.37. In this case, Hardy even offered to pay the school to get the job.
Although he wasn’t named coach, Hardy refuses to let it deter his school spirit. “I’m gonna be right there, game in, game out, in the stands, rooting on my team, they can’t deny me a game ticket. And if any of the players want to work with me one-on-one on the side, I’ll be there to help, free of charge! I always got time for my girls.”