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In the end, Rick Malnati was true to himself in making the decision Friday to resign as basketball coach at New Trier after a successful 12-year run.
“I’m leaving a pretty special place,’’ Malnati said. “You don’t get any better than New Trier. I love New Trier, the kids and all the support. It was such a comfortable place to work and teach.
“But being comfortable is not something I strive for. I need to be a little scared when I go to work. I need a change to make me better. I need to have a little more drive. That’s who I am.
“I’m not leaving for some particular other job. It’s more like a leap of faith. And I’m not limiting myself to a job on the college level. I’m looking for another challenge.”
Malnati was a standout point guard at New Trier West and went on to play that position at Bradley. After graduating from college, he worked for 15 years in the family business—Lou Malnati’s pizza restaurants—and then the dozen years heading up the Trevians.
Few coaches in the state were better at getting the most out of his players. Rarely blessed with major-college recruits, Malnati’s precision-passing offense featuring high screens and backdoor cuts and the way his system maximized three-point shooting led the Trevians to a number of upsets.
Perhaps the most memorable was the United Center supersectional in 2002, when Proviso East boasted a lineup of three Division I recruits—Dee Brown (Illinois), Shannon Brown (Michigan State) and Charles Richardson (Nebraska). The Trevians pulled off a stunning upset and finished fourth in Class AA.
“I’ve really enjoyed working with all the kids,” Malnati said. “Look at Todd Townsend. He is an assistant coach at Northeastern now. He is really an exceptional young man and what a turnaround in his life.”

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COSHOCTON - Coshocton Business and Professional Women (BPW) will join with hundreds of other organizations - women’s, civil rights, labor and community - on Tuesday, April 22, to call attention to the wage gap in which women, on average, are paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to men.
April is symbolic of the point into the next year that a woman must work in order to earn the wages paid to a man in the previous year. Because women typically earn less, they must work longer for the same pay. Over a working lifetime, this wage disparity costs the average American woman and her family an estimated $523,000 in lost wages.
“BPW/USA encourages employers to take advantage of the Equal Pay Self-audit that is available at www.bpwusa.org. The wage gap affects workingwomen and their families and impacts future planning; lower wages follow women into retirement during which they receive lower pensions and Social Security benefits based on their previous salaries,” said Nancy Jackson, president of Business and Professional Women/USA (BPW/USA).
Locally, BPW members accepted an Equal Pay Day Proclamation from Mayor Steve Mercer to call attention to the continuing wage disparity and to educate women and men about solutions to wage discrimination. The Coshocton Public Library will have a display poster of Equal Pay facts. On Monday, April 21, BPW members will discuss Equal Pay Day and ways to close the pay gap on the WTNS Talk Show.
Local businesses will show their support of Equal Pay Day by offering discounts on drinks and meals on Tuesday, April 22, to patrons who say, “Today is Pay Equity Day.” Dominos will take $1 off any order. Any drink will cost 23 cents at East of Chicago Pizza. If you buy a large or extra large pizza at the regular menu price, you will get a medium cheese pizza for 23 cents at Papa Johns.

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