Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Reiss Retires as Dragon AD.

Written Thursday August 31st at 11:30 AM

There will be new Athletic Directors at Troy, Clarkston, and now Orion. 

The Orion Athletic Department will have a new face controlling the Athletic Department in 2016-2017 school year.

Orion Athletic Director Bill Reiss has retired from his role as Athletic Director effective September 1st.

Reiss became Athletic Director in 2004 taking over for Jim Wood. He has been very successful in his role as AD. The Dragons won the 2007 Baseball, 2007 Girls Golf, 2010 Football, and 2012 Boys Track titles. He had led them to State final appearances in Football in 2008, Girls Volleyball in 2011, Cheerleading on numerous occasions, Girls Basketball State semifinal in 2009, Boys Basketball quarterfinal in 2012, and Girls Golf final in the last two years.

Reiss has appeared at so many sporting events ranging from soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, golf, volleyball, track, football, and even lacrosse. He hosted many districts and regionals being successful in each of them.

In 2016 the Orion Athletic Department was the third best in the nation by USA Today.

Reiss has been very successful coaching Girls Basketball and also largely involved in the swimming process. He has been in the school district for over 40 years.

There has been a replacement named for Reiss in the form of Chris Bell. Bell currently coaches football at Orion and will join Oak Park’s Greg Carter and North Farmington’s Todd Schultz as football coaches to have both the Athletic Director and Football coach’s role.

Stay tuned to OAA Now for this developing story.

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I have highest function of autism (Asperger Syndrome.) I'm a huge Dallas Stars fan. I like to play and watch football, especially when the Dragons play on Friday nights. I am a 2006 alum and used to play football for the Dragons. I ran track, I ran the 100, 200, 400 meter dashes along with shot-put and discus. During my time in Orion I was a manager for Junior Varsity Boys Basketball team. I'm the volleyball, girls basketball, and football announcer for the team and do the book on the road for girls basketball. I do the clock for volleyball in the fall along with girls basketball in the winter and announce some boys basketball games as well. In the spring I coach shot-put at Scripps Middle School, in my fifth season coaching. I run the shot-put for high school meets. I played Special Olympics Basketball, I've won three gold medals for them. I host "Between Taorminas" which is on ONTV along with a podcast called "OAA Now". In other various things outside of Lake Orion, I love to jet ski over Saginaw Bay. Saginaw Bay is basically my life. I'm a trained weather spotter for the National Weather Service for Oakland and Huron counties.