WARREN – The Warren City School Board of Education will vote Tuesday (April 21, 2026) on the appointments of a new athletic director and varsity boys basketball coach.
Superintendent/CEO Steve Chiaro is making the official recommendation to name Tim Porter the district’s new athletic director and to hire Dan Bubon as the new varsity boys basketball coach.
Pending board approval, Porter and Bubon are set to begin their new positions July 1, replacing Rick
Shepas and Keelyn Franklin, respectively, who each resigned last month.
“I am excited to take both the basketball program and the athletic department forward under new leadership as we build upon the prior success in both areas, creating what we believe will be an outstanding experience for our student-athletes in our feeder programs, middle school and high school levels, preparing them to pursue any goals they have for the future,” Chiaro said.
Porter, who is currently the athletic director at Orange City School District, is a certified athletic administrator through the National Interscholastic Athletic Association. He formerly taught history and financial literacy at Weathersfield Local Schools from 2012 to 2021. He also worked as an
owner/operator of Porter Distributing from 2003 to 2004, and has experience in marketing and as an account representative.
He earned a Master’s Degree in athletic administration from Ohio University in 2020. He graduated from Youngstown State University with Bachelor’s Degrees in education/integrated social studies in 2011, and
business administration advertising and public relations in 1997.
“I’m incredibly honored and excited to be named the next athletic director at the Warren City School District,” Porter stated. “This opportunity is deeply personal to me. Growing up, I spent countless evenings attending Warren Harding or Western Reserve events with my grandfather, experiences that helped shape my love for athletics and the community of Warren. To now return in this role is truly special, and I look forward to building on that tradition while supporting our student-athletes, coaches,
and school with pride.”
Bubon has been Howland’s head boys basketball coach since 2016. Prior to that, he was in that same capacity at Liberty, from 2011 to 2016, and Champion from 2003 to 2011. He was also JV boys basketball coach at Warren. G. Harding High School from 1999 to 2003, and varsity assistant girls basketball coach at Harding from 1995 to 1999. He is a 1991 Harding graduate with a Master of Education Degree in curriculum and instruction from Ashland University in 1999; and a Bachelor of Science Degree in secondary social studies, grade 7-12, from Duquesne University in 1995.
He has been a social studies teacher at Harding for the past 31 years and will continue in that position.
“I am very excited to return to my home school as head boys basketball coach,” Bubon stated. “Since the job came open, I have received a tremendous amount of encouragement from the community to pursue
this job and I would like to thank everyone for their support. I thank Mr. Chiaro and the rest of the administration for their confidence in me, and look forward to getting started.”
The regular meeting of the Warren School Board of Education is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday at the McGuffey PK-8 School.
