Fork Union's Matt Donohue is Saturday's Featured Guest

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This week's guest on The Passing Game with Fletcher Arritt is Fork Union Military Academy's prep basketball coach, Matt Donohue.  The first FUMA prep coach (including co-host Brooks Berry) to win a Virginia Prep Championship in the conference's 38-year history, Coach Donohue works closely with Coach Arritt's post-graduate squad while directing his high school program. 

Coach Donohue began his winning ways at Fishburne Military Academy in Waynesboro, Virginia where he was a team captain and helped lead his team to a Virginia Independent Conference Championship during his senior year (1997).  From there, Donohue went on to Wilkes University in Pennsylvania.  In his first season, the Colonels won the Mid-Atlantic Conference Championship and made an appearance in the NCAA Division-III Final Four in Salem, VA.  After one year at Wilkes, Donohue transferred to Longwood University.  During his junior year, the Longwood Lancers won the Carolinas-Virginia Conference Championship and made it to the second round of the NCAA Division-II Tournament.  In his final year at Longwood, Donohue was a team captain and played in all thirty-one games.  

An English teacher, Coach Donohue spent two years as the assistant varsity and head junior varsity coach at Varina High School outside of Richmond, VA.  In 2006, he moved into his current position at Fork Union.  As FUMA's head prep basketball coach, Donohue has guided his team to the Virginia Independent Schools Division-I State Tournament each of the past three years; his 2010 squad won the Virginia Prep League Conference Tournament for the first time in Fork Union History.  

Coach Donohue comes from a basketball family.  His grandfather, Ed Donohue, coached at King's College in Pennsylvania from 1968-1983.  He is currently the program's all time winningest coach and was influential in the development of future NBA great Calvin Murphy while an assistant at Niagara University from 1963-1968.  Matt's father, Ed Donohue III, played for his dad at King's and had a professional career as a player/coach in New Zealand.  Donohue works with Coach Arritt at Fork Union on a daily basis and we are delighted to  have him as a guest on The Passing Game.