Former athletic director now high school welding teacher

Retirement turned out to be a short-lived period for Tom Wilson, the former athletics director for Sweetwater County School District No. 2.

During the district’s meeting last week, Wilson was hired as Green River High School’s welding teacher.

“All I ever wanted to be was a teacher,” Wilson said.

Wilson started in the district in 1997 as GRHS’s welding teacher, moving into an administrative role as the athletics director in 2002.

Wilson also taught welding briefly at Rock Springs High School in 1980.

Wilson said he noticed the school’s welding position wasn’t filled in July, h...

 

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