METRO AREA -- When the Catholic High School League recently held its fall meeting of athletic directors, six new names were inserted into the roll call. In alphabetical order, they were:

Luke Condit, Wixom St. Catherine of Siena Academy – Condit spent the last eight years in Florida as associate dean of students at Ave Maria University. He’s coming to Michigan to take on dual responsibilities as dean of students and athletic director at St. Catherine, an all-girls school located in Wixom that is welcoming its second class of students this fall.

“Based on student interest and talent” from an expected enrollment of about 50 freshmen and sophomores, Condit is aiming to field junior varsity teams in volleyball, cross country and softball.

Kris Daiek, Riverview Gabriel Richard – He’s 38, but Daiek’s resume lists 20 years of experience in coaching and sports administration, all of it at Orchard Lake St. Mary’s.

He coached golf for 13 years and served a dozen years as assistant basketball coach at the prep, and six years as AD and head basketball coach at St. Mary’s College . For the last three years, he coordinated the summer sports camps at St. Mary’s.

On the job only since July 1, Daiek has had to deal with three coaching vacancies. One of them – boys basketball – he is filling himself. He is accepting applications for interested candidates for girls basketball and soccer.

Tim Dobrzeniecki, Royal Oak Shrine Catholic –A 2001 graduate of Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice (he was outside linebacker on the Warriors’ 2000 state champs), Grand Valley State and Michigan State (a master’s in athletic administration), Dobrzeniecki, 28, moves into the AD’s office after three years on the Shrine faculty and athletic staff. He coached golf for two years and will remain as an assistant football coach.

One of his first moves as AD was to hire Joe Jolet to succeed the Knights’ boys basketball coach of 16 years, Mike Massucci. Jolet most recently coached at Madison Heights Lamphere.

Nick Kocsis, Detroit U-D Jesuit – Kocsis comes to Detroit from the other side of Michigan, from Zeeland East High School, where he was assistant varsity football coach for the past seven seasons, helping to turn around a program that won one game in three years into an 11-1 championship season in 2010.

Describing the AD job as “an opportunity I could not let pass,” Kocsis says U-D Jesuit has “tremendous potential for growth in its tradition of academic and athletic success.”

In addition to directing a high school program that offers 30 teams in 14 sports, Kocsis will also oversee eight teams in seven sports in The Jesuit Academy, the institution’s seventh and eighth grade component.

Gary Radomski, Detroit Cristo Rey – Radomski brings 40 years of coaching background, on both CYO and high school levels, to his AD position at Cristo Rey. He’s coached football at Dearborn Divine Child, Redford Bishop Borgess, Allen Park Cabrini and Detroit St. Hedwig, and football, track and swimming at Redford Union.

He’s had to call on his ingenuity, however, at Cristo Rey, where he was the track coach this spring.

The school is located in the former Holy Redeemer High School in the Vernor-Junction neighborhood. “I had to use the parking lot to make up my own quarter-mile track,” he laughs, “but the kids have some talent.” He boasts that eight qualified for the state finals in track. “We had six medal winners.”

Alan Ramsden, West Bloomfield Frankel Jewish Academy – Ramsden’s original life’s goal was to be a teacher after getting a degree from Western Michigan University, but he went into law enforcement instead, recently winding up a 25-year career as an officer on the Westland Police Department.

“So I guess I’m going back to my roots, but I’ll be working with kids instead of working with criminals.”

The Jewish Academy participates in a dozen boys and girls sports as an associate member of the Catholic High School League. “I’ve been hearing nothing but glowing reports from parents and students about our involvement with the Catholic League,” Ramsden says.