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DAYTON — Fairmont High School Athletic Director Brian Donoher was arrested Wednesday and faces possible charges of soliciting prostitution.
The son of legendary former University of Dayton men’s basketball coach Don Donoher was booked into the Montgomery County Jail at 5:29 p.m. Charges are listed as soliciting and possession of criminal tools, both misdemeanors, although no charges had been formally filed, according to court records.
Bail for Donoher, 42, was set at $750 on the soliciting charge and $2,500 on the criminal tools charge. He was no longer listed as a jail inmate as of 9 p.m. Wednesday.
A court hearing is scheduled for 1:45 p.m. today.
At a varsity girls basketball game at Fairmont on Wednesday night, the news of Donoher’s arrest reached Assistant Athletic Director Joy Manning via email.
“I can’t believe it,” she told News Center 7.
Wednesday evening, Kettering City School Board members declined comment on the matter. Superintendent Jim Schoenlein said the school’s attorney has been contacted.
“We’re all shocked, of course,” he said. “We’ll wait for the details.”
Before becoming AD at Fairmont in 2008, Donoher spent 12 years as a men’s college basketball assistant coach with Wright State, Wittenberg, Akron, Stetson and Miami University.
Donoher, who played basketball for the Flyers for two seasons and also a year at Wittenberg, graduated from UD in 1992.
In 2000, he told the Dayton Daily News he passionately wanted to become a head coach one day.
It’s what led him back to Akron as an assistant after he had left following the 1997-98 season to start a career with an investment management firm. He served two stints as an Akron assistant spanning six seasons.
An Alter High School graduate, Donoher joined Wright State head coach Paul Biancardi’s staff in 2003.
Following Biancardi’s firing from WSU, Donoher, after applying to succeed Biancardi, became athletic director at Sidney High School in May 2006.
He has been the AD at Fairmont since May 2008, selected from a field of 120 candidates. He previously served as AD at Sidney High School.
“He’s a people person,” Kyle Ramey, director of human resources for Kettering City Schools, said at the time of Donoher’s hiring. “He’s a solid individual, a family man from the area. He has a lot of great qualities.”
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