Ed Repulski, who coached a Florida high school golf team for 40 years, and was the first athletic director, first basketball coach, one of its first teachers, dies

SARASOTA, Fla. – To friends and colleagues at his beloved Riverview High School, he was “The Ripper.”

But to the only child of Ed Repulski, he was, simply, “Ace.” Walking the hallways of Riverview, Ram student Jill Strafaci often would see her father. “But I couldn’t yell, ‘hey, dad’ down the hallway every time,” she said. “So, I called him Ace.”