Manassas Park High Welcomes New Activities Director

Manassas Park High School will have a new activities director for the 2011-2012 school year. 

Daniel Forgas, a Woodbridge native, was hired for the position and was formally introduced to the Manassas Park City Schools School Board June 20 during a regular meeting.

“I would like to say thank you for this opourtunity that's been giving to me," Forgas told the school board.  "It’s something that I cherish and its something that I'm literally excited to move forward in the future with."

For three years, Forgas was the director of student activities at Woodbridge High School.

“It was a homecoming for me," he said.  "As a graduate of Woodbridge High School, I had that chance to go back and serve in a place where I played football and did sports and did activities, and it was a wonderful experience."

 From there, he went to Loudoun County where he was the assistant athletics director at Loudoun County High School.

“... it was a lot more of the field and the outside and the maintenance of things which is different from my role at Woodbridge where I was purely the administrator,” he said.

 This month, Forgas said he visited Manassas Park High with the outgoing activities director Michael Peters.

 “No matter which corner we turned, no matter which door we went through, there was always someone that was smiling,” Forgas said. “It was friendly. One day there, and it was home for me. So I’m very happy and I’m very excited.”

 While he is not from Manassas Park, working here is like coming home because it is near Prince William County where he went to high school, he said.

 His wife is an administrator in Prince William County and he feels like they are not going anywhere, anytime soon,  Forgas said.

 The students are why he does what he does, he said. When he wakes up in the morning, he smiles because he gets to go and deal with sports and clubs and activities, Forgas told the board.

“For those that don’t, they don’t know the pleasure of doing it,” he said.