Celebration of life for Gillespie, Mount Olive coach Don Dobrino on July 2
A celebration of life will be held for the longtime Gillespie and Mount Olive football coach Don Dobrino, nearly a year after his death in 2021. Do...
A celebration of life will be held for the longtime Gillespie and Mount Olive football coach Don Dobrino, nearly a year after his death in 2021. Dobrino, 15th all-time for wins in Illinois High School Association history with a 267-188-3 record, spent 27 seasons at Gillespie and 13 with the Wildcats. He came back at 80 years old for two more seasons with the Miners from 2015-16. That last number might make it seem like he was done with football. But Cookie Dobrino, who married Dobrino in 1978, said he never left the game.