BANGOR, Maine -- A former varsity girls soccer and basketballcoach at Nokomis Regional High School in Newport pleaded guiltyWednesday at the Penobscot Judicial Center to drunken driving.
Kori Dionne, 31, of Glenburn will serve her mandatory 72-hoursentence next month in the alternative sentencing program, whichincludes community service.
She resigned her coaching positions in late June but continues towork for Nokomis as an educational technician, according to herattorney, Joshua Tardy of Newport.
Dionne pleaded guilty Wednesday at the Penobscot Judicial Centerto operating under the influence of intoxicants, a Class D crime.She was arrested June 8 in Bangor after a Falvey Street residentcalled police to report a running car in the middle of the roadwaywith a woman asleep inside, police said last month.
Her blood alcohol level was 0.21 percent, more than twice thelegal limit of 0.08 percent, according to the Penobscot CountyDistrict Attorney's Office.
In addition to ordering Dionne to attend the alternativesentencing program working over the weekend of Aug. 11-12 at a localschool, District Court Judge Bruce Jordan ordered her to pay themandatory minimum $600 fine for a first OUI conviction plus fees andsurcharges. The judge also ordered that her license be suspended for90 days.
Tardy said after the sentencing that it was important that Dionneaccept responsibility for her crime.
'She's looking forward to moving on with her life,' he said.
Dionne, a former point guard for Bangor High School and a 1999graduate of the school, took over as coach of the Nokomis Warriorsgirls basketball team in 2007 and became the girls soccer coach in2008, according to a previously published report.
Dionne led the girls basketball team to the Eastern Maine Class Bchampionship game three years in a row, this year with an undefeatedteam that lost to Presque Isle in the finale.
She has a career record of 70-32 as the basketball coach,including 56-9 the last three years in Class B after two seasons inClass A, according to information in the Bangor Daily News sportsarchives.
Dionne has a career record of 26-28-3 in four seasons as thegirls soccer coach, including 24-16-3 since the Warriors moved fromClass A to Class B in 2009.
As a player at Bangor, Dionne was on the Rams team that advancedto the 1999 Eastern Maine Class A final, and she was a PenobscotValley Conference softball all-star and Maine Softball CoachesAssociation all-star.
