McDonogh athletic director Jack MacMullen has appointed assistant Chet Janiga, 42, as the Eagles new baseball coach, Janiga confirmed Thursday.
Janiga replaces Al Poklemba, who in June accepted a position as athletic director at the Bullis School in Montgomery County.
Janiga is in his second year at McDonogh, having been an assistant in the football and baseball programs.
A four-year letterman in football and baseball at Bates College in Maine, Janiga spent eight years as assistant athletic director and baseball coach at Landon in Montgomery County.
Janiga, a history teacher at McDonogh, turned Landon's floundering baseball program into an Interstate Athletic Conference league runner-up during his final season. Before that, he spent two years coaching baseball at Berkshire High in Massachusetts.