Hope High School Teacher and Former Coach Arrested on Domestic Assault Charges

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Hope High School PE Teacher and former Hope High coach David Nyblom. PHOTO: File

A Hope High School physical education teacher has been arrested on domestic assault charges, GoLocal has learned.

David Nyblom - a three-time Rhode Island High School Boys Basketball Coach of the Year— was arrested on Thursday.

According to his biography, he first coached at Hope since 1989.

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He was the focus of sportswriter Bill Reynolds’ 2017 book, “Hope: A School, A Team, A Dream.”

Prior to working in Providence, Nyblom was the varsity coach in North Kingstown in the 1980s.

He has also worked at the University of Rhode Island and at numerous camps and clinics. 

He coached the Hope boy's basketball team for about three decades and, more recently, was an assistant coach for the girl's basketball team at St. Andrew's School in Barrington.

 

Editor's Note: A previous version identfied Nyblom as the current coach at Hope. He is the former coach.

 
 

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