Good thing she used to be a soccer player. Since late June, Lizanne Coyne has been running at full steam.

“I haven’t had too much sleep since my arrival,” said St. Mary Academy’s new principal, whose fully rebranded and improved school building opened for its first day, Wednesday, Sept. 4. “My son and I moved down here, and a few days later I got right to work. We haven’t been to the beach as much as I had hoped, but that’s OK.