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She's certainly support- a common vision, then gen- ive as far as supporting me Continued from page C-I erally you're successful win- in the coach capacity. She's loss wise. And conversely, real positive and a steady Is that what you were in when you don't have that, influence lots of times. high school? when you have everybody Yeah running in different direc- What's her name? tions, it's a challenge to win. Lisa, and she's on the side- What's the official degree I think it's like that every- lines, she traipses back and you got from Western? where unless you're overly forth and usually stays out A Bachelor of Science in in- git~ed with great athletes or of trouble. Every once in dustrial arts, that's old-time you have none. But I think awhile, she gets too close to verbage, for woodshop, the biggest trademark ofofficials or something. the kids we get here is they Do you have any other are generally A, hardwork- Do you have children? degrees? ing and B, they generally We have two kids that are I do now. i'm certified to attempt to share a common pretty much grown. We've teach math, health and vision or goal. got a daughter that's 23 driver's education, now, her name's Hailey. What do you think of She just graduated from What has heen your most winning Best Mason Washington State. And I've successful season with County Coach? got a son who is 20 and he's the Highelimbers? Its certainly a nice gesture, at Washington State right About five or six years ago I know there are a lot of now, his name's C.D. Actu- whenwe went 9-0 betbre get- qualified coaches out there, ally, he's more sophisticated ting beat, in terms of wins- I hopeit's a reflection of kids now and goes by his actual losses. Success, I think, you having.a great experience, name, which is Clarke. can measure iI~many dii~r- They're good kids and I've ent ways. The biggest thing On a more personal lev- really enjoyed the.opportu- is having the opportunity to el, I've noticed your wife nity to bring them up. work with a bunch of kidswalking up and down who are driven and want the sideline with you ev- to accomplish something cry Friday. Is she a great bigger than themselves, so source of support for you years we have that, I con- in your career? sider that a success. The Yeah, she's real support- biggest responsibility of a ive. It's a challenge being coach is two-fold: to get kids a coach in a community as close to their potential as set off by itself a little bit. possible and to (give)them You live in a bubble and positive litbhmg memories it carries over into being a that they ~an h,4~ I,ack on coacb's wife. There are re- tbndly, wards and I think women tend to gravitate toward relationships, so the benefit of being a coach's wife is the thct that if you play it right, you get relationships with high school kids. I don't Was there any year that was more difficult than the others? No two years are the same. Difficult as far as kids, I would say to a certain de- know how to say it right, gree, yes. But by and large but I think women are more the type of kids you get in relationship-oriented and Shelton are pretty good kids. she likes that aspect of it, They come out and work getting to see the kids and hard and when they've got a getting to know them a little Did you have the opportunity to coach either of them? Yeah, C.D. was the quarter- back here a few years ago and he's been at camps with the kids every since he was about 5, maybe, so he's been around the program for a long time. Was it different for you to coach your own son? Yeah, it was. A, we were Seeing kids come back after always an appealing thing. being out and working their Looking in the rearview way through life and being mirror, it's just where has successful. It's always a nice the time gone now? It's been feeling when they say that almost 30 years and some high school football in par- people move about a lot and ticular gave them tools that we haven't, for whatever enable them to be successful reason. and that they use them on a regular basis. That's prob- Is there a great coaching ably the biggest thing, dream you have or is this pretty much it? What's your biggest It used to be to have my own regret? little office in some college I think probably the time capacity, but they're such a engaged in being a coach. It challenge at the high school consumes you to a large de- level that I think the biggest gree at the expense of other thing is to have a program stuff. And every year goes a that consistently is able to little bit faster, play at a very high level, at a championship-type level. How much longer do We had it for quite a few you see yourself being a years and then the bottom coach? fell out the last few. That's I don't know, I really don't, always something I've ad- it's kind of a year-by-year mired, is coaches that have deal and that's a decision been able to year after year, that you kind of make every foster teams that compete at offseason. With the energy a very high capacity, wheth- and time involved, that's er they have the talent or certainly something that not. Some schools have the the older you get, the more advantage of being able to challenging it is. I feel for- pull some kids in, but we tunate to have a good staff don't have that, you get that carries quite a bit of the what you get. That's always load. That's a nice thing, been the goal, is to have something at a very high Did you have any jobs level, year after year. before you came to Shelton? Do you know what the No, I was straight out of col- key to that is? lege. A lot of it is luck. There's many factors that go into it; certainly a youth program is important, a stable and supportive administrative crew is important and then What brought you to here? going through a difficult. Back in the day, there stretch win-loss wise and to wasn't very many wood- compound that, he was the quarterback and everything funnels through the quar- terback. Internally, it was a real challenge for him. He's a great kid and he's working hard in college and being shop jobs out there and we'd you have to be consistent in hadn't competed against what you do, as far as your Shelton when I was in high schemes and how you deal school so I'd only been over with people and kids. here a couple of times my entire life, growing up a Is there anything else short distance away. There you can think to add at very successful, but back at wasn't any reason to come this point? the time, it was a tough go. over and I love the area No, I really appreciate the and the tradition of Shelton honor and like I said earlier, I(t (t[ What do you think you're kids has always been one of I'm sure there are qualified most proud of in your hardworking kids that are people that probably de- career? " pretty physical, so that was" served it more than I do LUBRI(AN [S 0 I L DIST. CO C()MPANY II I ;{ I[ We deliver COMPARE OUR LOW PRICES! _ Industrial Park It ~427- 8084 tl ~,~ ~:! ............. :: : ............ 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