- April 29, 2011
Skyview QB Kieran McDonagh #23 On Rivals Top 100 Washington Prep Football 2012 Prospect Ranking
Skyview QB Kieran McDonagh completed 71.8% of his passes, passing for 1545 yards and 24 TD's in 2010 earning 1st Team 4A All-GSHL QB honors - Photo by Dirk Knudsen
Dirk Knudsen of WashingtonPreps.com just released 1-25 of the top 100 Washington football players for the class of 2012, and Skyview QB Kieran McDonagh is ranked #23.
The best of the bunch from the Vancouver area along the might Columbia. He is a terrific QB who has been leading the passing leagues and has proven he can run anytime he wants. Great size and feet and makes all the throw. Lesser known but it would be a mistake not to check out a Skyview Game this year and watch him play. Also a gifted defender.
Dirk Knudsen - washingtonpreps.com
McDonagh is the 3rd rated Quarterback in the state behind Jeff Lindquist of Mercer Island (#5 overall) and Drew Austin of Graham-Kapowsin (#17 overall).
“I feel really honored to be included in the Top 100 football players in Washington,” said McDonagh. “I have been working really hard to get there, and will continue to work hard this off season. I’m just going to keep working hard and hopefully crack the top ten at some point.”
Seeing a Skyview football player on the states top prep football prospect list is nothing new. Last year Skyview ATH Ellis Henderson was rated #11 and WR Karl Graves was rated #41. (You can read that story here.)
“I’m lucky and honored to represent Skyview and our football program as whole,” McDonagh added. “To be a representative of my school really means a lot to me and I know that my fellow teammates and coaches are very supportive of my achievements.”
Skyview should be the early favorite in this falls 4A Greater St. Helens League as the Storm are looking for their 4th consecutive GSHL Title.
Having McDonagh back is a big reason for the Storm’s optimism, but the 6’2″ 225lb QB knows he’s not the only reason.
“We have a really great staff and I would not have been able to accomplish the things I have without my teammates, especially the supporting group I have around me on offense. This next season should be a great one and we are all working hard as a team so that we can hopefully do something that will be amazing. All the Way to State. 129.”
Top 10
1 – Joshua Garnett OL Puyallup
2 – Zach Banner OL Lakes
3 – KeiVarae Russell RB Mariner
4 – Cedric Dozier ATH Lakes
5 – Jeff Lindquist QB Mercer Island
6 – Trent Sewell WR Bothell
7 – Nathan Dean OL Juanita
8 – Walker Williams OL Tacoma Baptist
9 – Jake Eldrenkamp OL Bellevue
10 – Michael Rector WR Bellarmine PrepYou can see the full list as well as read comments on all ranked players at WashingtonPreps.com.
NOTE: Home page photo by Dave Scott
- April 26, 2011
Camas Papermaker WR Jonathan Warner Highlight Video On Vimeo
Camas Papermaker WR Jonathan Warner has a very nice highlight video on Vimeo. Please note, this video was not produced by www.gshlfootball.com but by Daniel Kielty.
If you are aware of any other GSHL players who have highlight videos on vimeo, please let us know (send e-mail to bryan@gshlfootball.com) and we will showcase them here as well.
- April 20, 2011
WIAA Votes To Lower Running Clock Threshold From 45 To 40 Point Second Half Lead
The WIAA voted 23-11 to lower the running clock rule from a 45 pt lead to a 40 pt lead
On April 24, 2009 the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Representative Assembly passed the “Running Clock” rule to keep blow-out football games from getting out of hand.
The running clock rule would go into affect in the second half of any WIAA football game as soon as one of the team had a 45 point or greater margin lead. From that point until the end of the game the clock would continue to run through normal stoppage times such as running the football out of bounds, an incomplete pass, or gaining a first down. The clock would only stop on scores and upon an official timeout.
Monday the WIAA Representative Assembly was at it again. They voted 23-11 to lower the margin needed from 45 to 40.
After a quick polling of several Greater St. Helens League head football coaches, the reaction is not positive.
“I don’t like it,” said Terry Hyde, Prairie Falcons head coach.
“I’m not a big fan of the rule change,” said new Fort Vancouver head coach Eric Ollikainen, ”…or even the original rule itself.”
The original rule Ollikainen references, the 45 point margin rule, was voted in largely in part after all the attention given to Lakes’ 83-0 victory over Sumner in October of 2008.
Proponents of the running clock rule state that it helps the losing team by not allowing the players to be embarrassed, and it prevents better teams from running up the score. While critics of the rule point out that football is not only about wins and loses. The game should be used to teach life skills to high school kids and that learning how to handle adversity is a major part of that. Also, when games get out of hand both teams can empty their benches and get younger players valuable varsity playing experience. Experience otherwise not gained in close games when the mistake of a young player could change the outcome of the game.
Since the rule went into affect at the beginning of the 2009 season, Prairie and Fort Vancouver have combined to lose 5 “running clock” games. Yet despite these big loses, neither Hyde nor Ollikainen felt that the rule did their teams any good.
“Every play in the football season is sacred,” Ollikainen went on to say. ”I don’t like any rule that limits the number of plays our athletes’ get to play. In fact, I’d even like to see high school go to fifteen minute quarters.”
But what about the players at Fort Vancouver? Don’t they benefit from getting the game over quicker? Again, Ollikainen says no.
“Hurrying the game up does not do anything to save our self esteem. The kids know when they are losing. At some point we need to forget the scoreboard and just focus on getting better. All of the coaches around here do a good job of pulling their starters when the game gets out of hand. If there is a J.V. team out there that can run the score up on our varsity, more power to them. We are not going to back down to anyone and we don’t want anyone to back down, or back off, on us. We will teach our players to play with the same intensity whether we are tied, up by fifty or down by fifty.”
The Falcons have three times lost valuable playing time due to the running clock rule in both big wins and tough loses. In 2009 Union took a 45-0 lead late in the 3rd quarter and last year Prairie took a 54-7 lead over Hockinson early in the 4th. Both of these games still had roughly 3 quarters of real football played, however just 3 weeks after the Hockinson win, Prairie trailed Camas 48-0 at halfime, meaning the entire 2nd half was played under a running clock wasting precious snaps for younger players on both squads.
“It doesn’t let coaches manage the game and get playing time for players that otherwise wouldn’t get varsity experience,” said Hyde.
Lakes head football coach Dave Miller took a lot of heat when his Lancers defeated Sumner 83-0 in 2008 - Photo By Dirk Knudsen
But ‘come on’ you say? 83-0 is uncalled for right? If any team wins by that much, they HAD to be running up the score, and something needs to be done to stop it. That’s not what Lakes head coach Dave Miller says.
“It is not as simple as just reading a score in the paper over the morning coffee,” said Miller when asked about his teams win being the poster child of the WIAA rule.
“We did take a lot of heat for the Sumner score that people read in the paper and jumped to conclusions on. If a person was there, they would have seen that we did nothing wrong, it was a classic case of one team coming out on fire and the other team making critical errors and putting their heads down and quitting early. We lead 48-0 at the end of the first quarter. We started subbing in the FIRST quarter.”
Miller also pointed out that Sumner head coach Keith Ross was not upset after the game was over.
“The head coach from Sumner had NO problems with anything we did right after the game at our midfield handshake. It was a combination of it being a mismatch, mistakes, and a team quitting and not trying. It didn’t matter that night what we did, the score was gonna be up there. We could have scored 200 that night if we didn’t handle it the right way.”
That brings up the question, ‘If a 45 point running clock rule is no good, then why lower it to 40?’
Camas head coach Jon Eagle posed that question when we asked him his feelings on the new rule.
“First of all – why?,” asks Eagle. “What research did they do to arrive at that number?”
We asked WIAA Executive Director Mike Colbrese why the rule was changed and if there had been any research to back it up.
Colbrese responded to our question by telling us that the rule change was “proposed by schools out of the Greater Spokane League” and that they pointed out that “40 points is over a five touchdown lead and that a number of games have exceeded even a 45 point spread.”
While mathematically this is correct, 40 points is greater than a five touchdown lead, or 35 points, and he is right there are still plenty of games that end with margins of victory exceeding 45 points, that doesn’t answer either if any research had been done to come up with that number or if that actually is good for football.
Lakes coach Dave Miller again wonders why his 83-0 win gets all the attention.
“The thing that bothers me a ton is that since that game I have seen scores statewide up in the same range and nothing is written or said. If you pick up the paper on Saturday morning each week you will see several scores on the 60-70-80 to nothing ranges. It is pretty common and I haven’t seen anyone ripped like I was about it. Curtis beat someone this year 77-0 and nothing was written.”
Union football fans have become all to familiar with the running clock rule over the past 2 seasons. The Titans have won 9 games in which they evoked the running clock, including 5 games in a row form week 3 through week 8 of the ’09 season and they even won 2 post season games that season as the game ended with a running clock.
But Union head football coach and Athletic Director Cale Piland is also not a fan of the new rule change.
“I was not a proponent of this amendment. I felt that the original amendment and the 45 point margin was sufficient,” said Piland. ”Ultimately, coaches are responsible for the level of integrity they show when games get out of hand. If they show a lack of judgment, their building administration should address the issue accordingly. Those game situations are great opportunities for kids who work hard and don’t get as much playing time to experience Friday night football.”
Eagle also feels that game management should be an in-house matter. “I don’t like the state to mandate sportsmanship, or to control how we should run our programs,” he said.
As far as sportsmanship goes, I’m pretty sure if you looked up the word in the dictionary, you would see a picture of Mountain View head coach Adam Mathieson.
“As a coach that has been on both sides of these scores, I recognize that there are positive lessons that can come out of both sides of the equation,” said Matheison, Mountain View head football coach and Athletic Director. “The key for me is that we want our kids to compete for 48 minutes regardless of the scoreboard. If the game is out of hand one way or another, we believe that we, as coaches, need to manage the game with the utmost integrity; meaning once the game is headed a certain direction, we need to manage it accordingly.”
Mountain View head Coach Adam Mathieson is thankful that the clock didn't run faster when his Thunder lost 49-21 at Kelso in 2009 because he now has every second of that whipping engrained in his brain - Photo by Chris Chapman
As things started to click for his Thunder late last season, 3 of Mountain View’s final 4 regular season victories went to a running clock. However it’s their 2009 week 6, 49-21 loss at Kelso that Matheison remembers. Mountain View fell behind 49-7 in the 3rd quarter before scoring 2 4th quarter touchdowns. The game never hit a 45 point margin, but the 42 point lead Kelso had in the 3rd quarter will be enough under the new rule to get the clock running in future games, something Matheison would not have wanted then or now.
“We flat out got manhandled from pillar to post that night, so a 14-0 final frame wasn’t something we overtly celebrated,” he said. “However, that game did serve as a driving force for the 2010 football team and its commitment to Prepare and Compete at its highest level in all endeavors regardless of opponent or outside factors. In fact, we still talk about that night and how things unfolded and how we failed to respond, etc. to those adverse situations early in the game. We played to the scoreboard that night, rather than playing to be our best self for 48 minutes, and it showed. That night taught us a lot about ourselves as coaches, as players and as as a team. Further, it is nights like that that continue to drive us to spend those sleepless nights in the office trying to not have it occur again. Point being, I didn’t enjoy that evening at all, but I learned a lot more about myself and my team that night than any victory that I have ever been apart of, thus, I am thankful that the clock didn’t run faster. As a result, I have every second of that whipping engrained in my brain to drive me day after day.”
Dave Miller agrees that losing playing time is very detrimental to both younger players and to the starters who won’t be able to sit in the post season.
“My feeling is that kids only get to play high school football once and when you run the clock you take away valuable time they can never get back,” he said. “The bottom line for me is that I have to do what is best for my team. If we only play 1 quarter each week during the regular season, how will we be prepared for a tough Camas squad in the playoffs?”
Mike Colbrese said that the rule will be in affect throughout the entire season–regular and post season and that the decision was not made by the WIAA but by the member schools and that “The staff’s responsiblity is to implement their wishes.”
The vote of 23-11 (with 1 abstention) just barley exceeded the 21 votes, or 60%, needed to pass the new rule.
Let’s hope that somehow we can find 21 representatives who will vote to do away with the rule completely the next time around.
- April 16, 2011
Former Fort Vancouver Coach Gary Boggs Passed Away
Gary Boggs coached the Fort Vancouver Trappers from 1967-2000, he passed away April 14th 2011 at the age of 69
Thursday, long time Fort Vancouver football coach Gary Boggs, lost his battle with cancer at the age of 69.
Boggs was the head football coach for the Trappers for 34 seasons from 1967-2000 where he won 163 games and 5 league titles.
Only 15 coaches have coached more years of football in the state of Washington than Boggs. However Boggs spent all 34 of those with the Red & White, leaving only 2 men, Sid Otton of Tumwater and Bob Ames of Meridian who have coached longer at one school. (Both are still coaching and both are at 37 seasons and counting.)
When Boggs took over at Fort Vancouver in 1967, he replaced Chuck Furno who led the Trappers from 1954-1966. That’s 47 years of football with only 2 coaches. In 10 seasons since Bogges retired in 2000, the Trappers have had 3 head coaches, and this off season they hired a 4th.
New head coach Eric Ollikainen played under Boggs at Fort Vancouver from 1994-’97.
“Coach Boggs was a huge inspiration to me and to thousands of others,” said Ollikainen. “He used the game of football to teach character. He was a great role model and mentor on and off the field.”
One could look just at the numbers and say that Boggs career was a tale of two halves. In his first 17 years, 1967-’83, his Trappers averaged 6.2 wins per season and took home 5 league championships. In 1973 when the WIAA created the first State Football Playoffs the Trappers won the Southwest Washington League championship becoming the first team from our area to play in a playoff game. After an 8-2 1983 season in which Fort Vancouver won their 5th Southwest Washington League championship under Boggs, Fort Vancouver averaged only 3.4 wins per season over the next 17 years, 1984-2000, and never winning a league title.
But Ollikainen is quick to point out that Boggs impact on those around him go far beyond the scoreboard.
“His professional legacy is not his win/loss record; it’s the three generations of Trappers who are better people because of him,” Ollikanien added.
One of those Trappers is current Prairie Falcons head football coach Terry Hyde, who played under boggs from 1974-1977.
“He had an incredible ability to challenge you and motivate you at the same time,” said Hyde who is also a co-founder and current President of Clark County Youth Football.
“Many of my coaching philosophies I learned by being coached by him and Jon Eagle Sr.,” Hyde added.
Although technically a Chieftain, current Camas head football coach Jon Eagle grew up around the Trappers football program. With his father, Jon Sr., an assistant football coach, Eagle saw first hand the impact Boggs had on those around him.
“There are several Vancouver area coaches that positively influenced my decision to become a teacher/coach,” said Eagle. “Gary was one of them. What better compliment can you give someone other than to follow in their footsteps?”
As head coaches, Eagle, then at Evergreen, and Boggs, went head-to-head 13 times from 1988-2000. Although Eagle’s Plainsmen won 11 of those games, Boggs Trappers were no pushovers. 5 of the 11 loses were by 13 points or less, including a 7-6 loss in 1994, and a 14-10 loss in 1991.
“Gary always got his kids to play hard,” said Eagle. “Playing Fort meant you’d better bring your lunch because it was going to be a long night regardless of the records going in.”
I personally experienced this in 1996 as a Senior at Evergreen. Our week 6 game with Fort Vancouver was supposed to be our bounce back gimme win. Forgone conclusion. Done deal. Having just lost our first game of the season the week before, we were still 5-1 and ranked in the top 10 in state. The Trappers on the other hand were 2-4 having just snapped a 3 game slide the week before with a road win at Kelso, that a big win in and of itself. Long story short, Boggs’ Trapper team had no fear of us and faught tooth and nail the whole game and walked out of McKenzie Stadium with a 6-0 win. Fort finished the 1996 season on a 4 game winning streak to go 5-4, their first winning season since 1989.
“He had a great ability to make you feel invincible regardless of the situation,” recalls Hyde of his playing days with Boggs.
Brad Packer is the current Defensive Line and Strength coach at Skyview and was a Senior on Boggs’ 1996 Trapper squad.
“You would’ve never known we were a .500 team. People came out for football just to be around him. He was bigger than life,” said Packer. ”He had a boomng voice and a presence like no other. To a freshman at Fort Vancouver he was like Knute Rockne. As you grew in the program he became even more than that. You hear about kids ‘playing’ for a coach, thats exactly what we did. Nobody wanted to let him down. One thing he loved to do was get on stage and give a pep talk. He was literally the master. His best always came before a Fort/Bay game. Kids would run through walls after his pep talks.”
After graduating from Fort Vancouver, Packer played football at Eastern Washington University before returning to Clark County. He gives a lot of credit to Boggs for both preparing him for the next level, and helping him find a school to play at.
“So much of the success I had was due to him putting me in position to be successful. He understood how to get a player to play at his peak,” said Packer. “He helped tremendously when I was going through my recruiting process. My recruitment was late in the process and he continually re-assured me the right opportunity would come and it did. He never wavered in his confidence in me.”
As Boggs entered his third decade of coaching at Fort the population in Clark County had started to shift North and East away from Fort Vancouver’s Southwest, downtown location. Fielding teams with the depth of Evergreen, Kelso, Mountain View and Columbia River was hard to do, but he never let this phase him.
“He never made excuses,” said Eagle. Then, remembering what Boggs told him one year when his Plainsmen had a pretty strong team and Boggs’ Trappers were down he added, “He said to me, ‘Shoot me in the head if I ever ask another coach to take it easy on me; if I do it’s time to get out—don’t ever take it easy on the Trappers’.”
“One thing Boggs never did was lock himself into a system,” added Packer. “He always adapted to the talent he had.”
“Gary always competed with class, always did it with a sense of humor, always kept perspective,” said Eagle.
Both Hyde and Packer recall Boggs’ love for all of his players.
“He genuinely cared about his players and kids in general,” said Hyde. “Gary’s ability to know each student athlete as an individual was incredible.”
Packer echoed those sediments.
“He had the ability to connect with kids on multiple levels and it didn’t matter if you were the best player or you never saw the field,” said Packer. “He cared about his players so much more away from the field than on it.”
Packer also credits Boggs for being the reason he wanted to become a coach.
“It was because of my relationship with him that I knew I wanted to coach high school football,” said Packer. “As a coach, if I’m able to build even half the relationships he did, I’ll be very grateful. We had a special relationship and I love him deeply, respect him deeply and will miss him deeply. If he had never won a game he’d still be a legend.”
Not only does Jon Eagle credit Boggs as a reason he went into coaching, he also credits him for helping him to become a better coach years ago.
“He also said to me once after we tied for a league championship and had three Division 1 football players on our team, ‘you’ll always wonder if it was your coaching or the talent on your team.’ Of course as a young coach I thought it was the coaching. But it made me stop and think, it made me a better coach, and it made me appreciate talent when it does come your way,” Eagle added.
Coach Boggs will certainly be missed by far more people than any of us can ever imagine. But thankfully the life and football lessons he taught are still carried on so many in our community.
“The impact he had on the decades of people’s lives he influenced, will live on for decades to come because of the character values he instilled in people,” added Hyde.
Saturday April 23rd at 2pm in the Fort Vancouver High School gym there will be a memorial service for Gary Boggs to celebrate his life.
For more on this story please read a great article by Paul Valencia in The Columbian.
Coach Boggs has a Facebook Fan page.
- April 15, 2011
Heritage OL Nolan LaValley Highlight Video On Youtube
Heritage OL Nolan LaValley has a very nice highlight video on Youtube. I have embedded the videos below. Please note, this video was not produced by www.gshlfootball.com but by Nolan LaValley.
If you are aware of any other GSHL players who have highlight videos on vimeo, please let us know (send e-mail to bryan@gshlfootball.com) and we will showcase them here as well.
- April 14, 2011
Prairie WR/DB/KR Jesse Zalk Highlight Video On Youtube
Prairie WR/DB/KR Jesse Zalk has a very nice highlight video on Youtube. I have embedded the videos below. Please note, this video was not produced by www.gshlfootball.com but by Jesse Zalk. (NOTE: no audio)
If you are aware of any other GSHL players who have highlight videos on vimeo, please let us know (send e-mail to bryan@gshlfootball.com) and we will showcase them here as well.
Union’s Brandon Brody-Heim Continues His Offseason Work With Visits To USC, UCLA & Washington
Union's Brandon Brody-Heim continued to work on his LB skills at the Nike NFTC skills camp at USC before visiting UCLA's spring practice
“I’m finally back to 110%!”
As he prepares for his Senior football season, Union Titans RB/LB Brandon Bordy-Heim is excited to be back to full strength.
Brandon missed all of Spring practice last year when a freak virus infected the outer lining of his heart. If that was not enough, he suffering a slight concussion early in the 2010 season that sidelined him for a few games as well. Now, with all of the turmoil in the past, Brody-Hiem says he is excited for football to start so he can show everyone what he is capable of.
“I’m excited to be 100% making plays this year,” said Brody-Heim.
Brandon has been a busy man this offseason. He attended the Nike NFTC SPARQ Combine in January at Saint Louis School, Hawaii where he posted the Top SQPAQ Rating among the 360 athletes who attended. Then, just before Spring break, he went down to Los Angeles where he attended the Nike NFTC Position Camp at the University of Southern California.
Unlike his trip to Hawaii, Brandon mostly worked on his Linebacker skills at USC. While working with the Running Backs, he worked on half skelly 7 on 7, blitz drills and 1 on 1 drills.
“I did real well on the 7 on 7 and 1 on 1 drills,” he said. “It was different because I’m used to Defensive Back… the blitz drill I did all right in.”
Brody-Heim will make the transition from Safety to Linebacker this fall, but is not yet sure if he will play on the outside or inside.
“I felt really well about my overall performance,” he said “I felt even better that that was some of the top talent in the country and the top on the west coast.”
Now, moving from the secondary up into the front 7 is not as easy as it may seem. As a defender, you don’t know what’s coming at you, and you have to rely on reading your keys. The deference between seeing the whole field from 10+ yards back and only seeing Tackle to Tackle from 4 yards deep is a lot. However all of Brandon’s work is making the transition much smother.
Not wanting to wast a trip to Southern California, Brandon put his multi-tasking skills to good use.
Along with working out at USC, he was also invited to attend the UCLA spring practice by the Bruins coaches. While in Westwood, Brandon was able to watch practice, talk with coaches and visit the campus.
“The practice was high tempo, fun, exciting, and disciplined,” he said. “I got to see the campus which was real top of the line… lots of beautiful people!”
While Brandon has yet to receive any scholarship offers, he has been getting letters from several schools. Oregon, Oregon State and UCLA have all invited Brandon to either attend their camps, or asked him to send them film.
Yesterday, Brody-Heim, along with Skyview QB Kieran McDonagh, attended the Tom Lemming Photo Shoot at the University of Washington. Lemming annually invites the top talent from the Pacific Northwest for his shoot. While on the unofficial visit at Washington, Brandon was able to talk with several Husky football coaches who told him they were excited he was back to full strength and looked forward to following him this season.
Watch Brandon Brody-Heim’s Highlight Video
- April 12, 2011
Camas CB John Payne Highlight Video On Youtube
Camas CB John Payne has a very nice highlight video on Youtube. I have embedded the videos below. Please note, this video was not produced by www.gshlfootball.com but by John Payne. (NOTE: no audio)
If you are aware of any other GSHL players who have highlight videos on vimeo, please let us know (send e-mail to bryan@gshlfootball.com) and we will showcase them here as well.
Shriners Announce 2011 Freedom Bowl Classic Coaches – Mark Morris’ Shawn Perkins And Washougal’s Bob Jacobs
Mark Morris Monarchs head coach Shawn Perkins will coach the West all-star team in this summers Freedom Bowl Classic
With the 9th annual Shriners Freedom Bowl Classic less than 3 months away from it’s July 9th kick off at Kiggins Bowl in Vancouver, the Gateway Shrine Club of Vancouver have announced this years 2 head coaches.
Shawn Perkins of Mark Morris will coach the West all-stars, while Bob Jacobs of Washougal will coach the East all-stars.
Coach Perkins has been the head coach at Mark Morris for the past 8 seasons where his Monarchs have compiled a 44-40 record including 4 straight trips to the post season. Over the last 2 years, Mark Morris is 19-6, winning back-to-back 2A Greater St. Helens League Championships and advancing to the State Quarterfinals in 2009 and the State Semifinals last season.
“It’s a great honor and I think it shows another positive point of our Mark Morris football program,” said Perkins when asked about being selected as the West head coach. “It is going to be fun to work with the different kids and coaches form around the area.”
Last years game was the first time that players from Kelso, Mark Morris and R.A. Long were invited to play in the annual game which raises money for the Shriners Children’s Hospital in Portland.
“That brought a little more excitement for our seniors,” said Perkins when asked about the expansion to include the 3 Cowlitz County schools. “It’s great to have one more change to play and to show off our area’s talent as well.”
Perkins is not new to coaching in summer all-star games either. In 2009 Perkins was an assistant coach with the West all-stars in the Earl Barden Classic. The Earl Barden Classic is an all-state all-star game featuring the states top talent from 2A, 1A, 2B and 1B schools. Perkins’ 2009 West team defeated the East team 31-13.
Washougal Panthers head coach Bob Jacobs will coach the East all-star team in this summers Freedom Bowl Classic
Bob Jacobs of Washougal will coach the East all-stars this summer.
Jacobs, who completed his first season as the head coach at Washougal last fall, led the Panthers to a 5-4 record just missing out on the post season. Washougal had not had a winning season since the 2004 Panthers went 6-4.
“It’s a great honor and I have tremendous respect and admiration for the hard work and dedication of the Shriners and their hospitals,” said Jabobs. “They are a first class organization that has helped so many kids in need get the treatment necessary to get better.”
Prior to taking over the Washougal job Jacobs had been the head coach at Marshall High School in Portland. He led the Minutemen football team from 2002-2009 and had been an assistant there for 12 years prior to becoming the head coach.
While coaching at Marshall, which has an enrollment of about 750 students, and now at Washougal, which has an enrollment of about 690 students, fielding a competitive football team without holes has not been easy for Jacobs. That won’t be the case this summer with the East all-stars.
“I’m excited about the opportunity to coach some of the best football players in the area and be a part of the 2011 freedom bowl,” Jacobs continued. “It should be a great experience for the players, coaches and spectators.”
Besides the 2 coaches, the week’s schedule of events was also released on the games official web site, freedombowlclassic.com. The game will be on Saturday the 9th with a 7:30 p.m. kickoff. Due to the 4th of July falling on a Monday this year, each team will only have 4 days of practice, Tuesday-Friday to prepare, and the annual player/family/sponsor BBQ at Kiggins Bowl will be on Tuesday, and not Monday.
On Wednesday July 6th the players and coaches will all travel into Portland where they will visit the Shriners Children’s Hospital. All proceeds from the the Freedom Bowl Classic go to the Hospital.
If your looking for the 2011 rosters, hang in there.
Both Perkins and Jacobs now will send out letters to the Athletic Directors of the schools who will play on their team and ask the head coach to nominate up to 5 players who they feel are both good players as well as good students and good examples to represent Shriners Children’s Hospital.
After all of the nominees have been submitted, the 2 coaches will each start to build their team. Once all of the players have accepted their invite, then the roster will be released. Last years roster was released on June 7th.
East Schools - Battle Ground
- Camas
- Evergreen
- Heritage
- Hockinson
- Mountain View
- Prairie
- Stevenson
- Union
- Washougal
West Schools - Columbia River
- Fort Vancouver
- Hudson’s Bay
- Kelso
- La Center
- Mark Morris
- R.A. Long
- Ridgefield
- Skyview
- Woodland
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