When Coupeville and Port Townsend recreate this scene in Oct., the RedHawks will be coached by a former CHS assistant. (John Fisken photo)
Alex Heilig will be coaching football at Coupeville High School this coming season.
But just for one game.
The former Wolf assistant coach, who interviewed for the CHS head coach job that was filled by Jon Atkins, has been hired as the new head football coach at Port Townsend.
This news comes from Michael Carman at the Peninsula Daily News, who broke the hiring this afternoon.
Heilig, who was a teacher at CMS and an assistant coach under Tony Maggio, spent 2014 as an assistant at South Whidbey, then was head coach at Granite Falls in 2015.
The 2A Tigers went 1-9 last season.
Now, he’ll take over a program which has won back-to-back 1A Olympic League titles, replacing Nick Snyder, who resigned to spend more time with his family.
The RedHawks went 10-1 last season, bringing Snyder’s record at PTHS to 43-19.
Heilig, who is married to former Wolf three-sport legend Ashley Ellsworth-Bagby, inherits a program which lost a chunk of starters to graduation, but is still primed to be a power in an expanded league.
The four Olympic League schools (Coupeville, Port Townsend, Chimacum and Klahowya) are joining with the Nisqually League (Cascade Christian, Charles Wright, Bellevue Christian and Vashon Island) for football for the next two years.
Port Townsend travels to Coupeville this season, arriving Oct. 7, which is Homecoming for the Wolves.
Now, it’ll be two homecomings in one.
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Clarify “Alex Heilig will be coaching football at Coupeville High School this coming season. But just for one game.
He was a former CHS assistant. He was hired at PTHS. His first game against his former school was on Coupeville’s field. It’s spelled out fairly concisely in the story. Or, at least I thought so.