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Few coaching changes at high school and middle school
By The News staff
Last Updated: July 02, 2015

This year's coaching staffs at Valley Center High School and Valley Center Middle School will look similar to last year, with a couple of notable changes.

Trent Preheim and Ty Unrau will take the reins of the high school boys' and girls' basketball programs this year.

Supplemental contracts for coaches and other club sponsors were approved by the school board June 29.

Preheim, a longtime coach and teacher in the school district, will be the girls' head coach. He takes over from Daniel Smith, who resigned last year after six seasons.

Unrau, former Douglass High School boys' coach, will be the head coach of the boys' program, taking over from John Wetig, who had four seasons.

There are no other changes among head coaches at the high school for 2015-16.

At the middle school, there will be three head coaching changes this year. Jared Ensey will take over as head coach of the boys' basketball program, Taylor Harrison will be head coach of girls' tennis and Kenny Carter will be head coach of boys' tennis. Ensey was an assistant coach, while Harrison takes over for Chris Edwards, who left the district, and Carter moves up from assistant to cover for Rob Glenn while he is on active military duty.

Head coaches and their staffs are the following:

•High school boys' basketball — Unrau with assistants Jeff Sells, Blake Peniston and Josh Lee.

•High school girls' basketball — Preheim with assistants Chad Baalman and Harrison. A third assistant has yet to be named.

•High school football — Caleb Smith with assistants Baalman, Joey Craig, who is new, Nick Barnes, Dallas Boone, Tyler Dunham, Jordan Echer, Sells and Tate Lowe, who also is new. Craig will help with the offensive line, while Lowe, a physical education teacher at the high school, will help with linebackers.

•High school volleyball — Holly Rutter and assistants Jessica Johnson, Kyrie McKee and Kaitlin Woelhoff.

•High school wrestling — Brian Shelton and assistants Benny Armstrong, Lowe and Jeremy LeDuc.

•High school track — Smith with assistants Jason Artaz, Terry Orr, Amber Russell and Woelhoff.

•High school baseball — Barnes with assistants Jordan Foland and Logan Harpool. A third assistant has yet to be named.

•High school cross country — Lonnie Thiessen with assistant Russell.

•High school boys' and girls' soccer — Steen Danielsen. Assistants have yet to be named.

•High school softball — Cory Jones with assistants Dave Friess, McKee and Danny Park.

•High school boys' and girls' tennis — Dean Schulz with assistant Matt Klusener.

•High school boys' and girls' golf — Mike McCormick with assistant Jon Graham for boys. A girls' assistant has yet to be named.

•Middle school boys' basketball — Ensey with assistants Barnes, Jacob Brittain and Bryce Westphal.

•Middle school girls' basketball — Laura Jordan with assistants Melissa Fehrenbach, Brianna Reyes and Kaitlin Woelhoff.

•Middle school football — Preheim with assistants Ensey, Friess, Jones, Ben Niggeman and Unrau.

•Middle school track — Sells with assistants Baalman, Emily Snyder, Niggeman, Lee Owens and Preheim.

•Middle school volleyball — Anne Gunden with assistants Courtney Traxson, Jason Lindstrom and Brooke Ward.

•Middle school wrestling — Jones with assistant Graham.

•Middle school cross country — Owens. An assistant will be named if the numbers warrant the position.

•Middle school boys' tennis — Carter with assistant Carlos Marquez.

•Middle school girls' tennis — Taylor with assistant Emily Snyder.