Committee selects Weible as North Kitsap High School head football coach

With the decision left to the school board, Weible readies for a second coaching position

By Kipp Robertson • February 17, 2011 6:33 pm

Tags: North Kitsap

POULSBO — North Kitsap High School’s head baseball coach is one step away from taking charge of the football team.

Jeff Weible was recently selected by an interview committee for the football coaching position. Though Weible was the committee’s choice, the school board will make the final decision Feb. 24, North Kitsap Principal Kathy Prasch said.

Coaching football has “always been in the back of my head,” Weible said. “I see a bright future for the program.”

Weible has coached in the district for about 15 years and has more than 20 years of total coaching experience. If selected as head coach, next year will be his 23rd year as a football coach, he said.

Weible knows being head coach of two teams will be challenging and time consuming, but he said his family is behind him. He said if his wife did not support the decision, he would not have taken the job.

If selected for the second coaching position, Weible will be the 35th coach to receive more than one stipend — out of 168 total stipends.

“I always have concerns when a person is coaching multiple sports,” Prasch said. “But if he wants to work that hard I am not going to stop him.”

Prasch said Weible will be evaluated for both coaching positions and the performance as coach on one team will not affect the other.

Weible was one of “several” applicants from inside and outside the school district, Prasch said. However, the district tries to fill coaching positions with current employees she said. For those who applied from outside the district, they would not have been offered a teaching job, either.

“I feel he was best qualified from applications for both inside and outside the district,” Prasch said.

Weible originally applied for the position when Jerry Perrish retired. Steve Frease replaced Perrish, and Weible began teaching and coaching baseball.

Weible said the anticipation of a football game is something hard to match.

“Football provides much more intensity for that one game per week,” he said. “I don’t know what I would do without those Friday nights at the stadium.”