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Lighthouse Christian High School
School Info
Conference: Snake River Conference North
Classification: 1A D1
Record Last Year: 6-3
Conference Record Last Year: 6-2
State Titles: 0
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Head Coach: John van Vliet
Years as Head Coach: 2
Previous Experience: 10
Assistant Coaches: Cory Holloway, Jerry Andreasen, Kevin Coggins, Bobby Post
Returning Varsity Players: 7
Returning Offensive Starters:
Evan Aardema, 5'10",155,12,WR/QB Kevin McCullough, 5'9",170,12,RB Aaron Borchardt, 5'9",165,12,RB Jordan Scott, 5'11",180,12,TE
Returning Defensive Starters:
Ben Ruhter, 6'0",165,12,DE Zane Jesser, 6'1",170,12,Safety Aaron Borchardt, 5'9",165,12,LB
Returning Players with Honors:
Jordan Scott, 1st Team All-Conference,TE Kevin McCullough, 2nd Team All-Conference,RB Aaron Borchardt, 2nd team All-Conference,LB
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Key Players Lost:
Ryker Fairbanks, 1st Team All-State and All-Conference, DL (2 fumble recover TD's last season) Scot Wolters, 2nd Team All-Conference, DL (Fairbanks and Wolters combined for 190 tackles last season) Ian Fadness, starting QB last season as well as starting LB
Incoming JV Players:
Kevin Coggins, 5'7",130,12,WR Kasey Andreasen, 5'9",160,11,RB Gabe Heath, 6'0",150,10,QB/WR Jose Orozco, 5'10",200,11,OL/DL
Offensive strengths/areas for improvement:
Strengths: Experience at the RB position, overall team speed is improving. Improvement: Lost entire offensive line to graduation last year. We will be inexperienced in that area.
Defensive strengths/areas for improvement:
Strengths: Speed and experience at the LB positions. Secondary continues to improve but lacks experience. Loss of leading tacklers on the DL is an area that needs to be addressed.
Special team Strengths:
Unique situation: We've had the 1A All-State Kicker the last two years (Kody Graham in 2007 and Patrick Knerler in 2008). That's a position we are trying to develop for 2009.
Offensive Outlook:
Continue to develope our running game and be efficient in the passing game. Developing depth on the line will be a challenge.
Defensive Outlook:
Last year in this publication we stated we wanted to improve on giving up 22 pts/game in 07. Last year we did, giving up 20/game. We hope to be consistant in that area, although the 8 man ranks continues to spread the field and score a lot of points. Hopefully we'll develope the players we need to replace the players we lost to graduation.
Conference Outlook:
The Snake River Conference will continue to be a battle to make the playoffs. With 8 conference games in a 9 game schedule there is very little margin for error or injury.
Coach's Team Outlook:
Our goal is to try to compete for a playoff spot this season. We've been close the last three years in a very difficult Snake River Conference. We have a close group of seniors which should help us in our team leadership.
Coach's Team Summary:
We will be starting our sixth season as a full varsity program after a JV/Varsity combination season in 2003. This year's juniors and seniors are the first group that started in our junior high program as 7th and 8th graders. We think the closeness of our senior group is a reflection of that.
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