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FOOTBALL: Shepard joins Enumclaw staff

July 22nd, 2010 at Thu, 22nd, 2010 at 8:23 pm by Erick Walker

Football coach Mike Shepard, who was let go by Kentlake in December, is back in the game once again.
Shepard, who spent four years at the helm of the Kentlake program, recently joined the football coaching staff at Enumclaw High, where he will oversee the defensive line and assist with the offensive line.
“In the last couple weeks (during passing camps), I have learned that there are a lot of ways to do the job,” Shepard said. “If there’s a silver lining to the cloud, it’s that I am reinvigorated.”
Shepard posted a 14-26 record at Kentlake. The Falcons missed the postseason by a single win in each of the last two seasons. While Shepard will assist at Enumclaw, he will continue to teach AP History, AP Government, and AP Psychology at Kentlake.
“The nice thing is, it’s a short commute,” Shepard noted. “I am enjoying myself a great deal.”

Erick Walker is the sports writer for the Kent Reporter newspaper. His specific prep sports coverage focuses on Kent-Meridian, Kentridge, Kentlake, Kentwood, Tahoma, Auburn and Auburn Riverside. Walker has been a sports reporter since 1994. Before coming to the Reporter Newspapers, he worked seven years for the King County Journal, where he covered prep football, wrestling and fastpitch along with the Tacoma Rainiers and Seattle Mariners. Walker has been covering sports in the Kent Valley since 2000. Outside of the newspaper industry, Walker is married (Janinne) and has two children (Asher, 10, and Nolan, 4).

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