Sports Reporter
Newly hired Williston High School girls basketball coach Darryl Ladue has a simple plan for taking over the Coyotes.
"I'd like to start developing a program," he said.
Taking over a team that finished 3-19 last season, Ladue's goals going forward are wide-reaching. "We need to strengthen our program freshman through senior, and into the grade schools," Ladue said. "We need to get some stability, I feel, and some consistency in the program."
Ladue has been with the progam five seasons and has ties to area basketball going back further. He most recently coached eighth-grade girls, and he served as interim coach in 2005. He was selected from a pool of applicants last week.
The position became open when former coach Codi Austreim resigned this summer.
Ladue said he is fulfilling a dream taking over the head-coaching job.
“I love the challenge of the job,” Ladue said. “I always wanted to be a head coach, and this is a good chance. I feel like we’re a good school and we’ll be a good program.”
With basketball season not opening until late November and the first games in early December, Ladue has some time to identify players and strategies for the upcoming season.
“We need to sit down as a staff and see what direction we want to take as a ballclub,” he said.
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MBenth wrote on Sep 9, 2008 3:45 PM:
Former "tigers" player. "