Photo By: Seth GordonLongtime Newberg High School javelin coach Joe Boutin (right and below) works with Cody Danielson, who will throw for UCLA next spring after taking up the sport in his senior year in high school. Joe Boutin continues coaching young track and field athletes even though he retired as a teacher and administrator in the Newberg School District in 1991.
The best is yet to come. That’s what javelin coach Joe Boutin has been telling athletes at Newberg High School for 37 years and after mentoring 12 state champions, several high school and NCAA All-Americans, and three Olympians, who’s to argue with him? “That was something that was instilled right away,” said 2005 NHS graduate Alex Wolff, who went on to become an NCAA Division I All-American at the University of Oregon.
