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NHS hires Woginrich for NHS girls basketball post |
By B. Scott
Anderson, Newberg Graphic reporter
E-mail Scott at
banderson@eaglenewspapers.com
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Tamie
Woginrich has been hired to take over for Marianne Funderhide as the
Newberg High School girls basketball coach.
Woginrich, who accepted the job June 7, moved into the Newberg area
three years ago from the Eugene area, where she served as an
assistant coach and junior varsity coach for Marist, a private
Catholic high school, in two different stints. She was the assistant
head coach and junior varsity coach from 1992-95 and again from
1997-2000. In 1995-96, she was the freshman girls coach at Klamath
Union and in 1996-97, she was the junior varsity head coach and
assistant head coach at Klamath Union.
Since her move to Newberg, NHS athletic director Tim Burke said,
Woginrich has been coaching basketball at the middle school level in
the Chehalem Park and Recreation District.
“So she’s familiar with community and the needs of the middle
school level,” Burke said.
Woginrich, who has three daughters, said she’s wanted to get back
into coaching at the high school level for years, but it was just a
matter of finding the right opportunity.
“I was thrilled,” she said when she was offered the job. “I’m
excited to get the opportunity to work with the girls. They’re a
great bunch of young ladies. I’m exited to get going.”
Woginrich takes over the position from Marianne Funderhide, who
served as coach of the program since the 1998-99 season. The Tigers
made it to the second round of the Class 4A state tournament two
years ago before they suffered through a tumultuous season this year
where they finished with an overall record of 5-19. Newberg won its
first Pacific Conference game of the season last year, a 54-42 win
against McMinnville, but then lost its remaining 14 games to finish
1-14 in conference play.
From last season’s team, Newberg graduated several players,
including senior Sara Zahler, the team’s leading scorer the last two
seasons. Zahler, who played on the varsity team her entire career at
Newberg, earned a scholarship to play basketball at Western Oregon
University, a Division II school in Monmouth.
Burke, said there were seven applicants for the job, but the reason
Woginrich was selected as the coach of the Tigers is simple.
“We were looking for someone to take over where (Funderhide) left
off,” he said. “She has very similar qualities as (Funderhide) and
she just has a passion for basketball, a passion for the kids and
came in with a pretty good vision of what needed to be done to keep
it going and then improve it.”
While the program was in limbo without a coach after Funderhide
resigned in April, players in the program didn’t miss a step.
Funderhide saw to it that the program had enough money left in its
fund-raising account to sign up teams for summer basketball.
Funderhide also set up the team with scheduled tournaments this
summer.
“She left us in pretty good shape,” Burke said.
Newberg’s summer team is playing in the PR-3R summer league and is
being coached by several volunteer parents until Woginrich takes
over.
With a new head coach in place, the status of the return of Jeff
Steindorf, the junior varsity coach last season, and Jennica Smith,
the freshman coach last season, is still up in the air. Steindorf, a
part-time teacher at Joanne Austin Elementary, is seeking a
full-time teaching position. Burke, however, said the proverbial
door remains open for both Smith and Steindorf to return to the
program.
“I tell this to all of the assistants that any time the current
head coach that leaves or is fired or whatever, that their jobs are
going to be open because they have to work under the head coach’s
system,” he said. “If they can’t be loyal and if it’s not a good fit
for the new head coach, that’s not going to work. That new head
coach has got to have people surrounding him or her who want to be
there and have the same philosophies.” |
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From
June 16, 2007, Newberg Graphic
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