EVERETT — Cascade High School has picked defensive coordinator Nick Clovsky as its new head football coach.
Clovsky succeeds Jake Huizinga who resigned in December.
A member of the Cascade staff since 2001, Clovsky brings continuity to the Bruin program.
“He has been a member of the Bruin football team for six years,” athletic director Doug Kloke said. “He brings passion for Cascade and for what he does. He will create a new culture here and move the program in a real positive way.”
Clovsky coached at Eisenhower Middle School and scouted for the Bruins from 2001-2003. He has been the team’s defensive coordinator since 2004.
He said he will keep the current staff intact and attempt to find a new defensive coordinator from among their number.
A juvenile rehabilitation administrator, Clovsky will not teach at Cascade. But he doesn’t anticipate any problems not being in the building.
“It hasn’t been a problem coaching football and track at Cascade and working with the wrestling program at Everett,” Clovsky said. “I have tremendous in-building help at Cascade.”
“That’s always a concern,” Kloke said, “but because of his job, he has been able to perform his coaching duties.”
Clovsky intends to stay with the defense Cascade employed during his time as coordinator. However, he plans to overhaul the offense, switching from the wing-T to a multiple sets with lots of motion.
“In my time at Cascade, we’ve thrown maybe one or two times a game,” Clovsky said. “We’re going to put the ball in the air more than that. We’re not going to throw 50 times a game, but we’re going to put the ball in the air.”
Clovsky said the change is due in part to his own offensive philosophy and partly because of the players he has returning.
“I’m excited about the athletes we have back at the skill positions,” Clovsky said.
Clovsky is also a weight training specialist. He has been the strength and conditioning coach for the Everett High wrestling team and helped his son, then 15, finish second in 2003 in the world power lifting championships.
Clovsky began coaching youth football as a junior in high school while playing for legendary coach Ed Troxel at Kennewick H.S.
After a stint in the military, where he was a player-coach, Clovsky played defensive back for Walla Walla Community Collrege and Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.
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