It was time for Edmonds-Woodway baseball coach Joe Webster to take on some new challenges.
As part of the next phase of his administrative career, Webster has resigned as head baseball coach and accepted the interim assistant principal position at Meadowdale Middle School.
Webster has always said he would take his coaching career from year to year and he would know when it was time to leave when he wasn’t looking forward to the next season.
That wasn’t the case in this situation because Webster, 38, was looking forward to coaching next spring.
“This (assistant principal position) was a great opportunity for me,” said Webster who was head baseball coach for 15 years and an assistant football coach for 12 years. “It was not possible to do both (positions) and to do them well.
“It was an easy decision if I chose to move forward in my professional life. I was going to have to leave that (coaching) behind. Life goes on. I’m certainly going to miss the players and coaches.”
Webster compiled an overall record of 210-129-1 at Edmonds-Woodway, where he is in his fifth year as the dean of students. Webster won’t be leaving sports entirely as his responsibilities include athletic director duties. He will start at Meadowdale Middle School in December.
“I’ll still work with coaches, athletes and parents,” Webster said. “It’s not the same as coaching, obviously. It’ll be a much more diverse type of position.”
Webster is a 1986 graduate of Meadowdale High School. He played baseball for two years at Bellevue Community College.
Webster started his teaching career at Meadowdale Middle School where he was a history/social studies teacher for four years before moving to Edmonds-Woodway High School where he taught for six years.
“Joe has been a solid and dependable coach for a respected and successful program,” Edmonds District athletic director Terri McMahan said in a written statement. “He has been a valuable member of our staff whom I believe was a better coach each year that he coached.”
Webster and his wife, Sherri, who is the activities coordinator and a teacher at Edmonds-Woodway High School, have three children, ages 8, 4 and 10 months.
Edmonds-Woodway has had solid community support throughout his tenure, Webster said.
“I’ll miss baseball,” he added. “I’ll miss the kids primarily, the people and the competition of the game. I won’t miss the rain. I feel whoever ends up there will inherit a neat group of kids. It’s a good school to be a baseball coach.”
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