Tag Archive: coach

Bobcat Boys battle through tough season

For any team, going weeks without a victory can be tough emotionally and mentally on the players. Western Plains High School is not different. The Bobcat Boys finished the season with no wins out of the 21 games played.
However, Head Coach Jerod Horchem said his players never let the losing deter their focus on the [...]

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Lady Cats make progress during season

Western Plains High School Lady Bobcats head coach Travis Schafer didn’t have a lot of notice before he took over the program for the 2009-10 basketball season, but he said he was glad he got the opportunity.
“It was a rush,” he said. “I loved doing it.”
Schafer said he learned a lot, despite a regular season [...]

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Vogts offered football coaching contract

At Monday night’s Western Plains Unified School District 106 Board of Education meeting, held in Ransom at Western Plains High School, the board again visited the topic of the football coaching situation.
In December, the board named Todd Vogts – a Western Plains High School paraeducator, bus driver, substitute and assistant boys’ basketball coach – as [...]

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Vogts named as interim Bobcat football coach

During Monday night’s Western Plains Unified School District 106 meeting in Bazine, Kan., the board made a decision to change up the leadership for the Bobcat football program.
The board named Todd Vogts – a Western Plains High School paraeducator, bus driver, substitute and assistant boys’ basketball coach – as the interim gridiron head coach.
The position [...]

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