Dube eager to take Colts' baseball reins.Byline: Chris Hansen <noinclude></noinclude> Christopher Edward Hansen (born March 26, 1959) is an American television journalist best known for his work on the Dateline NBC television segment To Catch a Predator. The Register-Guard Phil PHIL Philosophy Phil Philippine PHIL Philippians PHIL Philadelphia, PA, USA PHIL Public Health Image Library (US CDC) Dube spent nearly a decade building the Marist High School baseball team into a yearly championship contender. He will now try to deliver that same level of consistency at Thurston. Dube, 38, was hired earlier this summer as the Colts' new head baseball coach, leaving the Spartans after nine seasons. "I pretty much did as much as a person could do over at Marist and figured it was time to finish up there and move somewhere different," Dube said. "Thurston has always had great kids and in my years of coaching, I always thought they had great athletes at this school." Dube, in his first high school head coaching job, led the Spartans to a 86-44 record in the Sky-Em League in his nine years. However, since 2002, when Dube guided Marist into the postseason for the first time in 18 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Spartans have gone 65-17 in league. He has taken Marist to the playoffs in each of the past six seasons. The Spartans reached the semifinals in 2006, and last spring they advanced to the Class 4A quarterfinals. Though the Colts play in Class 5A, Dube said moving up a classification was a nonfactor in his decision to leave Marist. "You know, I didn't think about it that way at all," Dube said. "The Sky-Em League has been a great league with great coaches. Steve Smith at Pleasant Hill has been a mentor Mentor, in Greek mythology Mentor (mĕn`tər, –tôr'), in Greek mythology, friend of Odysseus and tutor of Telemachus. to me, a mentor and a friend. I think both of us are tired of beating each other up. That was a great league and a great proving ground, a place to get my feet wet. I enjoyed it. That whole 4A level was great, so I wasn't thinking of moving up. "I don't think there's a huge talent difference. The big difference is there is closer to 1,000 kids for some of the schools, so you have a bigger opportunity to get more kids involved and have a little bit better talent and a deeper roster." Dube admitted part of his decision to leave Marist - a private school - was to get into the public school system and the Public Employees Retirement System. He will be a full-time teacher at Thurston. "My wife and I, we looked at the possibility of moving out of the area, but we decided we were going to stick around here and Thurston was No. 1 on my list and it just so happened they had an opening," Dube said. "All the pieces just fell into place. They've got a great administration here, and they're trying to turn this baseball program around. It was the perfect time to come on over." Dube replaced Mike Michel Michel named after Gaston Michel, a French surgeon (1875-1937). Michel clip metal skin sutures in various sizes from 8 to 16 mm long. Each clip is a 2 mm wide band of metal with a downturned sharp prong at each end. , who coached the Colts last season to an 8-7 record. Michel has taken over as athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic at Thurston for Scott Johnson Scott Johnson may refer to:
Though he was still busy wrapping up the summer baseball season with his former players from Marist, Dube was also able to watch every one of his Thurston players who were involved in summer leagues and catch a glimpse Verb 1. catch a glimpse - see something for a brief time catch sight, get a look see - perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight; "You have to be a good observer to see all the details"; "Can you see the bird in that tree?"; "He is blind--he of what the future holds. "I haven't had a chance to do much," Dube said. "I was hired pretty late, and we had already started our summer season at Marist. We co-hosted the state tournament with Pleasant Hill. But I did have the opportunity to come over and watch the guys from Thurston in the D-1, D-2 teams, and then I watched the guys playing on the Legion legion, large unit of the Roman army. It came into prominence c.400 B.C. It originally consisted of 3,000 to 4,000 men drawn into eight ranks: the first six ranks, called hoplites, were heavily armed, while the last two, called velites, were only lightly armed. team. I've had the opportunity to meet most of the boys who are going to be playing baseball, and I'm really excited to work with them. They seemed like fine, young gentlemen, eager and ready to get going, and that excites me because so am I." The Colts will return four sophomores and a one junior from 2007 who earned all-league honors and helped the Colts finish tied for third place in the Midwestern League. "There are a lot of talented players coming back next year," Dube said. "If everything goes right, we should have a very nice year." SPORTS Brian Davies Brian Davies can stand for:
CAPTION(S): Phil Dube left a successful baseball program he built at Marist High School in order to take over as Thurston High School's head coach. |
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