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Football
9th Grade
 
8th Grade
 
Mr. Vankat 
 
Mr. E. Scheidt
 
   

Coach Scheidt has coached football and basketball at Columbia since its opening in 2003.  Mr. Scheidt’s is an alumni of Fife High School where he played basketball for legendary coach  John McCrossin. Anyone interested in seeing him in his prime can check out the large poster hanging in Mr. Dodge’s room.    

     
 
Mr. McClure
 
 
     
 
Girls Volleyball
Varsity
Junior Varsity
Ms. Shula
Ms. Loomis
 
 
This is 7th year coaching vball:  high school asst. coach in Cincinnati, OH.  Also coached 7th/8th grade. Favorite age group has been 7th and 8th graders…. Teaching fundamentals and watching the improvement! Continue to play sand vball in a league at Alki Beach. My experience was as a setter/defensive specialist.  Played 4 years of varsity fastpitch in high school. Went to Bowling Green State University 7th year of teaching…..   been teaching Art @ FHS for 5 years now!?!?!??!!  Time goes so fast!!!!!!!! This is my 4th year coaching tennis at FHS.
 
Girls Cross Country
Ms Swenson
 
 
     
Girls Basketball
Varsity
Junior Varsity
Mr Gause
Mrs. Thomas
 

Scot Gause has coached basketball for the past 5 years at the high school level in Denver, CO.  He recently moved back to his hometown of Tacoma, Wa this past summer.  As a new teacher at Columbia he is excited to coach the 9th grade boys basketball team.

Coach Gause attended and played basketball at Bellarmine High School.  He went on to play basketball at Regis University (Denver, CO).    

 
 
Wrestling
Varsity 
Junior Varsity
Mr. Vankat 
Mr. J. Scheidt
   
 
Boys Basketball
Varsity Boys  
Junior Varsity Boys
Mr Gause
Mr. E. Scheidt
 

Scot Gause has coached basketball for the past 5 years at the high school level in Denver, CO.  He recently moved back to his hometown of Tacoma, Wa this past summer.  As a new teacher at Columbia he is excited to coach the 9th grade boys basketball team.

Coach Gause attended and played basketball at Bellarmine High School.  He went on to play basketball at Regis University (Denver, CO).    

 

Coach Scheidt has coached football and basketball at Columbia since its opening in 2003.  Mr. Scheidt’s is an alumni of Fife High School where he played basketball for legendary coach  John McCrossin. Anyone interested in seeing him in his prime can check out the large poster hanging in Mr. Dodge’s room.    

Girls Soccer
Varsity Girls  
Junior Varsity Girls
Ms. Shimoda    
Mr. Jordan

    Teri Shimoda previously taught at Surprise Lake Middle School in the Fife School District for 10 years. She has been a leader in establishing the girl's soccer program in the district. She not only has been the head coach for FHS all those years but also led the teams at Columbia Junior High School and SLMS. 

    Coach Shimoda attended and played soccer at Kennedy High School , a consistent soccer power house, then and now, in the King Division of the Seamount League. She continued playing soccer while attending Pacific Lutheran University, and was a member of the 1991 National Championship Team.

     Joe Jordan has been active in the girls soccer program at FHS, CJHS and SLMS for the past several years. He is also active with club soccer programs in Pierce and King Counties.  Coach Jordan also assists the varsity team @ FHS and is head coach for the junior varsity.

     
Girls Fastpitch
Varsity Girls  
Junior Varsity Girls
 
Mr. Moseley
 
Mrs. Thomas
 

Mr. Moseley is in his second season as Varsity coach.  He's coached the JV here for two years and prior to that for four years at Charles Wright Academy. He has previously coached MS soccer.

We asked him how come an Englishman is coaching an American sport he's never played? Well ... it's a long story ...

   
Boys Baseball
Varsity Boys  
Junior Varsity Boys
   
Mr. Cooper
 
Mr Clergy
 
     
Track and Field
   
Mrs. Choate-Deeds
 
Ms. Trippel
 

Caryn Choate-Deeds begins her third year coaching track and field here at Columbia.  Choate-Deeds ran track, cross country, soccer and basketball in high school.  She attended the University of Idaho and is a former three school record holder in the 100, 200, and relays.  After her competitive career she coached sprinters at the University of Idaho.  She then became head men’s and women’s cross country and track coach at Gonzaga University.   After three seasons, she moved to Bozeman, MT where she worked with the multi-event athletes and jumpers at Montana State University.   In 1996, she began coaching at Eastern Washington University where she was in charge of cross country, sprints, middle distance, and distance runners.  This is Mrs. Choate-Deeds’ third year teaching language arts as well.

   
     
 
Mr. Jordan
 
Mr. Stevens
   
     Joe Jordan has been active in the girls soccer program at FHS, CJHS and SLMS for the past several years. He is also active with club soccer programs in Pierce and King Counties.  Coach Jordan also assists the varsity team @ FHS and is head coach for the junior varsity.