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 the interim head coach. Now the job is officially his.

Superintendent Kerry Lacock said supplemental contracts such as coaching contracts usually aren’t offered this early, but with this position, Lacock said the board felt it was prudent to get a coach into the position in order to continue to dispel any rumors that WPHS would have no football team next year.

Vogts is expected to sign the contract in the coming days.

-Note: This story first appeared at The Bobcat Nation. Also, I have written about being named the football coach before on this blog. Check the post out here.

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Todd R. Vogts, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of media at Sterling College in Kansas. Previously, he taught yearbook, newspaper, newsmagazine, and online journalism in various Kansas high schools, and he ran a weekly newspaper in rural Kansas. He continues to freelance as a professional journalist from time to time. Also, Vogts is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the Journalism Education Association (JEA), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), among others. He earned his Master Journalism Educator (MJE) certification from JEA in 2022. When he’s not teaching or writing, he runs his mobile disk jockey service and takes part in other entrepreneurial ventures. He can be reached at twitter.com/toddvogts or via his website at www.toddvogts.com.