Lack of teaching jobs impacts coach hires at CHS

Having five head coaches leave their positions at the end of the school year isn’t a situation Cheney High School athletic director Jim Missel has faced before. But it’s one the Blackhawks’ sports program finds itself in as 2012-2013 draws to a close, although two of those positions have now been filled.

Missel’s dilemma began at the end of the winter sports season when Lady Hawks’ basketball head coach Jennifer Harmer resigned after only two seasons. Harmer replaced former head coach Hal Sauter, who took over in 2005 to stabilize a program that saw two coaches leave in two years.

Not long aft...