Cardinals hire basketball coach

MEDICAL LAKE - Brett Ward is the new head coach of the Medical Lake High School girls varsity basketball team. Ward, 31, has worked as an educator and assistant boys basketball and football coach for the past six years at the institution.

He also coaches middle school boys' basketball, but with the acceptance of the high school position, Ward wants to transition into coaching the girls' team for the middle school. Doing so, he said, will be beneficial because he will coach a lot of the same kids.

"That transition just makes sense, because I will get to coach the girls' team for a year while th...