Port Angeles High School football coach to take psychologist position elsewhere

Published 1:32 pm Thursday, April 29, 2010

PORT ANGELES — The revolving door that is the Port Angeles High School head football coaching position swung open again.

Dick Abrams resigned to take a school psychologist position in Monroe this week after running the Roughrider program for one season.

“I had to make a tough decision between coaching football here or being with my wife full time, as the prospects of my wife getting a job here are slim to none,” Abrams wrote in an e-mail to the Peninsula Daily News. “I know the football program will be much improved next year and I will miss being a part of it.”

Abrams was the Riders’ sixth head coach since 2000, an era that saw the Riders submit their worst decade in school history (29-67).

That ended with last season’s 0-10 campaign under Abrams, the first winless season for the Riders since 1998.