New head football coach Jared Tucker is excited about the 14 guys he will take into battle on Friday nights. The Warriors enter 2010 looking to turn around last year’s fortunes after dropping seven of their last eight games and finishing 3-7 overall. Long-time head coach Ron Hamilton stepped down after last season, and the void has been filled by Tucker, a 2010 Wartburg College graduate who is also the new K-12 physical education instructor and middle school health teacher at Walnut.
Tucker, a native of Strawberry Point, Iowa, played four years of football at Wartburg and was a defensive captain his senior year, when he finished with 19 total tackles, four tackles for loss and one sack. He will be assisted by Don Contini, who joins the school district after moving from Ohio.
…read more at Harlan Online…
http://www.harlanonline.com/articles/2010/08/27/sports/doc4c76b2afcee3b028396654.txt
Jared Tucker on the radio:
http://www.webwiseforradio.com/site_files/279/File/s-080024-1%20tucker%20.mp3
