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Wednesday, June 29, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Girls soccer names new head coach
By rongi Yost
Correspondent
Jenna Pike was recently
selected as the new head
coach for girls soccer at
Sisters High School (SHS)
and is excited with her new
position.
Jenna (Sneva) Pike gradu-
ated from SHS in 2009 and
played on the girls varsity
soccer team for four years. As
a freshman and sophomore,
Jenna played back-up goalie
and then her junior and senior
years she played on defense,
at both stopper and sweeper.
Pike had hopes of play-
ing in college, either as a
walk-on in soccer or in skier-
cross. Due to numerous pre-
vious concussions, the doctor
advised her not to partici-
pate further in sports, so she
decided she would pursue
coaching.
Jenna attended Oregon
State University and gradu-
ated in 2014 with a degree
in psychology. In 2015, she
married Remington Pike, and
the couple decided to move
back to Sisters and put down
roots. The Pikes started a
livestock business, Splitting
Aces, and raise and sell beef.
They supply Sisters Saloon
with all their beef.
In addition to work-
ing alongside her husband
in their livestock business,
Jenna pursued available
coaching opportunities. In
2014, she was girls soccer
assistant coach, under former
head coach Audrey Tehan,
and last year she was the girls
JV coach.
Pike is very familiar with
the program, and the step
up to head coach should be
an easy transition. Last year,
the Outlaws graduated nine
seniors, so basically the girls
Pike will be working with are
from her JV squad.
Over the last two years as
an assistant in the program
and as the JV coach, Pike
commented that she’s learned
much that will be helpful in
her new role.
Jenna said, “It was super-
interesting to see the coaches
trying to grow the student-
athletes, and it was fasci-
nating how the girls really
picked up on that, and I could
see them mature throughout
the season.
“I’ve had quite a bit of
experience already in prob-
lem-solving with the girls,
which will be very help-
ful. There’s always mul-
tiple views, and in the last
two years I’ve been able to
see and understand where
the girls were coming from,
and also explain to them the
coaches’ viewpoint.”
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Pike has always loved
coaching, but told The
Nugget she is most com-
fortable with soccer, which
makes for a perfect fit. Two
specifics were big motivators
in Pike’s decision to accept
the position.
“First, I wanted to give
back to the program that I
was a part of for four years,”
said Pike. “And the second is
that in dealing with concus-
sion awareness, I realized that
treatment for concussions has
became a fear-based tactic. I
want to correct that assump-
tion, and let people know that
concussions are not scary.
They just need to be treated
like any other injury. I figured
soccer would be a good place
to start.”
The Lady Outlaws will be
a very young team this com-
ing season, and Pike told The
Nugget she wants to set a
foundation for the girls soc-
cer program that is respected
by the other programs in the
state, and respected by her
student-athletes and their
parents.
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wants to provide a safe and
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Jenna Pike is sisters’ new girls’
soccer coach.
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the girls want to return every
year, which will in turn grow
the roster. Pike has hopes the
girls will give it their all on
the field in practice and in
every game, and grow from
the experience.
“I’m excited to be the
head coach for the girls pro-
gram,” said Pike. “Rob (boys
head coach) and I will work
extremely hard to grow the
boys and girls soccer pro-
gram in general. I’m excited
to really pull together the var-
sity and JV to make it a better
and stronger program.”
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