Wednesday, August 23, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Carl Click will take the reins as girls tennis coach Amazon
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
Carl Click has been hired
as the new head coach for the
girls tennis program at Sisters
High School. Click has a
wealth of coaching experi-
ence under his belt and will
bring that knowledge to the
girls tennis program.
He has been coaching
youth sports since he was in
high school and specifically
coached both high school
girls basketball and girls ten-
nis the past several years.
Click coached little league
baseball, soccer, and youth
baseball from the time his two
kids, Jack (29) and Sarah (27)
started to play up until they
started high school. Once his
kids reached high school, he
took a break so he could be a
spectator and enjoy watching
his kids compete.
Many recognize Carl as a
former news reporter/anchor
for KGW and KATU. He
was with KGW for 22 years,
from 1983 to 2005, and then
worked for KATU from 2005
to 2014.
After his kids graduated
high school, Click started
coaching again. He’d work
the early morning newscast
from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m.,
run home and grab a quick
nap and then coach in the
afternoon. He accepted a
position as the girls assis-
tant tennis coach at Skyview
High School in Vancouver,
Washington, and coached
from the spring of 2008
through the 2015 season. In
addition to coaching tennis,
he was also the head girls
basketball coach at Kingsway
Christian for two years (2010
and 2011). In 2012, Click
was the head girls basketball
coach at Ridgeview High
School, also in the Vancouver
area.
From 2013-2017, Carl
was the head girls basket-
ball coach at Columbia River
High School, and was the
girls head tennis coach at
Columbia River High School
2016 and 2017.
The tennis program at
Columbia River was very
successful. Click had a huge
turnout for the sport, with
more than 40 girls in the pro-
gram both seasons. The team
won two league champion-
ships, the first in the Greater
St. Helens 3A league, a step
up in their league, and the sec-
ond in the Greater St. Helens
2A league. In Washington,
schools are given the choice
to play up, and Columbia
River had the athletes that
could compete up when they
won the 3A title.
In July, the Clicks moved
permanently from Vancouver,
Washington, to Black Butte
Ranch (BBR). The Clicks
have had a family home at
BBR since 1990 and Carl
and his wife, Jil, have owned
the home since 2011. Since
then, they’ve come to Central
Oregon as often as they could.
Their goal was to retire here,
and this past spring, they bit
the bullet and made their goal
a reality.
“My wife and I have
wanted to be here for a long,
long time,” said Click. “I
just had to have the courage
to pull the trigger. We both
ended our obligations, and
sold our house to get here.”
Carl contacted Athletic
Director Gary Thorson and
asked if he needed any help
with game management.
According to Click, a game
manager is basically an on-
site manager for an event
or game; his work includes
making sure procedures are
followed, have ticket-takers
in place, as well as score-
clock operators, and they also
mange game officials.
“I’ve had game manage-
ment experience and I offered
my services to Gary,” said
Click. “Gary looked at my
resume and told me they had
an opening for a girls ten-
nis coach, and asked if I’d
be interested in applying.
After talking with my wife, I
decided to apply.”
Click was officially hired
as the new head coach for
the girls tennis program in
mid-July. Carl hopes to meet
his tennis players this fall,
and told The Nugget he will
attend and support them in
any other sports they are
involved in.
Carl hopes to entice play-
ers who are involved in soc-
cer and basketball to give ten-
nis a try in the spring, if they
aren’t involved in another
spring sport.
“I’ve been involved in
making really good tennis
players out of kids who’ve
never played tennis until
they got to high school,”
said Click. “Soccer players
have really good footwork
and understand angles, and
when you put a racket in their
hands, their athleticism helps
them become a successful
tennis player. The same goes
for basketball and volley-
ball players. The athleticism
from these different sports all
translates to tennis.”
Click loves to coach and
is excited about this new
adventure and stage in his
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PHOTO BY RONGI YOST
Carl Click will take the court with
the Outlaws tennis program.
life. He told The Nugget he’s
not going anywhere. His first
goal as head coach is to cre-
ate interest in tennis and get
lots of girls to turn out and
become part of the program.
“High school tennis is
for all abilities,” said Click.
“We want to coach state-
caliber players to success,
as well as coach new players
how to play the game, and
to improve. Tennis should
always be fun, and it’s fun
to be successful. To have the
opportunity to work with the
high school kids here is a real
blessing.”
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