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Show Layton Grid Coach: Lets Get Physical LAYTON Joe Wood, a former assistant coach at Utah State University and the University of California-Berke-lehas been named new head football coach at Layton High School. y, This is the first head coaching position for Wood, 35, and it comes as the realization of a dream. I got a call telling me Brad Hawkins, the former head football coach had resigned. They asked me if I was interested in the job and I said, Yes, definitely. Its been a main goal of my life to be a head coach, Wood said. Wood is a graduate of Grants Pass High School in Grants Pass, Ore. He at- tended the University of Oregon, where he played safety. He was a starter his sophomore year, but a knee injury relegated him to a backup position his final two seasons. Wood started his coaching career as a defensive coordinator for four years at Canyon High School in California. He was runing back coach at Utah and then went to State from 1978-8Arizona Western College in Yuma, Ariz. for one year as offensive coordinator. Last year Wood served as a volunteer assistant coach to Joe Kapp at before moving just down the road to Antioch High School this spring. 3, slowly for emphasis, that offensively and defensively we will be a very, very, very, physical, physical football team. But along with strength. Wood says opponents better watch out for Laytons speed next season. Ours will be very offense," up-tem- Woods said. Were going to know how and I dont mean just run the to run I mean run. This team will football be physical, and it's going to move. The type of attack employed by the Lancers will depend on the talents of individual team members, said Wood. I have plans for the offense and de- fense, but you also have to evaluate the personnel. Offensively, I like to be balanced. I like to throw, but you have to be able to run the ball to win, Wood said. But having served as a defensive coordinator. Wood knows the importance of a strong defense, something he will stress at Layton. I believe that you win football games on your offense, he said, But you win championships on defense. Defensively, its just a matter of stopping what other, people do best. Cal-Berkel- Wood has a bachelors degree from Oregon, and he received his gree in education from masters de- Im really excited aobut being here in Utah, the new coach said. Utah is just beautiful, I enjoy skiing, camping and fishing, so this is a nice place to be. season last Layton is coming off a year, but Wood isnt too worried aobut that low mark. 1- -8 Youve got a bigger problem if you have a program that has gone a few years without a winning season. Then, like anything, it becomes infectious to the point of being scary, Wood said. But any team can have a bad year. As far as his plans for the team, Its like going form the penthouse to the Wood's motto is along the same lines as outhouse and back again all in one year. Lets pop singer Olivia Newton John We are definitely better than Get Physical. I can tell you, Wood said, speakings Weve got nowhere to go but up. 8. New Layton Basketball Coach Will Use Inside Power i Stan Buchanan has been named Laytons new head basketball coach, and his philosophy on the hardwood is the same as newly appointed football coach Joe Woods is on the gridiron getting physical. While the two sports differ in the way they are played, Buchanans emphasis is the same. Buchanan says he will carry over to basketball the strength aspect of Woods football program. Not brute strength, but well definitely try to control the key. Were going to put big men in there and work the ball inside. Rebounding will also be But what if the day comes State, where he played one year when Layton doesnt have any of basketball and two years of baseball. dominating big men inside? Buchanan graduated from At Bountiful (where Buchanan -- WSC in 1972, receiving his bachworked on the coaching staff for elors degree in physical educafive years) our plan was to try to with a political science tion get the ball inside, even when minor. theres no dominating inside From college, he accepted a job player on the team. with the Browning Arms Co., You just cant sit around and where he worked for six years beo all night. fore shoot going into coaching. Youve got to get the ball inside, He served as basketball coach coach said. the 37 year-ol- d T.H. Bell Junior High in 1978, at Buchanan attended Ogden moved to Millcreek Junior on then to went two and play High baseball and at basketball of High in Bountiful for three years. years Utah State University. During his last two years at He then transferred to Weber Buchanan was also a mem 18-t- 20-foot- Mill-cree- k, ber of the Bountiul High School coaching staff. Ultimately, I would like to make the Layton High School He then moved up to the high basketball ticket a premium. I want to make it tough to get into school level, working as the juthe gym, he said. nior varsity coach and an assisThe potential is there to get tant varsity coach the past three people involved in the program, years. and once you do, ds amazing In those five years at Bountiful what somehting like this can do High, the Braves earned a State for a community. Thats my goal to pack the gym. championship and three reFor his players, dedication will gion titles. Buchanan was also an -- assistant baseball coach at the be the key, according to Buchanschool when the team won a state an. title. I look at education as a priviBuchanan has several goals in lege, not a right. Our athletes are mind fo the Lancers basketball going to have to accept discipline and commitment," Buchanan squad, and one in particular involves the community. said, v ' 4-- A 3-- A Im a believer in the student first, and the athlete second. I come from a program where if you want to play basketball youve go to be a student first. Buchanan said he was grateful for the opportunity of coaching at Layton. Theres a tremendous potential there, he said. I think its one of the top communities in Utah, and there is tremendous support from both the administration and the community. And of course, its a school, and in Utah thats the pinnacle for high school coaches. 4-- A Chukars Released: 85 Hunt Denied GARY HATCH Review Sports Editor The Division of Wildlife Resources on Monday released the first 200 of an eventual 1,400 chukar partridges scheduled to be loosed in Davis County before the end of September. The birds, taken as hatchlings y in and raised by private citizens in Davis County, were released in the Farmington Canyon area. But eager hunters should keep their guns sleeved. Davis County will be closed to chukar hunting this year in an attempt to allow the new chukar population to gain a better foothold in the area. Anyone seeing someone taking chukars this year should report it mid-Ma- Canyon-S- hepherd immediately, conservation officer Alan Hash said. - We released a lot of chukars last year and many of those were shot in the Fruit Heights area, Hash added. Last year taking chukars was legal, because we couldnt get the season closed. But this year we got it in the proclamation and the season is closed, Hash said. Chukars are not native to Utah 'or even North America, but were brought to the U.S. in the early 1890s from their natural home in the dry regions of Northern Europe and Asia. Several years ago Utahs chukar population was very healthy. As an example, Antelope Island was nearly overrun with the birds. winters with deep snow cold tem- ty- - peratures decimated the once thriving population. Chukars do best in semi-ari- d climes with mild winters. Hash said he expects about a 50 percent survival rate for the birds the first winter, but if the winter is as harsh as the last few the survival rate could be as low as 10 percent In addition to the 200 birds released Monday, all banded for later identification, the DWR will release another 1200 birds brought up from the Divisions Springville game farm. In addition to Davis County, the Division will release chukars into the Willard hot springs area of Box Elder county and the area of Morgan Coun ho Davis County volunteers are raising an additional 200 birds to be released in Morgan County. Hash said the wildlife department will not reveal the exact lo- cations they are releasing the chukars because the birds will not generally travel more than a mile from their point of release. Hash said. They will generally travel a mile or so and they will often cross a canyon, but they will not often cross the mountain from one canyon to another," Hash said. The birds will survive handily and almost exclusively on grasshoppers this time of year. They will also eat cheat grass and various wild seeds. Photo by Robert Regan Photo by Robert Regan officer Alan Hash prompts a reluctant chu- kar partridge to fly off into the wild after the bird had en- CONSERVATION 1 v joyed about two months of posh city living. Laytons Troy Justensen looks on. chukars released Monday by conserva tion officer Alan Hash take their maiden flight into the wild. THREE OF THE 200 t |
