Nevada High School hires new football coach

Nevada Daily Mail

Nevada High School's search for a new head football coach is over. Just six weeks after it was made public that former Tigers coach Wes Beachler was moving on to coach at Republic, NHS athletic director Kevin McKinley announced that his replacement has been found.

Erik Yoakam spent the past year as an assistant on head coach Bob Campbell's Fort Scott Tigers football staff and has never been a head coach before, but spent time as an assistant at St. Mary's Colgan and a defensive coordinator at Leavenworth High School.

Yoakam is a 2006 graduate from Pittsburg State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Education degree with a major in physical education and a minor in special education. He will take over the weight training teaching duties at Nevada High School in addition to his football coaching duties, starting in the 2013-14 school year.