High School Sports

Through coaching and commitment, new Lincoln of Tacoma football coach Masaki Matsumoto hopes to instill certain attributes in his student athletes that will make them successful going forward in life. “Discipline, accountability, love,” Matsumoto said. “Once you do that, success and wins on the field are just a by-product. We’ve won by changing kids’ hearts.”

Matsumoto takes over for the departed Jon Kitna, who left Lincoln – his alma mater – after three seasons to take a job in Texas.

Former Seahawks quarterback Jon Kitna announced Wednesday morning that he is resigning as head football coach at Lincoln in Tacoma to pursue a similar position at a high school in Texas, just south of Dallas. Lincoln principal Pat Erwin said Kitna, a Lincoln graduate who went on to quarterback Central Washington University to the 1995 national…

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