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Larson hired as Mitchell High head football coach

3 years ago in Local Sports

Larson hired as Mitchell High head football coach

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Pat Larson has been hired as the next Head Football Coach for the Mitchell School District. Coach Larson is a Mitchell High School and Dakota State University graduate. He has been on the Mitchell Football staff for the past 19 years, coaching at every level within the program, most recently as a Varsity Assistant and Junior Varsity Head Coach. He was named the 2018-2019 Mitchell High School Assistant Coach of the Year and the 2020 11AA Assistant Football Coach of the Year. Coach Larson has also coached freshman basketball for the past 6 seasons and served 1 year as a throws coach for the Track & Field team.

“I am excited to announce the hiring of Pat Larson as the next Head Football Coach of the Mitchell Kernels. Coach Larson is a person of incredibly high character and is highly respected by both our student-athletes and his coaching colleagues. His energy and passion for all things Mitchell Kernels is infectious and will serve him well leading our football program. He places a priority on building relationships and developing young people that our school and the Mitchell community will be proud of. I look forward to working with Coach Larson to grow the Mitchell Football program and developing it as an annual contender in 11AA football.” – Cory Aadland

“I am extremely humbled and honored to be chosen as the next head coach of Kernel Football. I am excited for the opportunity to work with the coaching staff and student-athletes to grow and enhance a program that the entire community can continue to be proud of. I will work to ensure that we put a competitive team on the field every week, while using the sport of football to teach life-long lessons that will carry our student-athletes into adulthood. I want to thank all of the coaches who I’ve worked with over the past 19 years,
especially Coach Van Overschelde. They have had a big part in molding the coach that I am today.” – Pat Larson, Head Football Coach

Coach Larson replaces Kent Van Overschelde who resigned in February after coaching in the program for 20 years, the last 16 years as Head Coach, leading the Mitchell Kernels to the first state football championship in school history in 2016

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