Each week during the high school football season, the Seattle Seahawks and the Washington State Football Coaches Association select two high school football coaches as their Coach of the Week winners. Each recipient receives a $500 donation to the school’s football program and will be honored at a Seahawks Home Game with their fellow recipients.

At the end of the year, all 20 coaches will come to a Seahawks home game, where they will be recognized with a pregame brunch. One coach will be named Coach of the Year, and they will receive an additional $2,000 towards their football program.

The Coach of the Year then becomes a finalist for the NFC Don Shula NFL High School Coach of the Year Award.

Read more about this year’s winners below or click here to visit the team’s COTW page.

2025 Seattle Seahawks Coach of the Week Award WinnersWeek 3Clark Pauls, Willpinit High School

Clark Pauls is a proud graduate of Whitworth colllege in 2007 and has been coaching football at Wellpinit for 17 years including making it to state in back to back years as recent as 2022-23. Coach Pauls is also the district athletic director for Wellpinit and a clear community leader. Wellpinit is off to a great start this season with a 2-0 start including a thriller of a win last week vs a 2B Bridgeport team 68-62. Wellpinit is averaging 65 points per game this season and look to continue their success under coach Pauls direction.

Eric Berg – East Valley High School

Eric Berg is in his 10th season as the head coach of East Valley (Yakima) and his 23rd season overall coaching high school football. East Valley is off to an incredble 3-0 start outscoring opponents 114-16 adding a big upset win over Prosser 13-7. “Big shoutout to coach Berg, we’re proud of you, Coach!” via the East Valley School District page. Safe to say the East Valley community is all behind this football program and coach Bergs leadership!

Week 2Keith Terry – Mount Tahoma High School

Head Coach Keith Terry has Mount Tahoma off to a great start this season including a dominate upset on the road vs Camas 49-22. Coach Terry graduated from Mount Tahoma in 2006 and has been coaching for over 15 years including becoming the Mount Tahoma head coach in 2022. Coach Terry just married his best friend this year, Amber, who is very supportive of the program! Since taking over the Mount Tahoma has advanced to the state quarter finals back to back years for the first time in over 40 years. “It has truly been a honor and privilege to lead the young man in the community where I grow up. We want to create an environment where we teach these young men to be uncommon in their approach to life. Being uncommon for us is doing the right thing all the time and finding ways to stay focused in the mist of adversity.” Said Coach Terry

Monte Kohler – O’Dea High School

Head Coach Monte Kohler is a house hold name in the state of Washington when it comes to leading young men and coaching high school football. Coach Kohler has been coaching since 1985 at O’Dea High School and has won 5 state championships including winning it all for 3A last season. Monte was inducted into O’Dea High School’s Hall of Fame in 1992, Wall of Honor in 2000, the Washington State Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2010, and the Pacific Northwest Hall of Fame in 2014. Most recently Monte passed an all time record becoming the winningest coach in Washington State high school football history with his 395th win! Coach Kohler attributes this remarkable milestone to the process and all the coaches and players that have made it all possible over the decades. Monte loves football, but enjoys spending time with his family even more. We thank Coach Kohler for all he has done for the football community and more in the State of Washington.

Week 1Dave Hajek – Washougal High School

Coach Dave Hajek has been a football and track & field coach impacting student-athletes lives for more than 3 decades including 20 years as the head football coach and 30 years as the head track & field coach at Washougal High School. Coach Hajek also graduated from Washougal in 1987 where he then attended and walked on the football team at Eastern Washington University. Washougal, a small but mighty program had a dominate kickoff win for the season against a bigger 3A Mountain View team 56-33.

Coach Hajek had this to say in response to his Coach of the Week honors “I am honored that I would be selected for this award and truly feel blessed that anyone recognizes the hard work that the coaches and the athletes have done here at Washougal High School. I will accept this honor for the Kids and the other coaches I have the pleasure to work with. Thank you for this honor and GO Hawks!”

Jeff Logan – Graham-Kapowsin High School

Jeff Logan has been with the GK program for over 12 years now. He enters his 4th season as the head coach after taking over for legendary head coach Eric Kurle. GK kicked off the year with an incredible 40-38 thriller of a win against reigning 3A state champions O’Dea. Coach Logan grew up in Graham and played for GK, he then went on to play at Montana Western in college where his love of the game continued. He has an amazing wife Abby who is very supportive of the program and has his dad and brother on the coaching staff as well, so it is safe to say they are a football family!

“Beating Odea was a huge steppingstone for our young athletes in their maturation process. They were forced into a situation that made them grow up as young men, I am extremely proud of their resiliency and toughness. Our team motto is E.A.T. and I thought out effort, attitude and toughness were on full display last Friday night. Our offense tallied 375 total yards and scored 40 points while our defense was tasked with stopping a physical football team that runs the ball well. They created two turnovers when it mattered most to help propel us to a victory.” Said coach Logan!

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