{"id":737258,"date":"2026-02-08T04:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/737258\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:20:18","slug":"east-valleys-eric-berg-named-district-football-coach-of-the-year-cwac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/737258\/","title":{"rendered":"East Valley&#8217;s Eric Berg named district football coach of the year | CWAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington State Football Coaches Association named East Valley&#8217;s Eric Berg its 2025 District 5 coach of the year in a Saturday morning release.<\/p>\n<p>Berg won the CWAC coach of the year award after leading the Red Devils to a league title and 12 straight wins before a 2A semifinal loss to No. 2 Tumwater. East Valley knocked off Lynden in the quarterfinals as part of its best season since reaching the state championship in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>CWAC offensive player of the year and Berg&#8217;s son, Jaxon, played a key role for the senior-laden Red Devils by throwing for 44 touchdowns, including a Valley record-tying eight in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimaherald.com\/sports\/prep_sports\/cwac\/east_valley\/east-valley-seniors-shine-in-win-over-ellensburg-secure-outright-cwac-title\/article_81575d5c-fc26-4944-a596-c0854a973dd4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">61-0 win over Ellensburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington State Football Coaches Association named East Valley&#8217;s Eric Berg its 2025 District 5 coach of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,62112,62111],"class_list":{"0":"post-737258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-newsletter_sportsroundup","10":"tag-yhr-reporters"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116033095295985627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}