Huron High School has a new head football coach
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HURON — A 1978 graduate of Milbank High School, who has spent more than 30 years coaching football in Texas, has been named as the next head coach for the Huron Tigers.
The hiring of Scott Spanton as the head football coach and a physical education teacher at the high school was approved Monday at the Huron Board of Education meeting.
“Even though I retired from public education down here a little over a year and a half ago, I still had a passion to coach if the right opportunity arose. The timing was right and that’s kind of what fell into place here,” Spanton said of his desire to become the next coach for the Tigers.
“We also have two other kids that are up in Jamestown, N.D.; they both went to the University of Jamestown (which is his alma mater). They enjoyed it so much up there, they decided to make it their home, and they’ve given no indication over the past couple of years that they’ve been up there that they are going to move closer to us. So we thought let’s look for opportunities to get closer to them.”
Spanton was a multi-sport athlete during his high school career at Milbank and was able to continue participating in football and track at what was then known as Jamestown College.
“I was able to play for legendary coach Raleigh Greeno, running track for him and played football,” Spanton said.
“I had a lot of success, especially on the football side of it, so I started to get myself a little bigger and stronger over the summers,” he said. “Our senior class was 30-5 in four years and had a national playoff appearance our sophomore year, so all those things were great. It was those great experiences that kind of propelled me towards getting into education or the coacing field based upon getting to know coach Greeno and what type of person he was. Building relationships with kids and all those things are kind of postive influences that steered me in that direction.”