From Bellevue High School’s Head Football Coach, Butch Goncharoff

Welcome to our family. Whether you are a first year player or sixth year player, a youth player or a high school player you are part of the Bellevue Football family. The roots of our program have been in place long before I took over as head coach. The program has always been and will be a prevalent part of the West Bellevue community. Everybody involved is an important member to our program.

Before I became the head coach at BHS I spent several years coaching in the junior program. I understand the passion of our youth program. The passion and pride at the junior level is equal to that of our high school teams. I would not want it any other way. We want football to matter at all levels. We want to support the junior program and have the junior program support the high school.

With your sons involvement in the football program he is on the path of creating some great work habits, and creating some lifelong friends and memories. We ask a lot from the kids involved in our program; we ask them to participate and give 100% to the task on hand. Not only on the field but also in the weight room and most important in the classroom. The habits your son is learning at the junior level will help him with the transition to the high school program on to college and throughout life. Or players learn skills for life before they ever play a game on a Friday night.

I would love to make a promise that every player who puts in the time and effort will get to play for State Championships. Although I cannot guarantee state championships, I can say the players that go through our programs are prepared with a set of principals and strong understanding of a work ethic. They not only get better grades in high school, but are also better prepared to enter college.

It starts here at the youth level. We have the best leadership we have ever had with Greg Pardee running the system.  Greg and I have worked hand in hand to make sure there is as much cohesion as possible from our youth summer camps, to Wolverine Night in August and the interaction between the high school coaches and the youth coaches. We want all the kids in the youth program to know the principals of playing football in Bellevue; the fundamentals of tackling and blocking at the younger ages up through the middle school kids who will know the basic understanding of football terminology.

It is very easy to draw a direct path from the success at the youth level to our success at the high school. The junior program has had every team make the playoffs for the last two years and even before that have continued to lead the leagues in wins. We at the high school are very fortunate to have such a strong program in place.

We are family and we are all in this together. If you have not please come watch our high school players; they all are players that were one time in our youth program.  Play hard, learn and have fun. I look forward to seeing as many of your games as possible this year, and I look forward to seeing you in the high school program in the upcoming years.

Butch Goncharoff

Head Coach Bellevue Football