Bennett, Olson land Coach of Year awards

Grady Bennett of Glacier High School and Tim Olson of Whitefish High School have been named Coach of the Year for their respective sports by the Montana Coaches Association.

Bennett guided Glacier to a perfect season and its first Class AA football championship last month. The Wolfpack, top ranked for the entire season, whipped No. 2 Great Falls C.M. Russell in the title game 56-19 at Legends Stadium.

Glacier finished 13-0.

Olson led the Whitefish girls to the Class A golf championship in Hamilton in early October.

Whitefish was paced by junior medalist Coral Schulz. The Bulldogs finished 51 strokes ahead of the runner-up.

The complete list of Coach of the Year awards for fall sports follows.

Soccer coaches are honored in the spring.

Football

Class AA — Grady Bennett, Glacier

Class A — Rick Nordahl, Dillon

Class B — Travis Rauh, Townsend

Class C-8 — Jeff Bertelsen, Wibaux

Class C-6 — Rodney Tweet, Geraldine

Volleyball

Class AA — Jeff Carroll, Billings Senior

Class A — Jade Schmidt, Belgrade

Class B — Deb Cole, Forsyth

Class C — Carmen Harbach, Gardiner

Boys Golf

Class AA — Lance Edward, Billings West

Class A — Owen Burch, Hamilton

Girls Golf

Class AA — Lance Edward, Billings West

Class A — Tim Olson, Whitefish

Boys Cross Country

Class AA — Clint May, Bozeman

Class A — Mark Albert, Hamilton

Class B — Matt Schrowe, Red Lodge

Class C — David Solem, Culbertson

Girls Cross Country

Class AA — Clint May, Bozeman

Class A — Joanne Cleveland, Corvallis

Class B — John Sillitti, Manhattan

Class C — AJ Chlebnik, West Yellowstone