With a long history of turning things around, new Husky football helmsman
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is equal to the task BY BOB SHERWIN • CONTRIBUTING WRITER
n the bucolic southeast South Dakota city of Sioux Falls, 250 miles from the nearest metropolis, crossroads have few stop signs. You can sometimes just roll past without even pausing. Back in the fall of 1998, Kalen DeBoer was rolling through life nowhere else he would rather be. He enjoyed his first gig as head coach of the sophomore team at Sioux Falls’ Washington High School. His team put together an 8-0 record. And on the weekends, he would help coach the varsity. He was comfortable and content, working a job he loved within a state where he had lived his entire life. There were no thoughts on where he would be in a year, in five years, no wild ambitions, no career choices to make, no crossroads to pause or ponder. Continued on page 6
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