Nine seasons as an NFL quarterback prepared Neil Lomax to handle the pressures and ignore the critics. So when outsiders vocalize their whys on becoming Fort Vancouver’s football coach, a high school and football program Lomax said months ago he knew nothing about but realized it’s the place for him, his why is this: Fort needs Lomax, and Lomax needs Fort. “They need me there,” Lomax said Wednesday after Vancouver Public Schools officially named the ex-Portland State standout its new head coach, “and I need that type of school to remind me why I coach football.” Lomax is Fort’s eighth coaching change since 2001 and for a program that went 0-9 last fall and hasn’t won more than two games in a season since ’07. It’s a challenge he’s eager to take, but far from his first. Seven years assisting Roosevelt High in North Portland under Christian Swain, now Columbia River’s head coach, changed how Lomax defines coaching and showed him another side of football, the 59-year-old Lake Oswego, Ore., resident said.
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Meg Wochnick, The Columbian
Wed, 03/21/2018 - 9:43pm
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