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Newport hires Steve Haizlip as boys basketball coach

June 11th, 2010 at Fri, 11th, 2010 at 10:22 am by Joel Willits

Newport High School has hired Steve Haizlip as the boys varsity basketball coach.
Haizlip, a 1995 Newport graduate, replaces Dave Olzendam.

“It feels good to be home,” Haizlip said in a press release.

Haizlip played under Rich Belcher at Newport before moving on to play college basketball at Central Washington University and Chabot College in Hayward, California.

Haizlip owns a lanscape design/build firm, New Leaf Creations, Inc., and lives in Bellevue with his wife Kristen (also a Newport alum) and two sons, Mile (age 3) and Cole (1).

Joel Willits I'm the sports writer at the Bellevue Reporter newspaper. On this blog you'll find extra bits and pieces to stories I've written, observations on events in our area, and a behind the scenes look at what it takes to bring a story together. I'll field questions here, and maybe even ask a few too. I'm a 2007 graduate of the journalism program at Eastern Washington University. Prior to joining the Reporter, I worked at USA Hockey Magazine and did radio work with the Colorado Springs Sky Sox AAA baseball team. When I'm not busy covering the happenings in Bellevue, I enjoy playing hockey, watching sports and spending time with my family. You can also follow me on Twitter or you can send me an email.

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