The spring is annually a time when the most coaching moves are made statewide.

This year’s turnover rate was considerably less overall, but there were still a few major moves around the county.

One of them is seeing a coach return to a school – for the third time – and another local graduate returning closer to home.

Cashion

Kingfisher High School graduate Steven Wilson has been hired as Cashion’s first full-time head wrestling coach.

Wilson has spent the last six years as the head football and assistant wrestling coach at Geary.

He was approved at Cashion’s April regular meeting.

Cashion’s youth wrestling program has been growing in recent years and the Wildcats have fielded individual wrestlers sporadically, but not a full team.

“We are excited about the direction of our wrestling program with Coach Wilson leading it,” said Cashion Superintendent Sammy Jackson.

Wilson will also assist on the football coaching staff.

Dover

Brett Pitts was approved in May as Dover’s new high school and junior high girls basketball coach.

He’ll also be the school’s athletic director.

Pitts previously coached girls at Dover in the 2010-11 season. He returned to coach boys in 2013-14 as the Longhorns reached the area consolation finals, which is one game from the state tournament.

It was the deepest Dover’s boys have been since reaching state in 1993.

Byron Randle was an assistant with Pitts on that 2014 team.

Randle had been Dover’s girls coach the last six years.

Pitts was girls coach at Waynoka last season.

Hennessey

Hennessey has found its new girls basketball coach.

The district’s board of education on Monday approved hiring Aly Seng.

Seng succeeds Haylie (Simunek) Wilczek, who recently accepted the position as girls coach at Pioneer-Pleasant Vale.

Wilczek was the head coach at Hennessey for two seasons and an assistant prior to that.

Seng was a multi-sport standout at Enid High School and has served as an assistant girls coach at Chisholm for multiple seasons.

Okarche

Okarche didn’t go far to find its new baseball coach.

Ryan Beaman was approved as the new head coach in May.

Beaman was an assistant under Mark Framel. Framel recently returned to Deer Creek.

Beaman is married to the former Lindsey Roby, who was a standout pitcher at Cashion High School who went on to pitch for Cowley County Community College and later the University of Arkansas.

There was an item on Okarche’s agenda at Monday’s meeting to hire a new assistant, but Superintendent Rob Friesen said they weren’t yet ready to make a hire.