Ex-Lutes player new Lincoln football head coach

A familiar name has been hired as interim head football coach at Lincoln High School. Ben Cochrane, a running back on the 1999 NCAA Division III national champion Pacific Lutheran University team, will guide the Abes. Cochrane takes over for former coach DJ Dobbins, who resigned earlier this month to pursue a career in law enforcement. Cochrane was a volunteer coach at Lincoln last year and previously coached at Franklin Pierce High, Stadium High and Ford Middle School. The 2002 PLU graduate worked at Lincoln last year teaching a program that focused on first-generation college-bound students. Dobbins, who reports to the Tacoma Police Academy this summer, coached Lincoln to a 6-4 record in 2007, his third season as head coach. “We hate to lose him,” Lincoln athletic director Char Davenport said, “but wish him success in his... [read full story]