Fort Vancouver High School has hired Doug Bilodeau as its next head football coach, athletic director James Ensley said Monday.
Bilodeau, also a teacher at the school, spent the past two seasons as offensive line coach under head coach Neil Lomax, who resigned in December. Before Fort, Bilodeau was head coach of Class 4A North Marion (Ore.) High School from 2012-17. The Huskies made the Oregon 4A state playoffs twice under Bilodeau, including the state quarterfinals in 2015.
In 2019, Fort went 1-8 overall in its first season as an independent in football. It snapped a 30-game losing skid when it beat 2B Northwest Christian of Lacey in October.
Fort is reclassified as a Class 2A school beginning this fall, but the football program will remain independent for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, Ensley told The Columbian in January.
