{"id":12555,"date":"2010-05-24T23:06:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T06:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/football-brett-allen-named-new-coach-at-kent-meridian\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T07:45:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:45:26","slug":"football-brett-allen-named-new-coach-at-kent-meridian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/football-brett-allen-named-new-coach-at-kent-meridian\/","title":{"rendered":"FOOTBALL: Brett Allen named new coach at Kent-Meridian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several months of searching, Kent-Meridian High finally landed a new head football coach on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Allen, who coached wide receivers and linebackers at Kent-Meridian from 2001-2004 and who is an English teacher at Mill Creek Middle School, was officially announced as the new coach on Monday after several weeks of speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Allen was an assistant football coach at Auburn Mountainview in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Allen will take over for Trevor Roberts, who stepped down in late February after three years at the helm of the program. In three years at Kent-Meridian, Roberts compiled a record of 7-23. The high-water mark came in Roberts&#8217; first year, when he guided the Royals to a 5-5 overall record, the program&#8217;s best single-season record of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>Kent-Meridian is coming off a 1-9 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several months of searching, Kent-Meridian High finally landed a new head football coach on Monday night.<br \/>\nBrett Allen, who coached wide receivers and linebackers at Kent-Meridian from 2001-2004 and who is an English teacher at Mill Creek Middle School, was officially announced as the new coach on Monday after several weeks of speculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12555"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}