The WIAA tracks each school’s athletic and academic success throughout an academic year, and for the third year in a row, Seton Catholic has claimed the Scholastic Cup

Paul Valencia
Clark County Today

Another academic year has ended, and another athletic achievement for Seton Catholic.

The Cougars have the best overall sports program in all of Class 1A Washington high school sports — again.

For the third consecutive year, the private school from Vancouver has scored the most points of all Class 1A schools in the state, securing the WIAA’s Scholastic Cup. The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association’s scoring system is based on results in competition as well as the academic status of the student-athletes.

Seton Catholic had 15 teams compete in WIAA postseason play this academic year, with three teams reaching at least the final four. The school’s teams also combined for 10 academic state championships.

“This Scholastic Cup award is an achievement that our community treasures, and we are very proud of our student athletes in both academic and athletic excellence,” according to a release from the school’s athletic department.

Columbia River finished second in the Class 2A Scholastic Cup standings. Camas placed seventh among the Class 4A schools.

Some coaching news:

Mountain View has hired a new boys basketball coach and Union is in the interview process for its boys basketball coach.

Osa Esene, a former high school and college head coach in Oregon, has been hired as Mountain View’s next boys basketball coach. He was the head coach of Franklin High School in Portland before becoming the head coach at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton. He returned to high school to coach at Centennial in Gresham.

Also in boys basketball, Seton Catholic has hired Matt Conboy, a Clark County man who starred in high school at Prairie before becoming one of the area’s top coaches and developers of young basketball players in the region through his Conboy Basketball club.

Meanwhile, Hayden Tilton, who was the boys basketball head coach at Seton Catholic this past season, has been hired as the coach at King’s Way Christian.

And one of the top softball programs in the region is welcoming a new head coach. Marc Hacault got the job at Seton Catholic, taking over for Carrie Kosderka-Farrell. Coach “Kos” led Seton Catholic to second-place finishes at state in 2024 and again last month. Hacault has been an assistant coach with the program and has 14 years of coaching experience in Clark County.