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Kelly Juhl Hired to Coach Atlantic Girls Basketball

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May 28th, 2014 by Jim Field

Atlantic High School is pleased to announce that, pending board approval, Kelly Juhl will be taking over as the head girls basketball coach starting with the 2014-­‐15  season.  Coach Juhl began his coaching career at Garner-­‐Hayfield in Garner, IA where he was the assistant boys varsity coach from 1999-­‐2004.  In 2004 he and his family accepted teaching and coaching positions with Duluth High School in Duluth, GA. While there he served as the assistant varsity girls basketball coach where he was part of a program that went 0-­‐25 in his first year there to being a state qualifying team in 2007 and a 4th place finish in Class 5A in 2008. In 2013 Kelly, his wife Amanda, and their three sons Keaton, Kinnick, and Koen relocated back to the area to be closer to family. During the 2013-­‐14 school year Kelly taught and was the assistant girls basketball coach for the Exira-­‐EHK School District.