Auburn School District No. 408
915 4th Street Northeast, Auburn, WA  98002

5/22/07

NEWS RELEASE
Auburn Riverside High School Names New Athletic Director

Doug Aubert has been named the new athletic director at Auburn Riverside High School. Currently the marketing instructor and DECA advisor at Auburn Riverside, Mr. Aubert will reduce his teaching load next school year to accommodate his new role as athletic director. Prior to his seven years at Auburn Riverside, Mr. Aubert was the marketing/DECA instructor for six years at Thomas Jefferson High School and 11 years at Lake Stevens High School. 

Mr. Aubert grew up in Auburn. His father, Bob Aubert, was Green River Community College’s first basketball coach and athletic director when the school opened in 1965. A 1976 graduate of Auburn High School, Mr. Aubert attended Green River and then graduated from Central Washington University with degrees in marketing and education. Mr. Aubert has spent most of his teaching career involved in athletics, primarily coaching basketball and football. He first began coaching basketball with his father at Green River, which led him to future stints as a head high school basketball coach, Division 1 college assistant basketball coach and eventually back to high school as a football and basketball coach. He helped lead the Lake Stevens varsity football team to the 1994 state football championship game. Most recently, Doug has been an assistant basketball coach at Auburn Riverside.

“I’ve always wanted to move into administration, but I never wanted to leave the classroom,” says Mr. Aubert. “This new role allows me the best of both worlds; I can be a leader for the school and still be in my classroom.”

Mr. Aubert is also the president-elect for the Washington Association of Marketing Educators (WAME), the DECA league commissioner/area leader for area 5, and he is on the Washington DECA board of directors. In 2006, Mr. Aubert was recognized as the International DECA Outstanding Advisor.

For more information contact Amy Spence, public information officer, at 253-931-4713.