{"id":32341,"date":"2026-01-14T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=32341"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:16:55","slug":"blaker-named-bellmont-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/blaker-named-bellmont-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaker named Bellmont football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was made official at Tuesday night&#8217;s meeting of the North Adams School Board that Blake Blaker was named the new football coach.  Athletic Director Aaron Baker introduced him to the board and Blaker made a few comments to the board last night&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BALLblaker.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Blaker comes to Bellmont after leading Southern Wells the last two years, compiling a 2-18 record, with previous stops on the Central Noble, Fort Wayne South, Concordia, and Huntington North coaching staffs.  A graduate of Eastside High School, he also played collegiately at Ball State and at St. Francis, where he was a part of the 2016-17 NAIA Championship team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blaker will also be a social studies teacher at Bellmont.  He is currently working on assembling his coaching staff, and will have a meet and greet at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was made official at Tuesday night&#8217;s meeting of the North Adams School Board that Blake Blaker was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,15,54,26],"class_list":["post-32341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bellmont","tag-featured","tag-football","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bellmont-football-coach.png?fit=678%2C381&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32344,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341\/revisions\/32344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}