(La Porte County, IN) - The New Prairie School Corporation will soon begin looking for a new high school football coach.

Casey McKim is taking over the football program in Lowell after winning four sectional titles and once making it to the state finals during his five seasons at New Prairie High School.

Superintendent Dr. Paul White said he hopes to have the position filled well before the end of the school year.

“Certainly, we hope maybe by spring break that we could have somebody identified.  It’s hard to predict how long that will take,” he said.

White said McKim did a great job in taking what was already a strong program to the next level by incorporating passing more into what was once a rushing dominated offense.

“Historically, we’ve been a mud it out on the ground and we’re still definitely that but we got kind of more diversified on things we did,” he said.

McKim left after winning four straight sectional titles. His career record at New Prairie High School was 48 – 17.