A retired 10-time WIAA championship basketball coach is returning to the bench next season

Recent hall-of-fame inductee Clark Vining, who won all of those 1B girls titles at Colton, is resurfacing down the road at Colfax

Clark Vining, who was recently inducted into the WSGBCA hall of fame as the Colton girls basketball coach who won 10 Class 1B titles, has accepted an offer to become the new girls coach at Colfax. (Clark Vining / Courtesy)

By most measures, Clark Vining’s success in girls basketball at Colton High School is unmatched.

In 10 of his 19 seasons at the school, he won Class 1B titles, including eight championships in a row from 2009-16. His Wildcats currently still own the longest winning streak in WIAA history (79 games). And when it was over in 2024, he finished with an astonishing 419-54 record.

For all of that record-smashing success, Vining was recently inducted into the Washington State Girls Basketball Coaches Association (WSGBCA) hall of fame.

But he missed it.