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Head Coach Mark Ator

Head Coach Mark Ator brings his 18 years experience coaching football to the CHS Colt Football program. This is Coach Ator's 14th year as the Head Coach. He has accumulated a 66-56 football record as Head Coach. During this time he has taken the Colts to 7 Playoff appearances - 4 of those being in Class A. The Colts played in the Semifinals in Class A in 1997 and the Quarterfinals in Class A in both 2000 and 2001.
Coach Ator is proud of the fact that several CHS Colt graduates have found success outside of high school with their football talent:
     *1 player is in the NFL
     * 3 players became Montana Grizzlies
     * 3 players played for Carroll College
     *3 players played for Rocky Mountain College
     *1 player played for Concordia College of Nebraska
     *3 played for  Dickinson State College
     *2 become Orediggers at  Montana Tech College
     *2 players played for Northern Montana College

     Coach Ator  has also coached the MonDak Game in 1998, the Shrine Game in 2001,2002,and 2008, and the Class "B" All-Star Game.
He serves as the District 3B President and is a Board Member of the Montana Association of Athletic Directors as well as Vice President of Class "B". He is also a member of the Class "B" All-Star Football Game Committee.
     In addition to his coaching responsibilities, Coach Ator is the Vice Principal and Activities Director for Colstrip High School. He has been with the school district for 18 years.
     He is married to wife Mindy of 12 years and has 3 wonderful children: Cameron ( Junior), Mya (5th grader) and Ty ( Kindergarten).
 

Head Coach Mark Ator

Coach Bennett has been assistant football coach for 18 years at CHS.  He took a 2 year hiatus after becoming principal at FBMS, but the lure of the gridiron brought him back to coaching.He was defensive coordinator for 10 years under coach Ator before retiring and have been coaching the offensive and defensive lines since coming back.  This year he is coaching the offensive line and the bandits on defense.
He has been an assistant coach in the Class B All Star game as well.
Coach Bennett has been  married to his wife Cindy for 24 years and has  two children;
Judd is a student at the College of Technology in Billings and Blake,who is a freshman at CHS.

 
 

Head Coach Mark Ator

 

Head Coach Mark Ator

Coach Rohlf is in his 7th season as an assistant for the Colts after spending two seasons at FBMS.  He is in his 4th season as the coordinator for special teams,
 and has been coaching the offensive and defensive lines since joining the staff in 2002. 
 He also serves as Offensive coordinator for the JV team.

Coach Rohlf is a former Colt who played for Coach Ator before graduating in 1998.

Coach Rohlf is engaged to Channing Olson
 and has three wonderful children:  Braden (9), Jared (7), and Colt (7 months).
 

Head Coach Mark Ator

Coach Briggs brings 25 years of coaching experience to the CHS Colt program. He was the Head Coach for Mt. Senario, WVU Tech. He was the offensive coordinator at both the college and professional levels and has coached defense and special teams at all levels.
He teaches Social Studies at Colstrip High School and is married to Karen. They have three awesome children: Bjorn ( Freshman), Lili (6th grader), and Freyja (1st grader)

 

Head Coach Mark Ator

Coach Boone Nelson begins his 2nd year as an assistant coach for the CHS Colt football program. Frank Bratten Middle School is fortunate to have him as their Head Coach. He is originally from Helena and is a Carroll College graduate. He moved to Colstrip after teaching in Phoenix Az. He currently teaches 4th Grade.
He and his wife Maggie have two adorable children:
Brendan ( Kindergarten) and Madalyn (age 2)