Copan coach, QB join Pawhuska
Copan High School’s head football coach Marshall Foreman announced Sunday that he’s leaving Copan to take an assistant coaching job at Pawhuska High School.
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By Mike Tupa
April 7, 2025
BARTLESVILLE AREA SPORTS REPORT
They say all good things must come to an end.
That’s not necessarily true. Sometimes, good things just change addresses.
That is the scenario in area high school football where two of Copan’s best grid assets — head coach Marshall Foreman and quarterback Kane Foreman have both gone over to Pawhuska.
Marshall is slated to coach Huskie linebackers and perhaps another position group for head coach Matt Hennesy.
Kane brings three years of starting quarterback to Pawhuska, which graduated last year’s super signal caller Canyon Hindman.
Marshall said the main motivation for the change involved his son’s football future.
“With Kane wanting to play at the next level. … I thought it would be better for him in the long run,” Marshall said. “He needs to get a year of 11-man football under his belt.”
Copan competes in the eight-man realm. He was a major part of the Hornets’ success (13 wins, back-to-back playoff years) his sophomore and junior seasons.
But when they sent out tape of Kane to college coaches, Marshall said he began to hear more and more the coaches would like to see film of Kane playing the 11-man game.
Copan High School’s Kane Foreman, son of Copan head coach Marshall Foreman, is leaving Copan for the Pawhuska Huskies. Marshall announced on Sunday that he’s accepted an assistant coaching position at Pawhuska.
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With that in mind, Marshall pursued the Pawhuska option.
“It wasn’t an easy decision,” he said. “It came down to what was best for him. It just made sense to me. … Me and (wife Tiffany) talked about it a long time before we made any decision. We prayed on it. … We still have a lot of people very close to us in Copan and always will be.”
Marshall — a Copan High graduate — rescued the football program back in 2020, despite the complications caused by virus-related slowdown.
In the three previous seasons, Copan hadn’t fielded a complete football team.
The school cancelled the football season in 2017, due to a shortage of healthy, eligible players.
In 2018, Copan co-opted with Wesleyan Christian School, which also struggled with adequate numbers.
Copan and South Coffeyville co-opted in 2019 for the same reason.
Marshall came on board in 2020 and managed to piece together enough players to bring Copan back to full-program status.
It was rough sledding in terms of competitiveness (1-10), but at least the Hornets took down Welch for the team’s first real win since 2016.
The 2021 squad stepped up in program, finishing 2-8.
In 2022, Marshall welcomed on board four extraordinary freshmen that complemented each other. The quartet — which could have been dubbed the Four Hornetsmen — included Kane, Shooter Brewington, Teegan Caron and Weston O’Rourke.
With this feisty foursome providing the foundation, Copan doubled its win total in their freshman year (4-6) and improved to 5-5 in the regular season as sophomores (2023). They also qualified for the playoffs for the first time in 14 years.
Last season, the squad burst to an 8-3 record, including a return to the playoffs.
As soon as the final buzzer sounded on the 2024 season, high anticipation began to build immediately for 2025 with the Four Hornetsmen set to return for their senior season.
But now it will have to be Thunderous Threesome with O’Rourke, Caron and Brewington that get it done.
“They’re going to be good,” Marshall said about the 2025 Hornets. “With Teegan, Shooter and Weston they’re going to be fine. They still have a lot of talent there. I still look for them to go to the playoffs. I have a lot of belief in those kids. … I look for those three big boys to have a pretty big year. I’m excited to see what they do.”
Foreman said he’s coached these four players since first grade, which made leaving at this time especially difficult.
The memories of his years coaching Copan football are thick and sweet, Foreman said.
One of his favorites was the win in 2020 that provided his seniors their only high school win as full-fledged Copan team.
“I’ll always appreciate those guys in Copan for giving me the opportunity to help get the program going in the right direction,” Marshall added.
Foreman said his longtime assistant Trenton Kallenberger should be in line to take the reins.
Meanwhile, Marshall and Kane join a Pawhuska program that has been the area’s best during the course of the past seven seasons. From 2018 through 2024, Hennesy’s Huskie teams have put together a 61-24 cumulative record, seven-straight playoff seasons, eight playoff wins and two appearances in the state semifinals.
Another Copan player, lineman Jaxon White, also is transferring, Marshall said.
Meanwhile, Kane is getting attention from some colleges and recently attended an invite-only showcase camp in Columbus, Ohio, Marshall said.