Bellevue Christian Vikings head football coach Todd Green is the kind of guy who is always in constant motion guiding and directing his players in every facet on and off the football field.

Green, who is in his third season as the Vikings’ head coach, played football for Pacific Lutheran University under the guidance of collegiate coaching legend Frosty Westering in the early 1990s in Parkland. In just his third season at the helm of the Bellevue Christian football program, the team is beginning to see the fruits of their spirited labor on the scoreboard.

The Vikings compete in the Class 1A Division and thus far have put together a 4-3 overall record this season. In Green’s first two seasons on the sidelines, the Vikings compiled a combined record of 4-16.

The significant improvement of the Vikings in “year three” of Green’s tenure is something that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Nearly 14 months ago one of the Vikings best players knew they were heading in the right direction.

Prior to the start of the 2014 season Vikings’ running back Dylan Parsons, who is now a senior, said it was an honor and a privilege playing for Green.

“I have been playing three different sports since I was five years old and I have played for a lot of different coaching staffs and I can honestly say that I’ve never seen a coach who is more invested in his players than coach (Todd) Green,” Parsons said in August of 2014. “He cares so much for us and he puts in so much work to makes us not only better players, but better men.”

Green said during spring football practice sessions in early June that he believes wholeheartedly in the late Frosty Westering mantra of competing against your best self on a daily basis.

“I bleed that stuff. That is really what we want to be about as a football team,” Green said of Westering’s coaching philosophy. “We want to use football as a vehicle to invest in these guys, but also teach them that they can be excellent and great at something that glorifies God and glorifies your teammates. Frosty was a huge influence in my life.”

Frosty passed away in April 2013, but there is no doubt his legacy is living on in Clyde Hill for many years to come.