Drake Maye, QB of the New England Patriots. GO PAtTS in the Super Bowl Against Seattle on February 8th.

Portlahd High School has a new head football coach:  Dylan Rottkov, who has been the associate head coach and defensive coordinator at Falmouth High School for the past two years.

Rottkov has experience as a defensive assistant.  He started coaching high school football in 2022.  In addition to the past two years at Falmouth, he was the defensive coordinator at Yarmouth High School for one season, in a year when they were the number one seed in 8-man large and spent his first season of coachng as the assistant defensive coordinator here at Portland High School.

Rottkov was a football player and captain at South Portand High School from which he graduated in 2016.   He is currently the owner/president of Blue Wave Basketball Club in Portland, a role that he worked his way up to after starting with the organizatio in 2021.

Rottkov takes over for Nick Cliche, who resigned in December.  Cliche took over for ean Green, who took Portland to Class A title games.  That included a chamption-shte in 2024.

“I am extremely grateful for the opportuity to be next next football coach at Portland High School,” Rottkov said.  “I am excited to begin working with our student-athletes, staff and administration to build a program that reflects the values of both the school and community.  I am fully committed to developing young men of character, accountability and discipline, while building a competitive football progrm that will make our school proud.  Portland High School has a foundation of rich tradition and excellece.  I am looking forward to working, along with my staff, to uphold a standard that all former and current Bulldogs can be proud of.”