Come fall Kentlake fans will see a new face leading the Falcons on Friday nights.

Brett Thompson will take Chris Paulson’s spot as head coach for the football team.

Kentlake’s Athletic Director Bruce Rick said in an email Paulson is leaving because he accepted the head coaching position at Curtis High School.

Rick said Thompson was selected from a pool of candidates and they believe his “vision, personality, and knowledge of the game was the right fit for Kentlake’s program.”

Thompson joins the Falcons after spending eight years as an assistant coach at Tahoma.

Tahoma’s Athletic Director Tony Davis said in an email Thompson has been a big part of the Bears’ football program.

“He is already missed by our players and coaches,” Davis wrote. “He will have a positive impact on the Kentlake community.”

He also has been teaching social studies for the past 10 years at Tahoma.

It is unknown at this time if Thompson will also be teaching at Tahoma.

The decision to run the Falcons’ football program, Thompson said, is because he has “always wanted to guide an entire football program and help positively impact the lives of young men on a larger scale.”

The next step for Thompson and the Falcons are spring practices.

Thompson said he will be planning those practices as well as organizing summer events for the team.

Thompson said he is bringing with him a “clear vision (of) how our program will encourage growth in regards to how student-athletes develop on and off the field as young men, as students, as leaders and as athletes.”

The transition to head coach as already begun, he said.

Thompson added that he “owes a tremendous amount to Tony Davis and the entire Tahoma community as they have helped me develop as a teacher, coach and leader for the last decade.”

He said he is also “extremely excited to start working with the Kentlake players and community.”

The Falcons season is set to start Sept. 4 with a home scheduled against Graham Kapowsin.