Wichita Wild names assistant coaches

The Wichita Wild indoor football team announced Tuesday assistant coaches Rick Lee and Troy Black will return for the 2009 season.

Lee enters his third season with the Wild, while Black enters his second season. New to the staff are Morris Lolar and Wendall Davis.

Lee was an assistant at Rose Hill High School in 1987. He spent the next five seasons as an assistant at Wichita Collegiate. He was the head coach at Pratt Skyline in 1993, followed by Halstead High School. Lee currently is an assistant at Andover High School. As a head coach, his teams have made the playoffs five seasons.

Black is a former offensive lineman and three-year starter at Bethel. He began coaching at Bishop Carroll High School in 1989. After two seasons as Carroll’s freshman coach, he spent five years as an assistant at Wichita Collegiate. He spent two seasons as an assistant at his alma mater Fredonia, followed by two years as a head coach. He spent the 2002 and 2003 seasons as an assistant at Valley Center. He currently is an assistant coach at Collegiate.

Davis played at Wichita North, Coffeyville Community College and Oklahoma, where he had 44 tackles in two seasons with the Sooners. A sixth-round draft pick of the Dallas Cowboys, Davis played in 28 games. After an injury, he spent the 1999 season in the Washington Redskins camp. He re-signed with Dallas that season, playing in six games.

He played for the San Francisco Demons of the XFL in 2000. The following season, he played for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League.

Davis signed with the Grand Rapids Rampage of the Arena Football League in 2001 and spent the next four years with the San Jose SabreCats, winning Arena Bowl titles in 2002 and 2004. He finished his pro career with Arizona in 2006. He has 142.5 tackles in five seasons of AFL play.

Davis is the defensive coordinator at Maize High School. He also coached a season at Wichita North.

Lolar was a three-year starter and two-time National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics All-American at Friends. He played four seasons with the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL and one year with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Lolar has been an assistant coach at Bethany, Friends and Texas A&M-Commerce with high school stops at Wichita North and Wichita Northwest. He currently is an assistant at Wichita East.

The Wild also named LaTisha McFarthing as director of the Wild Things dance team. She has more than 20 years dance experience. She is a Wichita Heights grad, who later attended Allen County Community College, Butler County Community College, Buckner Performing Art School and the Kansas Dance Academy.

She began dancing professionally with the Wichita Wings soccer team in 2000 and 2001. She was a dancer for the Wichita Warlords indoor football team in 2001. She was the dance director and choreographer of the Macon Knights of arenaleague2 from 2001 to 2004.

McFarthing returned to Wichita to attend Wichita State. She graduated with a degree in psychology in 2005. She coached the Wichita Southeast High School dance team from 2006 to 2008. She is working on her MBA at Baker University.