Coach Pluschke has been coaching football at the high school level since 1994. He has been an assistant coach at  Redmond, Ellensburg, Eastside Catholic and Cedarcrest. He was a head coach in the KingCo conference for 9 years at Juanita and Redmond High Schools. In 2013, he was the assistant head coach at Archbishop Murphy, and due to adverse conditions was thrust into the head coaching duties for the final 7 games of the season that ended in the Quarterfinals of the state playoffs.

Coach Pluschke is a teacher at Redmond High School where he teaches Physical Education. He also coaches basketball at Cedarcrest and has coached track and field. Mike’s favorite Head Coach is Kristine (his wife of 19 years), and his favorite players of all time are Zane (his 17 year old son) and Payton (his 15 year old daughter).  Mike enjoys playing darts, golf, going fishing and watching movies.