MEDICAL LAKE — As the complicated times of COVID-19 and its aftermath confound things, the Medical Lake girls soccer program will have a familiar face to help guide it. And it’s not who you think.

Coming off two back-to-back campaigns in 2018 and 2019 in which the team posted a combined 1-26 record, longtime head coach Zane Higgins resigned last spring, but assistant Dan Collins has stepped into the role.

“I was willing to do it as an interim position with that once things kind of lightened up a little bit and opened up more in the when the season’s over, like in May, or whatever th...