The Peabody High football team has a new coach.Scott Wlasuk, who played football at Peabody in the late 1970s under coach Arthur Adamopoulos, and who coached in the program for more than 20 years, will replace Dick Woodbury, who resigned after one season with the program.”He’s a high-energy guy and the kids really like him,” Peabody athletic director Phil Sheridan said. “He has a lot of experience. I feel we’re really lucky to get a guy like him.”Wlasuk is a lieutenant and detective in the Peabody Police Department. He and his wife, Dorothy, have two sons, Sean, 14, and Cody, who will be 12 tomorrow. Wlasuk said his boys have been a fixture at Peabody practices since they were babies. Sean will be a freshman at the high school in the fall.”They’ve grown up on Peabody High football,” Wlasuk said.As a player at Peabody, Wlasuk was a Greater Boston League All-Star and an Agganis Football All-Star. He went on to play football and lacrosse at Wesleyan University for four years, serving as captain of the lacrosse team his senior year. Wlasuk went on to earn two master’s degrees.Although he will inherit a team that has struggled the last few years, only winning one game last fall, Wlasuk is encouraged by some of the other things he saw out of the players last year.”We only won one game, but there were positives that come out of it. The biggest positive was the character of our kids,” Wlasuk said.Wlasuk said the three captains, Scott Diefenbach, Joe Maroney and Luke Moran, were great leaders on and off the field.”Despite all the adversity we went through last year and the two seasons prior to that, they were kind of the glue that held the team together,” Wlasuk said. “They really set the tone and helped build the foundation to move forward.”Wlasuk said he plans on running a very disciplined program, with a focus on getting back to the fundamentals of blocking and tackling.”I’m not being critical of years prior, but I think we kind of got away from that,” Wlasuk said. “We’re going to play hard-nosed, disciplined, aggressive football. I expect a lot out of them. I want them to be role models, not just in school, but in the community.”Wlasuk said he has a lot of very good athletes returning, and although he won’t make any predictions in terms of wins or losses, he said he guarantees that the team will go on the field as prepared as possible every week.”It’s a great opportunity,” Wlasuk said. “For me, it’s an honor having grown up on Peabody football.”Wlasuk coached many years with former coach Ed Nizwantowski, who he said gave him his first coaching opportunity.”He was always very considerate of my work and my family obligations,” said Wlasuk, who also thanked school officials for hiring him to the job.”I’m humbled by the whole process and honored they selected me,” Wlasuk said. “I look forward to bringing Peabody High football back to our winning tradition.”