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IFCA Hall of Fame
IFCA AWARDS
Each year, the Iowa Football Coaches Association recognizes current and former members with induction into its Hall of Fame. The 2020 inductees will be honored an IFCA ceremony. The Coaching with Character Award goes annually to a coach who embodies the high character, integrity, and concern for student-ahthletes and service to the profession that were evident throughout Coach Walt Fiegel’s career.
Jim Dunne
Iowa Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame
All 34 years of Dunne’s varsity football coaching career came at Grinnell, where he spent 11 seasons as an assistant under Steve Kriegel and then 23 as an award-winning head coach. Dunne won nine district titles and recorded a 174-67 record as a head coach, twice a coach of the year finalist and Class 3A’s coach of the year in 1998. Grinnell was the Class 3A runner-up in that 1998 season, tying their best finish in program history. His Tiger teams went to the playoffs 15 times, and included 59 all-state players throughout his tenure. The long-time social studies teacher and activities director was also a Shrine Bowl coach in 1997. Dunne and his wife Sara have three children: Nicole Hart, Katelin Ferguson, and son Eli Dunne. They also have three grandchildren, who live in Texas.
A three-time state champion coach at Xavier, Cedar Rapids, Schulte began his head coaching career at his alma mater, LaSalle, Cedar Rapids, in 1994. His Xavier teams have played in five title games and made him the first coach in state history to win titles in Class 4A and Class 3A. He has recorded seven undefeated regular seasons from LaSalle and Xavier, and has been named the IFCA’s state coach of the year three times (2006, 2013, 2017) and the NFHS Iowa state coach of the year once (2017). A law and economics teacher at Xavier after getting his J.D. from the University of Iowa, Schulte and his wife Sherry live in Cedar Rapids. They have four children: sons Reggie, Bryce, and Quinn - all of whom played quarterback for Xavier and then college football - and daugher Hope who is a senior at Xavier.
Duane Schulte
Jerry Shafrath
A native of Ohio, Shafrath graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 1984 and began his coaching career with football and track and field at CWL, Corwith. After four years he moved to Lena, Illinois as a coach and teacher for two years, then returned to serve as an assistant under Hall of Fame coach Pat Mitchell at Cedar Falls from 1990 to 1994. Shafrath then spent the next 24 years, including 21 as a head coach, at Hampton-Dumont. His teams won 102 games and three district championships, including seven playoff appearances and a string of 28 consecutive regular season victories from 2005 to 2008. Shafrath was a five-time district coach of the year while wearing many hats at Hampton-Dumont as a teacher and administrator before retiring from teacher in 2018. He and his wife Kris have two adult children, son Ross (wife Tara) and daughter Paige.
The current athletic director and record-breaking head coach at Dowling Catholic, West Des Moines, Wilson is a native of Monroe with coaching stops and English Valleys, Wilton, Ball State University, and Dike-New Hartford before taking over the Maroons. Wilson has a career record of 264-64, including a 171-25 mark at Dowling Catholic through the 2020 semifinals. He has led 21 playoff teams and coached in 11 title games, including three runner-up finishes at Dike-New Hartford. His Dowling Catholic squads have won a state-record seven straight championships and have won eight overall. A three-time IFCA coach of the year, Wilson’s high school football coach was his wife Christie’s late father, Larry Andrew. They have three children: Ben, Mallory, and Trey.
