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Welcome to SCHS, where state titles are expected Tradition, like winning, doesn’t just happen.

If it was that easy there would be more than 300 Kansas high schools with state championship banners hanging from the rafters in their gymnasiums and countless athletes and coaches would have wondrous stories they could share about their winning seasons.

Many schools have that magical season that is still talked about during reunions or any time the “old timers” get together.

It’s part of the lore. Or, as Bruce Springsteen says, they’re the “glory days.”

This weekend, Scott Community High School athletes, coaches and fans will have an

Rod Haxton, sports editor opportunity to relive those glory days during the All-School Reunion.

As anyone who loves sports can testify, few things are more fun than recalling those days on the football field, the wrestling mat or the basketball floor. It’s a chance to reflect on the tradition that is truly a part of Scott Community High School sports.

Tradition is a word that gets tossed about fairly loosely, but

it truly does describe what has been built in Scott City over the years. What you find in Scott City is a culture of success that doesn’t happen with just one special class or leaves town when a great coach finishes packing his U-Haul. It continues because it’s an attitude and a drive to succeed that’s passed down from fathers to sons and from brothers to their younger siblings.

Becoming a champion doesn’t seem so insurmountable when others have been there before and can tell you what it takes.

“Success breeds success,” notes head coach Glenn O’Neil, who has earned his place as the most successful coach in SCHS

history. “Once you start winning it helps the younger kids to see what it takes to get there and they want to be a part of it.”

And it starts early. Scott City youngsters who are playing YMCA tackle football at the third through sixth grade levels have one goal.

“I can’t wait to be a Beaver,” said one youngster this fall after his team had won the championship game in the third/fourth grade division.

probably half of them think they have state championship caliber teams without understanding the competition that’s out there and what it takes to actually win a championship,” notes O’Neil.

In a sense, he says, Scott City is no different.

“Our community and our kids expect to win a state championship every year,” he says.

Wanting it and working for it are two different things.

That puts SCHS in an elite category with 23 state chamA Championship Culture pionships and another 15 state Of course, everyone wants to runner-up finishes. be a champion. Few know what And while some schools are it takes and even fewer are will- the proverbial “one-trick pony” ing to do what it takes. with most of their state titles “If you were to visit all the coming in one sport, Scott City communities across Kansas, (see TITLES on page 15)

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state record holder

Storm’s 800m, 1600m records still stand 27 years later Jared Storm couldn’t have scripted a better ending to his high school sports career.

As a Scott Community High School freshman, Storm had set a goal of breaking the 800m school record.

In his final race, in his final state track meet, not only did Storm achieve that goal, but he also set his second state record in the Kansas State High School Track and Field Championships.

Both of Storm’s state records still stand today - more than 26 years later.

“My fondest memories at Scott City were running track and setting the records, especially in my senior year when I finally got the record I wanted in my final race,” says Storm, now living in Wahoo, Nebr.

Not only does Storm own the SCHS records in the 800m (1:53.5) and the 1600m (4:17.86), but those still stand as the Class 4A state track records.

Storm’s success in the 1600m could almost be considered an accidental discovery. He didn’t run the 1600m until midway into his junior year when he was timed in 4:29 at the Great Bend Invitational.

“I had no idea I could run that well. It was the farthest I’d run before,” says Storm, who had been a bronze medalist at state in the 800m as a sophomore.

Storm would go on to qualify for state in the 800m and 1600m, winning gold medals in each. A runner from Lansing was the 1600m favorite in Class 4A that season, but Storm ran

Storm’s State Track Career 1987 800m 1:58.20 3rd 1988 800m 1:56.55 1st

1600m 4:17.85 1st 1989 800m 1:53.56 1st

the race of his career and set the 1600m state record in the process while barely missing the 800m record (1:55).

“It was a shock to everybody, including myself. I didn’t even think about setting a record,” Storm says.

Storm was also part of the 1988 Class 4A state championship team that included Lance Lewis (gold medals in the 100m, 200m and shot put), along with Doug Hutchins (3rd in shot put) and Wayne Sanders (4th in long jump).

800m Was the Focus The 800m was always Storm’s favorite event and from the moment he entered high school he set a goal of breaking Roger Winter’s school record of 1:54.5 which had been set in 1973.

“Everyone thought I was crazy. My coaches said I needed a realistic goal,” says Storm.

The 1989 graduate describes the 800m as a “controlled sprint” and his approach to the race propelled him to the state’s elite.

“The key to a fast half mile is running a fast quarter mile,” he says.

Even more critical is the third 200m meters when most runners

Jared Storm comes out of the final curve with 100 meters remaining on his way to an 800m gold medal and state record in the Class 3A state track meet in 1989.

tend to back off a little in order to make a push in the final 200 meters. It was during that 200 meter stretch after completing the first half of the race where Storm felt he separated himself from the rest of the field.

“You have to grit your teeth and go after it. Run the third 200 meters hard and that leaves the home straightaway,” he says.

But there was also another element to Storm’s strategy.

state champion not only failed to win a gold medal, but he failed to qualify for state.

“I didn’t think of it at the time, but not qualifying in the 1600 was a blessing in disguise.

I was able to get the 4x800 (relay) out of the way the day before, so on Saturday I was able to focus just on the half mile,” he says. “If I’d have run both (the 1600m and 800m) I doubt that I’d have set a record.”

Storm says that it takes some good fortune to not just win a gold medal, but to set a record at the state track meet. The weather has to cooperate and Storm had good conditions for both his record-setting efforts.

Despite claiming three state gold medals during his high school career, there’s no doubt that the 800m record holds a special place, going back to the promise that Storm made to himself and his coaches as a freshman.

“I don’t think I really understood the magnitude when it happened,” says Storm. “I think I realize it more now as I get older. At the time, I was just thinking it was the end of my athletic career and I wouldn’t be competing again for Scott City.

But I can’t think of a better way to end my career at Scott City than to set a state record in my final race.”

“I never followed anyone. I made everyone chase me. The 800 is so psychological. When you can take it out hard from the very start you’ve defeated most people. Make them chase you,” he emphasizes. “If you allow them to hang with you it allows them to gain confidence.”

The only thing that didn’t go Career at K-State Storm continued his career as planned during Storm’s senior season was the regional meet on a track and cross-country where the defending 1600m (see STORM on page five)

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Reunion Schedule 10:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Friday, July 3 Registration in SCHS Gym

9:00 a.m.

Golf Tournament

10:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Tours Depart from SCHS

11:00 a.m.

Mud Volleyball Tournament Tours

Tours will be departing from the SCHS parking lot starting at 10:00 a.m. to view Darner Field and the Scott Community Field House.

A bus will leave the parking lot at 1:00 p.m. for a historical tour to include Battle Canyon, the El Quartelejo ruins at Lake Scott and the Duff Buffalo Ranch.

Cost of the tour is $5 which can be paid as passengers board the bus. Bottled water and a snack will be provided. Buses will return at 5:00 p.m.

Class Parties/Gatherings and Float Construction Dragging Main (early evening) Movie in the Park Saturday, July 4 5:30 a.m.

Prayer Service at Lake Scott

(light breakfast, worship, fellowship)

7:00 a.m.

Walk/Run/Roll at Lake Scott

9:00 a.m.

Motorcycle Rally (departing from Patton Park)

Will return in time to ride as a group in the

parade or join with individual classes

9:00-5:00

El Quartelejo Museum/Thomas Gallery open

9:00-3:00

Registration at SCHS Gym

11:00 a.m.

Reunion Parade

1:00 p.m.

Coach and Sports Ceremony

6:00 p.m.

All-School Reunion Dinner

8:00-Midnight

Muzik Machine DJ

8:00-9:30 p.m.

Dance to Jimmy Dee/Destinations

10:00-Midnight

Dance to Anthony and the Anamals

All dances at the fairgrounds

Fireworks Display in the evening On-Line Viewing The Scott Community High School communications class will be live streaming the reunion parade and the sports ceremony on Sat., July 4.

Sunday, July 5 Morning

Church breakfasts and services

More class gatherings

1:00-5:00 p.m.

El Quartelejo Museum/Thomas Gallery open

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scholarship at Kansas State University where he ran the indoor 1,000 meters (a career best of 2:25) and outdoor 1,500 meters, in addition to being a member of one of the nation’s top 4x800m relays. The K-State 4x800m relay on which Storm was a member posted a time of 7:23.48 in 1990 at the Drake Relays.

Storm’s best 800m time in college was 1:50.

“My only disappointment was in not breaking 1:50. I really wanted to do that,” Storm says. “I tore some ligaments in my ankle as a sophomore and I never fully recovered from that.”

Nonetheless, Storm says he enjoyed college track and competing against some of the top athletes in the nation.

“Athletics was huge for me and I’m really proud to be associated with Scott City sports,” adds Storm. “Competing in sports helped to shape who I am now.

“Being from Scott Community High School is something to be prideful of. It’s a special place for athletics and it means a lot to say that I was part of that.”

Scott City’s 1988 Class 4A State Championship Team Lance Lewis Lance Lewis Lance Lewis Jared Storm Jared Storm Wayne Sanders Doug Hutchins

100m 200m Shot Put 800m 1600m Long Jump Shot Put

11.00 22.70 60-5 1/2 1:56.55 4:17.86 21-10 1/2 51-8

1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 4th 3rd

The 1988 Class 4A state championship track team was (front row, from left) Doug Hutchins, Matt Norman, Lance Lewis and Jared Storm. (Back row) Coach Dwight Stoppel, Coach Dave Dunham, Garrett Riner, Wayne Sanders and Coach Bill Dryer.

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May Fete

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Extravagant production a tradition from 1937 to 1966 Before there were women’s sports at Scott Community High School there was May Fete.

For those too young to remember, this was an annual dance production held on May 1 which culminated with the wrapping of the May pole in the high school gymnasium.

Dating back to the first May Fete in 1937, the May Queen and her court were treated to dances held in their honor. The dances were performed by members of the Girl Reserves, which became the Y-Teens in 1946.

Whoever was elected president of the organization the previous spring automatically became the May Fete queen.

“This was a pretty big event,” says 1957 Queen Mary Ann (Marcy) Evans. “I’d say about 100 percent of the girls were involved and the gym was filled the night of the performance. It was something we really looked forward to.”

Months of preparation went into the production. Girls would rehearse the dances during second semester physical education classes in addition to some evening practices.

“May Fete was probably the largest production of the year with all the classes participating in dances, songs, special instrumental numbers and the crowning of the queen,” says Janice (Buehler) Storm, the 1964 queen.

Arlene (Miller) Cauthon, the 1946 queen, recalls that longtime SCHS English teacher

May Fete Queens 1937-38: *Not recorded 1939 Gwen Gowan 1940 Donnis Lee King 1941 Vernice Gowan 1942-44 **Not recorded 1945 Lucille Loker 1946 Arlene Miller 1947 Mary Jo Webster 1948 Shirley VanAntwerp 1949 Donna Jean Whiteman 1950 Donna Fitzgerald 1951 Marvel Scott 1952 Donna Keyse 1953 Shirley Eitel 1954 Virginia Robinson 1955 Karen Murray 1956 Sonja Hushaw 1957 Mary Ann Marcy 1958 Carol Clark 1959 Patti Thiele 1960 Ellen Brittan 1961 Bylle Snyder 1962 Louise Lewis 1963 Janet Griffith 1964 Janice Buehler 1965 Karen Hoeme 1966 Becky Anderson * No annuals during Depression ** No annuals during WWII

Anne Wood was in charge of preparing girls for the May Fete and teaching them their dances that would tie in with a particular theme which varied from year to year. Storm recalls that the 1964 theme was “World’s Fair.”

Evans remembers one dance number involved girls who were dressed in French attire and dueling with rapiers (slender, sharply pointed swords).

Another class wore plaid skirts of Scotland and performed a Highland fling. At other times, there were girls performing ballets, waltzes or other dances.

“One time we even had court

A “Skaters Waltz” is performed in the gymnasium the year before the new gym is completed and the former gym converted into an auditorium.

jesters who were part of the entertainment,” says Evans.

And there was also the year that girls performed a “Skater’s Waltz” while on roller skates.

But that was only allowed one time - in May of 1959 when the old gym was being converted into an auditorium and a new gym was being constructed.

The first fete in the new gym was in 1960.

The dances were performed

by the freshman, junior and senior classes. The evening would end with 24 sophomore girls wrapping the May pole which was in the center of the gymnasium.

would wear a train that was being carried by two youngsters, in addition to being accompanied by a crown bearer.

The original story, “The Spring Legend,” was read after the entrance of the dancers, the Pomp and Circumstance processional of the queen and The former queens remember her court, and the coronation of there was quite a ceremony pre- the queen by the newly electceding the performance as the ed club president (the queen in queen and her court were escort- waiting). ed into the gym. The queen (see MAY FETE on page 10)

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SCHS Football

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8 undefeated seasons, 4 state championships Scott Community High School wasted little time establishing its football credentials with its first undefeated season back in 1910.

However, it would be another 44 years before the Beavers would repeat the accomplishment and when they added three state titles in a four year span from 1988-91 SCHS had clearly established itself among the elite programs in Kansas.

Very little is known about the 1910 undefeated season, other than who the team members were.

Many credit head coach O.L. Darner with taking the first major step in elevating the Scott City program to where it is today when he led the Beavers to a 9-0 record in 1930.

His reward was to have the football field moved from a sticker patch in the northwest part of town to its present location. In 1935, the field was named in his honor.

Larry Huck, who was the football head coach from 196571, said he was always curious about the man for whom the field was named.

“From what I’ve read about him he was called the Knute Rockne of Scott City football,” says Huck.

After coaching the Beavers from 1927-34 (compiling a 4610-11 record) Darner became the principal/football coach at Garden City and then Dodge City. Afterwards, he served in the Army Reserves where he trained troops in California,

took them overseas and would then return to California and start the process all over again.

“I think he was a class act. He got the kids to winning,” Huck says.

Honoring 5 Coaches Darner is one of five coaches who have had undefeated seasons with SCHS and will be recognized on football panels that will be unveiled during a special ceremony on Saturday afternoon of the All-School Reunion. The ceremony will feature the presentation of 20 panels to SCHS which highlight Scott City sports over the past 105 years.

Huck says that while there have been a number of outstanding coaches over the years, the football panels focus on those who had undefeated seasons, including Darner, Joe Manatowa (1955), Huck (1966, 1967), Dave Dunham (1988, 1991) and Glenn O’Neil (2012).

Three additional coaches who didn’t have undefeated seasons, but who Huck feels made great contributions to Scott City’s success include Phil Hower (2918), Ken Caywood (50-22) and Bill Arnold (56-17).

“They were all well-respected coaches who deserve a lot of credit for what they did for Scott City football,” Huck says.

Monatowa Revives Football Following Darner’s successful run, the Beavers fell upon hard times during the next 15 seasons when they were a combined 38-79-10.

The Beavers and head coach Dave Dunham celebrate their third state title in four years after defeating Riverton, 48-32, in the 1991 state title game.

(Yearbook Photo)

That’s when Joe Manatowa, a full-blooded Native American, arrived.

Gene Hess remembers that Monatowa originally coached the junior varsity before becoming the head coach from 195058.

“He was a good coach and I remember that everyone liked him,” says Hess, who was the starting quarterback during his junior and senior seasons.

During Hess’s senior year, the Beavers were 8-2 with losses to Garden City and Ness City.

“Coach Monatowa knew football really well. I think he played college football at Okla-

homa State University as a kicker,” says Hess.

The winning continued for another five seasons under Bill Blaesi (1959-63, 29-13-3) after which SCHS was again searching for another head coach.

When Blasi left, Huck was asked if he’d be interested in being head coach.

I honestly didn’t think I was ready,” Huck says.

Dean Barnes was hired and Huck was an assistant coach.

After a 3-6 season, Barnes stepped aside and Huck took over the program.

“I didn’t feel any pressure,” says Huck, who had been a four-year starter as an offensive

and defensive lineman at Southwestern College, Winfield, before coming to Scott City in 1963. “Scott City, at that time, was a basketball town. It was my desire to make it a football town. At one time I had 103 kids out for football.”

Over the years, Scott City has been identified as a physical football team and that foundation may very well have been laid during the Huck era.

“I had Bill Dryer as my line coach and we emphasized that we were going to be more physical than our opponent,” Huck says. (see FOOTBALL on page 11)

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Members of the 1966 undefeated SCHS squad were (front row, from left) Larry Appel (trainer), Larry Palkowitsh, Dick Strickert, Woody Jeffrey, Steve Blickenstaff, Mike O’Neal, Mike Aytes, Mike Scheuerman, Terry Faurot and Rex Reifschneider (trainer). (Second row) Steve Geist, Lynn Hoeme, Steve Settles, Gary Marcy, Tom McCollom, Ron Suppes, Gary Ohnick, Vernon Breit, Shorty Lawrence, Danny Daubert, Greg Mares and Ron Hines. (Third row) Head coach Larry Huck, Rick Huck, Terry Unrein, Louis Parkinson, Steve Edmundson, Eddie Wilken, Roger Russell, Mike Kitch, Bob Cupp, Randall Schwanke and Larry Hoeme. (Back row) Don Cotton (freshman coach), Bill Dryer (assistant coach), Larry Russell, Dale Green, Royce Gruver, Doug Schwartz, David Whitman, Bill Herman, Leon Conway (assistant coach) and Don Krebs (assistant coach).

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Queen Donna Fitzgerald reigns over her court during the 1950 May Fete celebration at Scott Community High School.

May Fete “I’d been across the auditorium many times, but it never seemed as long as it was that night,” says Cauthon.

She remembers that the crown bearer was Steve Schmitt.

Even the wrapping of the May pole required a lot of prac-

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tice as the 24 girls had to weave in and out among each other in a specific manner to make sure the entire pole was covered by streamers.

“I have very special memories of a very special evening,” says Storm. “It was a wonderful

experience.”

The queens also point out that the Girl Reserves and Y-Teens did much more than perform at May Fete. They were also service organizations who were involved in a variety of social events that included a Mother-

Daughter Banquet, a big/little sister party for a senior girl and a younger high school student. They were also involved in charitable activities that included fundraising for polio, heart and tuberculosis, making health kits for soldiers serving

in the Korean War and taking Christmas baskets to needy families.

One of the Y-Teen highlights for Evans came when she and Linda Anderson were delegates to the national convention in New York City.

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Football Huck coached for seven years before getting a call from former Kansas State University head coach Vince Gibson asking him to join his staff as a graduate assistant. He quit his teaching/coaching position at SCHS and was preparing to make the move to Manhattan when a ranch in the Healy area became available.

“I’ve been in the cattle business all of my life. It was something I couldn’t pass up,” says Huck, who purchased the ranch and never again returned to coaching.

The Dunham Era Following a very successful tenure by Kenny Caywood, who was a popular coach at SCHS, the football program was elevated to yet another level with the hire of Dave Dunham.

Dunham was the first coach to introduce strength training as a part of the high school curriculum and his intense program had an immediate impact - not just on football, but for all high school sports.

“In my first conversation with Dave he was talking about his weight program. It was far more detailed than I ever imagined. He had a program for each

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kid,” recalls Huck. “Whatever they lifted today they would lift a little more tomorrow, and the next day. He made sure every kid was being pushed to his maximum ability. He had it all recorded. It was very sophisticated.”

“He made great athletes out of good kids,” says Huck, and it pushed Scott City into elite status among Kansas high school programs.

Dunham coached the Beavers to Class 4A state titles in 1988, 1990 and 1991 along with a runner-up finish in 1994.

It’s no coincidence that of Scott City’s 23 championship banners, 21 came after 1986 - Dunham’s first year in Scott City. It’s also no coincidence that other high schools throughout Western Kansas soon followed Scott City’s lead in strength training.

The strength training emphasis that started with Huck and Don Krebs in the old field house, and took another dimension under Dunham, is still a key component of Scott City’s success today under head coaches O’Neil and Jim Turner.

Bill Arnold had a very successful tenure (56-17) with Scott City’s best state title shot

Members of the undefeated 1910 SCHS football team were (seated, from left) Roy Steele, Bonnie Rochester, Glenn Mowery, Roy Robb and Lester Reid. (Standing) Jim Smith, Wilford Mott, Floyd Helfrick, Walter Post, L.H. Pettit (principal), Ross Hollister (coach), Earl Tilton, Clarence Reid, Romie (Mike) Riley and Bond Hale.

coming in 2002 when the Beavers thumped Holton (34-14) and then had to go back on the road again the following week against Wellington. A blocked punt by Wellington set up the game’s only touchdown in a 7-0 loss that ended the Beavers’ season at 11-1.

The following week, Wellington rolled to an easy win over Fort Scott in the state title

game.

O’Neil was an assistant coach on that staff and when Arnold resigned in 2006 to accept the head coaching position at Topeka Hayden, Huck knew who to approach about filling the position.

“After Bill had resigned I asked Glenn if he was interested in the job. I told him that if he was that Scott City would be

behind him 100 percent,” says Huck. “That wasn’t a lie.”

In seven of O’Neil’s eight seasons as a head coach, Scott City has been the district champion and won 10 or more games in seven straight seasons.

“He’s a very intelligent person and he gets the most out of his kids,” says Huck. “The football people in Scott City see that.”

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Inside the numbers . . .

55

number of wins in Scott City’s last 56 game regular season

6

consecutive district titles won by the Beavers

.870

winning percentage for head coach Glenn O’Neil. He has the highest percentage and most wins in SCHS football history.

total number of losses by the SCHS football team since the 2008 season

consecutive winning seasons by SCHS football teams

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4 rings in 5 years

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2015 state hoops title was Scott City’s fourth since 2011 Head coach Glenn O’Neil and his Scott City basketball teams haven’t been in state title games every year.

It just seems that way.

The SCHS head coach has certainly made his mark on Scott City’s championship tradition with five state titles and appearances in seven state championship games during his 19 year coaching career.

Even more remarkable has been five consecutive trips to the state finals (2011-15) and championship trophies in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015.

Even though he was a winning coach when he took over the SCHS program in 1996, O’Neil admits that state championships wasn’t what brought him to Scott City. In fact, had that been the primary motivation, he might never have made the trip.

“You can’t honestly say that you expect to win state championships when you take over a program,” he says. “There are so many factors involved in making that happen.

“And when I came to Scott City they’d only had one (basketball) championship in their history and it had been almost 20 years since they’d been to the state tournament.”

Even though Scott City had long considered itself a basketball town (at least before Dave Dunham’s three football championships) and it was home to the long-running Scott City Invitational Tournament, the Beavers hadn’t been to state since 1979 prior to O’Neil’s arrival.

Glenn O’Neil’s Season Records at SCHS 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Total Win Pct.: .769

14 10 15 8 17 6 18 7 16 7 15 9 14 8 9 12 21 3 24 2 20 6 13 9 18 5 17 6 25 1 25 1 25 1 21 4 25 1 352 106

O’Neil wasted no time making his mark on the program.

SCHS advanced to the Class 4A state tournament that season and three years later they finished fourth at state.

“It’s always our hope that we can get to state, but our goal every years is to play for the sub-state championship,” says the head coach.

That may seem like a pretty lofty goal for most programs (which it is), but then one must consider the following: Scott City has been in the sub-state title game in 15 of O’Neil’s 19 seasons.

In other words, Scott City has made 11 state trips with O’Neil as the head coach. They came within one win of being in 15 state tournaments.

O’Neil finally had the nucleus for a team that would put

Head coach Glenn O’Neil allows himself a rare smile as he and his son, Trey, enjoy the moment following Scott City’s 60-48 win over Wichita Collegiate in the 2015 Class 3A state title game.

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Scott City on the basketball map in 2004-05. That year he had a group of juniors which included center Tim Peintner, Justin Miller, David Heyd, Ross Strube, Drew Crist, Colby Dunagan and Aric Reed. They were joined by sophomores Corbin Kuntzsch and Chance Chelemedos.

Scott City qualified for state in 2004-05, but were defeated in the opening round. The following season, SCHS was 24-2 and won the Class 4A championship.

Even after being hit hard by graduation, the Beavers were able to keep that winning tradition alive the following season

when Kuntzsch led the team to a 20-6 record and a runner-up finish in the Class 3A state tournament where they lost to Wichita Collegiate.

One of the highlights during that post-season run was a 40-point performance by senior guard Corbin Kuntzsch in a (see 4 RINGS on page 31)

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hall of famer

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Gruver is the gold standard with 12 individual track titles Winning seemingly came easy for Jennifer (Gruver) Kirkpatrick.

From the time she first began practicing on the former track at Manning School until she stepped off the Wichita State University track following her final state championship race, rarely did the Scott Community High School standout not have a gold medal hanging around her neck.

In the Class 4A Kansas State High School Track and Field Championship she earned 16 medals in four appearances - the maximum that a high school athlete can achieve - including 12 golds and four silvers.

That puts her among the elite athletes ever to come out of Kansas high schools and will earn Kirkpatrick a place in the Kansas State High School Activities Association Hall of Fame. She was inducted with two other members in the Class of 2014 during a ceremony held at the state track meet in May. “When I was first told that I was going into the Hall of Fame I thought they’d made a mistake,” says Kirkpatrick, now living in Junction City.

In fact, she says the only time the Hall of Fame ever crossed her mind came during a state track meet when former great Shawnee Call, a 1983 graduate of Ellsworth who still holds the state track records in the 100m high hurdles and the 300m low

hurdles, was being recognized as a Hall of Fame inductee.

“She owned the state records in the events I was competing in and I remember thinking how neat it was that she was being inducted. But once I graduated it never crossed my mind,” Kirkpatrick says.

While she may not have thought about the Hall of Fame, those responsible for selecting nominees hadn’t forgotten about Kirkpatrick - and for good reason.

It was evident early in her career that Kirkpatrick was not your average athlete.

“I hated softball,” she recalls, so during the summer after her fourth grade year she switched to track.

“I had an older cousin who had done AAU track and Dad suggested I give it a try. I said I would, but I wasn’t too excited about it.”

Competing in the long jump, 100m and the 400m that first year, the 10-year-old qualified for nationals and she continued to qualify every year afterwards.

While she says her father, Stan, never pressured her to compete in track there was one stipulation.

“Dad said that at least one event had to be the 400 (meters).

He said we needed to run at least that far because it builds character,” she says with a laugh. “And he said he wasn’t going to travel all around the country for the

Jennifer Gruver wins a gold medal in the 100m high hurdles at the Class 4A state track meet during her senior season at SCHS.

100 or 200 (meters).”

By the time Jennifer, along with her younger sister (Julie) and brother (Drew) had begun training as youngsters the Manning School, located across the road from their home, had closed. But the Gruvers had a key to the building so they could use the gym to play basketball.

And Stan had mowed the pasture south of the school, retracing the former track, so his kids would have a place to run.

“Horses were kept over there,” she says, pointing to what’s left of a small corral and shelter. “Once in awhile they’d be on the track and we’d have to run around them.”

The track and surrounding ground have since been planted to milo, but Kirkpatrick could

still find the location where she was able to work on her long jump and triple jump.

“It seemed that I was always good at the jumps,” says Kirkpatrick.

It wasn’t until her seventh grade year that she was old enough to compete in the hurdles at AAU meets. There were no hurdles on the family track either.

“I was pretty excited. I’d always loved watching the hurdlers at meets,” she says. “I never had a fear of the hurdles - or of falling.”

school, former head coach Dwight Stoppel also put her in the 300m low hurdles.

“I was petrified. I couldn’t see hurdling that far,” she says.

In her first competition, Kirkpatrick set a new school record.

Kirkpatrick considered the triple jump her strongest event, which is no surprise after being a former national AAU champion and three-time Class 4A state champion. It was through no fault of her own that she didn’t claim a fourth state title. The KSHSAA didn’t add the triple jump as a state event for girls until Kirkpatrick’s sophomore Hurdles Were Perfect Fit year.

She was a natural.

She added four more state While Kirkpatrick had titles in the 100m high hurdles planned to compete in the high and the long jump. (see GRUVER on page 29) hurdles once she entered high

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has championship banners representing seven different sports.

For years, Scott City has thought of itself as a football town, which was certainly the case when O’Neil arrived. The head coach doesn’t know if that thinking has changed over the past 19 years with the basketball team’s success.

He does feel that Scott City may perceive itself a little differently than what those outside the community see.

“When you get outside Scott City and travel around the state, when I go to clinics and all-star games and visit with other coaches, they don’t think of Scott City as a football town, but as a championship town,” emphasizes O’Neil.

“You combine the success that football and basketball have had with the four state championships we’ve won in wrestling along with track and cross-country and people see this as a community that knows how to win. We aren’t a community known for success in just one sport, but for our success all across the board.”

That happens when a community and the athletes buy in to what it takes to be a championship caliber program.

On the pages within this special section, we have tried to capture some of those memories and a few of those championship moments. Obviously, SCHS athletes have enjoyed far too much success over the years to be condensed into this publication.

That’s a great problem to have.

So SCHS alumni, enjoy your weekend in Scott City. Share in the celebration of past championships. Reminisce about the many great athletes and coaches that we’ve produced over the years.

And while you’re celebrating the glory days you can rest assured that, unlike Springsteen’s song, there are many more still to come in Scott City.

SCHS State Championships Football

1988

1990

1991

2012

Boy’s Track

1987

1988

1995

2008

Girl’s Track

1989

1990

1994

Boy’s X-Country

2007

Boy’s Basketball 1958 2006 2011 2012 2013 2015 Wrestling

1990 1994 2004 2012

Girl’s Golf

1981 SCHS State Runners-up

Football

1994

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Boy’s Basketball

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2007

Girl’s Golf

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1984

Girl’s Track

1985

1991

Baseball

1993 1994

Wrestling

1993 2001

Boy’s X-Country

2012

Boy’s Track

2011

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2007 state championship season set a new standard Any state championship is a great achievement.

When it’s a title that you didn’t anticipate, that can make the feeling even more special.

So it is with Scott Community High School’s first - and thus far only - state title in cross-country.

It’s hard to imagine that a team can have an athlete who would win an individual gold medal in Class 3A cross-country his senior year, and follow that with gold medals in the 800m, 1600m and 3200m state track meet the following spring would somehow escape attention for most of the season.

That can happen when you are competing in Western Kansas.

But even with standout Trace Kendrick, who would later run on a track scholarship at Wichita State University, the Beavers weren’t among the state favorites when the 2007 season began. Even first year head coach Kevin Reese didn’t have expectations set that high.

He had been an assistant coach the previous season when Kendrick was the lone state qualifier and finished seventh.

“Except for Trace, we hadn’t had a lot of success that season, so I wasn’t sure what to expect,” says Reese. “Given the teams I knew were supposed to be pretty good in (Class) 3A, placing at state wasn’t even on our radar.”

Kendrick was the glue that pulled this team together. He would organize runs during the summer and the athletes, on their own, decided to attend a cross-country camp in Colorado.

2007 State Results Trace Kendrick Tyrel George Cosme Chavez Miles Pearson Ian Huck Brett Summers KC Kough

1st 10th 26th 32nd 45th 70th 71st

16:36 17:45 18:23 18:30 18:52 19:41 19:41

The Beavers developed those intangibles that can turn good athletes into a great team.

“We had a very strong core of leaders. Trace was the kind of athlete who led by example and was well-respected. Tyrel George was our vocal leader and Cosme (Chavez) was an incredibly hard worker,” says Reese.

Add in team members such as Ian Huck, Miles Pearson, KC Kough and Brett Summers, among others, “and you had guys who liked hanging around with each other.”

All of that might not have been enough if Huck hadn’t realized his role on the team.

The senior started the year running the 3.1 mile courses in the mid-20 minute range, but had cut that by about two minutes heading into regional.

“I think Ian felt the weight of the rest of the team on him.

He knew what he had to do in order to give the team a chance to win,” Reese says. “It’s not often that you say the fifth place finisher on your team was the linchpin, but in this instance I think that was the case.”

Despite the progress the team made late in the season, Reese still wasn’t thinking of a state title. Even after a dominating performance at regional, Reese

SCHS cross-country team members who competed at, or were alternates, at the Class 3A Kansas State Cross-Country Championships in 2007 were (from left): Bethany Beckman (18th), Carl Minnix, assistant coach Mark Campos, Miles Pearson (32nd), Ian Huck (45th), Tyrel George (10th), Cosme Chavez (26th), Trace Kendrick (1st), Brett Summers (70th), Brenton Carson, KC Kough (71st) and head coach Kevin Reese.

says “we were shooting for a top five finish.”

“We figured that would be pretty good considering we’d never even qualified as a team the previous year,” he notes.

But when Kendrick (16:36) came across the starting line in first place at state and George (10th, 17:45) was in the top 10, Scott City’s prospects changed quickly. Scott City (75) would nudge Wichita Trinity (82) by only seven points for the team title.

“I felt this team had the talent to do better than any other team in Scott City history. I put it on them and told them they would have to work harder than they’d ever done up to that point and they responded,” says the

SCHS coach. “But that’s how these boys were. They would do whatever you asked of them.”

He also adds the state title wouldn’t have happened without Kendrick, George and Chavez.

“I’m not sure they knew how talented they were,” he says.

Which is probably why Reese or the team wouldn’t allow themselves to entertain the prospect of a state title.

“I never said anything and I never heard the boys talking about it. I guess that’s one thing which made the whole season so special is that it was unexpected,” he says. “We wanted to do something special, but we didn’t even know what that would end up being.”

In 2012, the Beavers would return to the state awards stand with a runner-up finish in the Class 3A state meet held at Rim Rock Farm, near Lawrence.

Reese says members of that team had better times, overall, than their 2007 counterpart, “but they had to because all the teams at state have continued to get better.”

However, Reese says the program’s success over the past decade can be linked to the 2007 championship.

“That team really raised the bar for our cross-country program,” he adds. “Without that team showing what was possible, I don’t think we’d have enjoyed the success we’ve had since.”

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into the Final Four

Baker earns celebrity status as Shox become national power It’s the kind of story that if you tried to sell it to Hollywood they would laugh you off the studio lot.

Except this feel-good story is true.

Small-town basketball players refused to accept offers to play at small college programs because he aspires for something greater.

He gets his chance to play for a Division I university that hasn’t enjoyed big-time success for three decades.

That program is on the rise. This player earns a starting role and instantly becomes a fan favorite.

The team plays in the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four one season and the following season they become the No. 1 ranked team in the nation.

Couldn’t happen, right?

Call it “The Ron Baker Story” and you just might have a blockbuster.

But until that happens, the former Scott Community High School threesport standout will be content with living the dream as a member of the Wichita State Shockers where he has been a three-year starter since his redshirt season.

The rise to fame began when the Shockers upset No. 1-seeded Gonzaga in the 2013 NCAA Tournament on their way to the Final Four.

The notoriety that Baker was receiving from the announcers during the Gonzaga game, and having Scott City mentioned on several occasions, was just the beginning.

During the post-game news conference, when Ron said into the camera, “Scott City, I love you,” everything broke loose.

Baker became an overnight celebrity beyond Scott County.

He’s been interviewed on sports radio and television shows, been

featured in the New York Times and Sports Illustrated featured him as one of the top 20 performers in the NCAA Tournament.

The success of Baker and the Shockers has slowed very little since.

During the 2013-14 season, WSU’s 35-game win streak to open the season was a NCAA record (broke in 2014-15 by Kentucky). And they were the No. 1 ranked team in the country.

They lost a 78-76 heartbreaker in the NCAA Tournament round of 32 to eventual champion Kentucky.

This past season marked the third consecutive year that the Shockers finished with at least 30 wins. They also cemented their status as a top-tier program with wins over the University of Kentucky and Indiana.

After seeing their season end in the Sweet 16, the next big question facing the Shockers was who would be coming back and who wouldn’t. In the end, head coach Gregg Marshal and Baker didn’t depart WSU and the Shockers will once again be ranked among the top teams in the nation with the 2015-16 season begins.

As for Baker, another big season will enhance his draft status in the NBA. This past year, after visiting with general managers and other front office personnel in the NBA, it appeared that if Baker were to take his chances in the draft he would be a late second round selection, at best.

Baker has accomplished his primary goal. He will have a degree when he leaves WSU. His second goal is to have another enjoyable and successful season with Wichita State.

“My goal is to play in the NBA, but it’s not something I had to do right now. I can wait another year,” he says.

Baker drives to the basket against Indiana’s Stanford Robinson during first round tournament action earlier this year. (Photo courtesy of The Wichita Eagle)

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Dunham guides SC to three Class 4A state titles in 1988, 1990, 1991 Scott City’s history as a powerhouse football program - and their high school trophy case - might look a little different if not for a fortunate decision that was made just over 25 years ago.

Dave Dunham was instrumental in putting SCHS football on the map with three state titles during a four year span (1988, 1990, 1991).

Yet, when Dunham stopped in Scott City to interview for the football coaching position in

1986, it was more of a courtesy visit than a serious attempt to get the job.

“When I left McCook, I was headed for Texas for big-time football,” admits Dunham. “I stopped in Scott City on the way through. I didn’t know anything about the program except there was an opening. While I was interviewing I learned about the football program and that they’d been in one playoff game and they’d lost that one.” (see DUNHAM on page 19)

Former SCHS head coach Dave Dunham (left) visits with one of his former players, Jon Berning, prior to a Scott City playoff game.

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Dunham So what changed his mind?

During that visit, Dunham stepped into the weight room where he happened to see standout athletes Lance Lewis and Doug Hutchins.

“When I saw those two boys, I figured that with kids like that in a town this size, there was a chance we could do pretty well.”

That proved to be an understatement. The Beavers did more than “pretty well.”

Power Football After accepting the position, Dunham knew what his first task would be. He had to establish the importance of strength training - not just as a summer activity but as a part of the yearround curriculum at SCHS. Not that SCHS athletes weren’t familiar with strength training. In fact, it was through powerlifting that Dunham first heard about Scott City.

“I sent my kids from McCook to a Colby weight lifting meet and they came back talking about this kid from Scott City,” recalls Dunham.

That “kid” was Lance Lewis’ brother, Rick.

However, Dunham took the program to another level which athletes in Western Kansas had never seen before.

“There was no doubt in my mind then, and still today, that a strength training program will make a bigger difference in the success of your programs than anything else you can do,” says Dunham. “Your kids gain confidence in themselves and their ability. No single thing has had a bigger impact on the face of athletics in terms of strength and agility than a good strength con-

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ditioning program.”

Dunham was also in a unique position as the first certified strength instructor at the high school level in a four-state area.

“I had an education that few had at the time. We emphasized the core of strength instead of trying to do a little bit of everything. We only had 50 minutes (of class time each day). You don’t have time to do a lot, so you have to use your time to do a couple of things really well.”

The impact was evident.

SCHS boys and girls dominated the early years of state powerlifting. During Dunham’s final year at SCHS in 1995, the boys captured their sixth straight state powerlifting title and the girls won their fourth consecutive title. In addition, SCHS athletes owned the state record books in both divisions.

Football Success What was happening in the weight room paid off on the football field, the wrestling mat and in track.

“We had kids coming out for football who never would have considered it otherwise until they saw their bodies changing (in the weight room),” says Dunham.

Not that success was immediate.

The Beavers won just three football games during Dunham’s first season in 1986 and improved to 8-3 in 1987.

Ironically, SCHS didn’t have their breakout season until 1988 - the year after Lewis and Hutchins had graduated.

“After those two boys graduated no one was expecting us to do a lot,” notes Dunham. “But

SCHS seniors raise the championship trophy at Cessna Stadium, Wichita, following the state championship win over Marysville, 13-0, during the 1990 season. (Yearbook Photo)

rather than a couple of superstars we had a very good team.

I knew they were going to be good.”

They were more than good.

The Beavers posted the sixth undefeated record in school history, capped by a 31-14 win over Baldwin in the Class 4A state title game.

“You can never be certain when you start a season that you will be state champs. There are too many things that you have no control over,” says Dunham.

“But it sure felt good to win that first championship.”

The state title run in 1990 was probably the most unlikely.

In fact, the Beavers looked like anything but a state championship team after starting the season 2-2.

“After the fourth game I had a meeting with the team before school and we looked at what

was giving us problems. There was nothing in the two losses that wasn’t correctable. It was mental, not physical. Once we simplified things we never lost again,” he says.

The Beavers collected their second state title with a 13-0 win over Marysville.

The following year, Scott City may have had the most improbable win in Dunham’s history. During the playoffs they ran into Andale and their powerful running attack in the bidistrict round.

“They had a big fullback and I remember our noseguard coming out of the game one time and telling me, ‘Coach, I feel like I’m being run over by a Mac truck.”

The Beavers scored their only touchdown on the first play of the game and had another touchdown called back by a penalty.

“One of the worst things that can happen is to score quickly like that,” Dunham says. “The boys start to think the whole game will be like that and they let down a little.”

The Beavers never reached the end zone again. In fact, Andale held an amazing 76-26 advantage in offensive plays.

Yet, Andale only scored one touchdown and the teams finished regulation tied 6-6.

After both teams were held scoreless in the first overtime, Scott City had first possession in the second overtime and again were held out of the end zone, settling for a field goal.

Andale fumbled on their first play, which was fortunate for the Beavers.

“They had a wide open hole.

If they don’t fumble they score a touchdown,” Dunham says. (see ANDALE on page 28)

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SCHS tradition grows with unbeaten seasons under Huck in ‘66, ‘67 The success of Scott Community High School football is built on a foundation of outstanding athletes, great coaches and a commitment to a higher standard.

The coaching element was established by Otis Darner (192734), for whom the football field was named. During his tenure the Beavers compiled a 4610-11 record - a win total that wasn’t exceeded until more than 30 years later by Joe Monatowa

(52-28-1) and matched by Larry Huck (46-15-2).

Under Huck, who coached from 1965-71, the Beavers enjoyed their second and third undefeated seasons in school history in 1966 and 1967.

Pretty impressive for an individual who, two years earlier, didn’t feel he was ready to be the head coach. Huck was an assistant for the Beavers when he was asked in 1964 to consider the head position. (see HUCK on page 23)

Former SCHS head coach Larry Huck visits on the sideline with Mike Austin during the 1968 season.

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300 win club

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Lippelmann achieves rare status as SC wrestling coach At the conclusion of his 7-4 win against Ulysses, Scott City heavyweight Lane Hayes raised each of his hands and held up three fingers as he turned to Scott City fans in the upper section at the Hugoton High School gymnasium.

The raised fingers had nothing to do with his match and the cheering wasn’t just for Hayes.

A poster that was being waved by team bus driver Jan Tucker showed what this moment was about.

With the 36-28 team win over Ulysses, head coach Jon Lippelmann earned his 300th duel victory (on Feb. 7, 2015) as the head coach at SCHS, putting him in the No. 7 spot among wrestling coaches in Kansas high school history.

The Beavers had picked up win No. 299 against Goodland (42-33) in the opening round of the Great West Activities Conference duel tournament. With an 18-6 scoring run in the five matches leading into the heavyweight bout, the Beavers had built a 33-28 lead over Ulysses.

However, Hayes knew that Austin Ochoa was a dangerous opponent. In addition, Ochoa had defeated the SCHS senior the two previous times they met this season.

“He’s a roller. If he can trap your hand he’ll put you to your back,” said Hayes. “He nearly caught me with that a couple of times, but I managed to get out.”

The match was tied 4-4 in the third period when Hayes was able to turn Ochoa to his back for a three-point near fall on his way to a 7-4 win.

“I knew that as long as I didn’t get pinned Lip would still get his 300th (win), but that’s not how I wanted him to get it,” Hayes said. “Once I got on top and was able to control (Ochoa) late in the match I knew I was going to get the win. That felt good, but I was glad to get it done for Coach Lippelmann.”

“This was one of those oncein-a-lifetime moments,” he added.

30-Year Career For Lippelmann, it was a once-in-a-lifetime moment that was 30 years in the making. The SCHS head coaching job was the first and only of his career that began with the 1984-85 season.

“Longevity has something to do with it,” acknowledges Lippelmann. “To get all 300 right here in Scott City makes this even more special.”

Lippelmann becomes just the seventh coach in Kansas High School wrestling history to reach 300 duel wins, according to records compiled by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association. Six of the seven coaches are still active.

Those 300 represent not just quantity, but quality.

“A lot of those matches came during the 1980s and ‘90s against the Northwest Kansas League, which were the kings of the mat,” says Lippelmann, himself a NWKL product who graduated from Oberlin.

Lippelmann’s teams have also captured four state championships - three in Class 4A

Members of the SCHS team who were part of head coach Jon Lippelmann’s 300th career win were (kneeling, from left) Trey Loftis, Wyatt Eitel, James Jurgens and Lane Hayes. (Standing) bus driver Jan Tucker, assistant coach Aaron Dirks, Cooper Griffith, Tre Stewart, Abe Wiebe, Baron Strine, Jarret Jurgens, Zach Tucker, Ethan Ford, Wyatt Kropp, Nic Cheney, Pierre Portes, Jon Lippelmann, Garrett Osborn, Marilyn LIppelmann and assistant coach Brice Eisenhour.

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(1990, 1994, 2004) and the oth- Colby and Goodland where his er in Class 3A (2012). wrestlers can get a lot of matches in a short time.

Duel Numbers Vary “That kind of mat experiBecause of the unique nature ence is golden, especially if you of wrestling there is no guaran- have a lot of boys with experitee as to how many duels a team ence,” says Lippelmann. “But will have during a season. Lip- when you have a young squad, pelmann likes that flexibility like we’ve had the last couple since it allows him to build a of years, it can be pretty devschedule that fits his team. astating to a kids confidence to In some years, the Beavers wrestle between five and seven have had 18 duels. This year matches in a one or two day they had just nine. period and lose most of them.

“In years like this, if you It doesn’t give us enough time aren’t winning a lot of your du- to work with them and correct els, it’s going to take awhile to things. get to 300,” he noted.

“It kills the kid’s motivation When SCHS has an experi- and desire and then it becomes enced squad that can fill most of a very long season for them and the weight classes, Lippelmann for us.” has no hesitation about comAdding to the difficulty in peting in duel tournaments at getting duel wins is the inability

to fill all 14 weight classes with a roster that, in recent years, has only averaged about 20 wrestlers. This year, for example, the Beavers have three open weight classes and have inexperienced grapplers stepping into a couple of other weights.

“It’s tough to get (duel) wins when you’re giving up 18 to 24 points,” Lippelmann noted.

“That’s why we got out of a couple of the duel tournaments for awhile. You want to put your kids in a situation where they can feel successful when they come off the mat.”

The SCHS coach grew up in the heyday of duel wrestling in northwest Kansas when duel matches between schools were the big event. (see 300 WIN on page 31)

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Glenn O’Neil

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6 state titles, 3 runners-up put him at the head of the class Scott Community High School’s proud history includes countless great teams and several outstanding coaches.

But Glenn O’Neil is at the head of the class.

It’s not even up for debate.

He’s the winningest football coach in SCHS history (87-13) and is miles ahead of anyone else as the winningest basketball coach (352-106).

He even has the vote of Dave Dunham who coached the Beavers to three state football titles and a runner-up finish between 1988-94.

“When you think of what Coach O’Neil has done in two sports and the championships that his teams have won, you have to think of him as the best coach to come through Scott City,” says Dunham (81-17) who holds the No. 2 spot in football victories.

Former SCHS football coach Larry Huck, who coached the Beavers to a pair of unbeaten seasons, considers O’Neil and Dunham two of the best coaches to come through Scott City.

“I rate Glenn on the same level as Dave. He’s a smart man

SCHS Football Coaching History Coach Glenn O’Neil Bill Arnold Brent Glann George Caine Dave Dunham Ken Caywood Mark Wiens Phil Hower Larry Huck Dean Barnes Bill Blaesi Joe Monatowa Marvin Campbell Earl Reed James Finley Marvin Killfoil Gerhardt Eikerman Merten Pettey Otis Darner L.O. Opdycke Kirby Huefle Cleveland Total

Years 2007-13 2000-06 1998-99 1995-97 1986-94 1978-85 1977 1972-76 1965-71 1964 1959-63 1950-58 1948-49 1944-47 1943 1942 1937-40 1935-36 1927-34 1924-26 1922 1921 1920

W 87 56 12 15 81 50 2 29 46 3 29 52 4 12 1 2 13 6 46 8 3 5 5 554

Record L T 13 17 7 11 17 22 7 18 15 2 6 13 3 28 1 13 1 22 3 6 1 7 22 2 9 3 10 11 13 3 5 3 3 286 30

SCHS football head coach Glenn O’Neil has compiled an 87-13 record during his eight seasons in Scott City.

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who knows what will work or won’t work. He always has a play or two in his hip pocket that hasn’t been used for a year, or maybe even two years,” says Huck.

All three coaches will be among those recognized during the All-School reunion and they are among five coaches who will be featured on football panels honoring those coaches who have had undefeated seasons.

In all, there are 20 panels that will be unveiled during a

ceremony on Saturday afternoon recognizing SCHS achievements in sports.

There will be a noon meal for current and former SCHS coaches and their families, followed by the unveiling of plaques in the Main Street corridor of the high school.

At the conclusion of that ceremony, everyone will move to the high school gym where there will be additional recognition given to SCHS coaches and teams.

All-School Reunion Committee organizers have heard from many past coaches who plan to be in attendance during the weekend.

Only Dunham, O’Neil and Jon Lippelmann (wrestling) have led the Beavers to more than one state title in any sport.

Dunham and O’Neil are the only coaches to win state championships in more than one sport - Dunham in football and track; O’Neil in football and basketball.

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the 1966 Beavers. However, they had to survive a 34-32 scare from Dighton in a game which featured 867 yards of offense.

One of the seniors on that squad was Shorty Lawrence, whom Huck describes as “a whale of a football player.”

Lawrence had touchdown runs of 44 and 20 yards to go along with a 78 yard kickoff return to start the second half. Scott City had to overcome a 32-27 fourth quarter deficit with Lawrence’s final TD run.

In their eighth game of the season, SCHS and Ulysses were locked in a scoreless game with less than a minute remaining.

Ulysses had just punted to the Beavers and on the next play Lawrence caught a screen pass from quarterback Tom McCollum for a 64 yard score.

“Randall Schwanke and Steve Geist each had big blocks and Shorty was able to run down our sideline for the score,” says Huck. “That 1966 team was an exceptional team. It was a state championship caliber team.

And the next team was also very good.”

Even with the success that the SCHS program enjoyed during his era, and in the years afterwards, Huck acknowledges it was former head coach Dave Dunham who took Scott City football to the next level, winning state titles in 1988, 1990 and 1991, along with a state runner-up finish in 1994.

“The 1994 team was probMemorable Years If the former coach had to ably as good as any team I’ve give an edge to one of the two ever seen in all my years here,” undefeated teams, it might be says Huck.

He declined and continued as an assistant for new head coach Dean Barnes.

In their one and only season under Barnes, the Beavers struggled through a 3-6 season.

Barnes resigned in order to accept the head coaching position at Emporia High School, so when Huck was asked again the following year to be the head coach there was no hesitation.

Following a 5-4 campaign in his first season, Huck and his Beavers were undefeated in 1966 and 1967. The Beavers were ranked No. 6 in the final Topeka Capital-Journal rankings in 1966 (there were only three school classifications: Class AA, Class A and Class B. During a stretch that began during the 1965 season and continued into the 1968 season, Scott City won 27 consecutive games.

Just as today, the weight program is a foundation to a successful program. Huck and assistant coach Don Krebs constructed some apparatus in the former fieldhouse (which had just been built at the time) which made it possible to do bench presses, leg presses, etc.

“That was our first weight program in Scott City,” notes Huck. “I knew if we were going to compete against the Goodlands and the Colbys we had to have a weight program. Those schools didn’t have a weight program either at the time, but they had more kids.”

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Speer was ‘total package’ as 3-time wrestling champ Athletes are sometimes referred to as the “total package.”

Gerrad Speer was never the kind of athlete to make that claim, but if there ever was a total package in high school wrestling, Speer would qualify.

Strength. Power. Quickness. Brains.

When it came to wrestling, the Scott Community High School standout had all the qualities needed be a champion. Not only did he have the qualities, he had the medals as proof.

He is among only a handful of wrestlers in Kansas high school history to win three state championships.

After winning the 189-pound title as a sophomore, he put together back-to-back undefeated seasons as a junior and senior and claimed two more titles in the 215-pound class. In fact, you could have added “determined” as part of Speer’s total package.

As a freshman he was hampered by a nerve problem in his neck that would cause his arm to unexpectedly go numb, along with a pulled ligament in his left shoulder. He still qualified for state and finished with a 12-5 record.

He had to battle through early season thumb surgery as a sophomore and undergo rehabilitation from surgery to repair an ACL that sidelined him through the first half of his junior season. He still posted 28-1 and 23-0 records, respectively.

It wasn’t until his senior year that Speer was able to enjoy an injury-free season during his high school career and he responded by putting together a 40-0 record - giving him a career mark of 103-6.

That’s the kind of career that legends are built on, but Speer was reluctant to see himself in that way.

“I don’t think of what I’ve done as leaving a legacy. Someone else might think so. I just went out there one year at a time and I ended up with three state championships,” says Speer.

“To win a state championship was my goal each year and I got it.”

The first championship was special “because it was the first,” says the SCHS senior. The second championship was somewhat lost between the thrill of the first and the expectation of winning a third.

“The pressure began right away with everyone wanting to know if I was going to get a third (championship),” Speer notes. “The first one was the best feeling one. The last one was the most meaningful.”

The pressure was something that he began to feel early on Saturday of his final state tournament.

“During my first two years, I was nervous probably about 15 minutes before the championship match. This time I was nervous all day.”

In fact, the idea of going through a season undefeated - which Speer accomplished twice - was secondary to winning a state championship.

Head coach Jon Lippelmann acknowledges what Speer meant to the SCHS program.

“He’s kind of an icon,” he says with a smile.

“He made everyone feel a little more brave. He gave the team an attitude.”

“Gerrad is a special kind of athlete. He had speed, quickness, power and the drive to get what he wanted,” Lippelmann adds.

The respect between coach and athlete is mutual.

“You go through high school and compete for different coaches, but I don’t think any of them match Lip. The man’s emotions fluctuate so much you don’t know whether to like him or to hate him,” jokes Speer.

“He took care of us. He made us do what we needed to get our goals done. He make us better wrestlers.”

Icon. Legacy. Total package. Any, or all three, descriptions apply to Speer, plus one more - irreplaceable.

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Statue is a tribute to fan’s unwavering support

How do you capture the meaning of a word - its significance to a school or a community - in a single image?

“It’s a daunting task,” admitted sculptor Jerry Thomas when he unveiled his sculpture “Tradition” prior to Scott Community High School’s first home game of the 2012 season.

“The tradition of Scott Community High School football runs deep and it touches so many people that it can be difficult to capture its meaning in a single image. Hopefully, we’ve accomplished that.”

Thomas, a SCHS graduate and former football player, has earned a reputation for his award-winning artwork, many of which are featured in his gallery located in Scott City. “Tradition,” however, was his first bronze sculpture.

He was commissioned to do the work in memory of Ryan Haxton, a 2002 SCHS graduate who died of Batten’s Disease on Jan. 12, 2010, at the age of 26.

“I’m indebted to Rod and Kathy (Haxton) for giving me this opportunity. I always wanted to do a sculpture and I knew that someday I would, but to do something this special for their family and for Scott City, which has meant so much to me, was something I couldn’t pass up,” Thomas said during the ceremony.

Prior to the sculpture’s unveiling, Activities Director Randy Huck, also a former SCHS graduate and football player, talked about Scott City’s football tradition. He mentioned the contributions of former head coaches Larry Huck, who guided the Beavers to back-to-back undefeated seasons (1966-67) in the pre-playoff era; Phil Hower, who coached the team to its first playoff appearance; and Dave Dunham, who coached the Beavers to three state titles (1988, 1990, 1991).

He also credited recent coaches Bill Arnold and Glenn O’Neil with continuing that legacy.

“As fans, we’ve come to expect this kind of success year after year. But it’s the result of a lot of hard work,” says Huck. “And it’s because we have established a winning tradition.”

And he told about Ryan’s unwavering support for the Beavers, cheering them on from the sideline throughout the game.

“There was no doubt that, had he been able to, he would have rather been on the field with his classmates,” says Huck.

From the time he was nine-years-old, Ryan was a fixture on the sideline. When not attending the School for the Blind in Kansas City, he would be walking alongside his father who was covering games for The Record. He continued attending games following graduation from SCHS until his health no longer made it possible.

While the sculpture came about as a memorial to Ryan, it’s supposed to be a reminder to SCHS football players of what they are representing, emphasized Haxton.

“The words on the base of the statue were chosen for a purpose.

The name of the sculpture - Tradition - speaks for itself,” said Haxton.

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Bryan Hines as he appeared when preparing for the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Scott City athlete wins Olympic bronze One former Scott Community High School athlete has the distinction of not only competing on the Summer Olympics, but coming away with a bronze medal.

Little is known about Bryan Hines except that he was born in 1896 in Morehead, Ky., and moved with his family to Scott City. At the age of 68 he died in Flagstaff, Ariz.

Hines attended Northwestern University where he was a standout wrestlers from 192224. He was undefeated during his junior year and won the Big 10 championship. The following season he successfully defended his conference title

and added a NCAA championship - the first in Wildcat wrestling history.

He was expected to be a top contender for a gold medal at the 1924 Olympics in Paris.

However, there are two accounts as to why Hines instead had to settle for a bronze medal. One account says he was overweight when he arrived in Paris and worked so hard to lose weight that he was very weak when the tournament began. Another account had him wrestling with a sprained ankle.

Following his return from Paris, Hines coached at NU during the 1926 season.

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“By the time we got to the championship game we were down to one pitcher,” says Bailey.

The result was a loss to Nickerson in the Class 4A title game.

(8-1) led the team to a 19-5 record. His only loss came in the opening round of the Class 4A tournament by a 15-2 score against Topeka Hayden.

A small strike zone and frustration combined to force an early exit by Miller.

“Hayden did a better job than our boys of recognizing they were getting the benefit of a small strike zone,” said head coach Bill Arnold. “Their batters were very patient.”

Two SCHS pitchers have been drafted by major league baseball teams.

Brittan was drafted by the New York Mets and Miller by the Dodgers. Each played in the minor leagues for several years.

Hacky sack incident ended Scott City’s best title hopes Injuries are a part of sports.

Every coach and athlete accepts that.

And then there’s the hacky sack incident. It goes down in baseball lore as a big reason why Scott Community High School doesn’t have a championship banner.

It was the 1993 season and SCHS had finally earned their first-ever trip to the Class 4A state tournament with a topflight pitching rotation that included right-handers Corey Brittan and Josh Bailey along with southpaws Shannon Roberts and Brandon Parkinson.

“By the end of the season we’d become a pretty darn good pitching staff. I don’t know of

anyone in the state who could match our depth,” says Bailey, who was a junior on that squad.

Then the unthinkable happened. Only five or 10 minutes after getting off the bus in Manhattan where the state tournament was being played, Roberts saw his season end with a broken kneecap which occurred while playing hacky sack in the motel parking lot.

“With four great pitchers and only three games, you like your chances,” Bailey recalls.

Even with three pitchers, Scott City might have been able to get by. But Bailey had to pitch eight innings in relief in the opening game and in the second game they escaped with a 3-2 win.

Learning Experience Getting to state the first time was a huge step for the SCHS program that had been coached

by Gaylon Walter since it started in 1987.

“We finally realized what it took to get to state and that we were good enough,” Bailey says.

“Even though I don’t think our team was as good in 1994, we played with more confidence.”

The pitching staff consisted

primarily of Bailey and Jaime Vallejo who, in most games, would split time on the mound.

In the state tournament Bailey pitched a complete game 4-1 win over DeSoto in the opener and SCHS nearly blew a 5-0 lead in the second game before escaping with a 5-4 win over Bonner Springs.

Making their second consecutive trip to the title game, SCHS was shutout by top-seeded Spring Hill, 4-0.

The Beavers have made five more trips to the state tournament, but the only other time they placed was in 1998 when they were fourth.

The best season in SCHS history came in 2006 when top pitching prospect Justin Miller

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Andale Scott City went on to defeat Riverton in the championship game, 48-32.

That kind of success only builds greater expectations.

“The first championship was sweet,” Dunham says. “After that, you aren’t satisfied. If you don’t get there you feel like you did something wrong.”

And he’s also learned that sometimes your best teams don’t win state titles. The 1994 team was, arguably, the most talented in SCHS history.

“We had teams with size and we had teams with speed. That was the only time we combined the two,” says the former head coach.

Perhaps the most memo-

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rable game during that season came on a Saturday afternoon in Wichita when the Beavers (ranked No. 1 in Class 4A) faced Wichita Collegiate (ranked No. 1 in Class 3A). This was one of the most anticipated games in the state that season - not only because it brought together two No. 1 ranked teams, but it also featured Collegiate star runningback DeAngelo Evans.

A beautiful Saturday afternoon attracted several thousand fans from around the Wichita area along with the typical huge following of SCHS fans.

“That was the best atmosphere I’ve ever experienced for a high school game,” Dunham says.

Though he probably wasn’t thinking about the atmosphere after his Beavers fell behind early in the game, 10-0.

The rest of the game was dominated by the SCHS defense along with a spectacular performance by senior runningback Curtis Eitel who stole the spotlight from Evans with 316 yards rushing and four touchdowns.

“Going into that game, DeAngelo was the only back who ever scared me on film. We knew we would have to be solid on defense in order to stop him,” Dunham says. “Who could have known we would be the only team to hold him under 100 yards?”

The Beavers were 11-1 head-

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ing into a rain-soaked state title game against Paola.

“The day before the championship game it was a beautiful day, but we knew the weather was moving in. You always wonder how things might have turned out different if it would have been a nice day,” Dunham says. “It sure would have been nice to find out.”

SCHS led 8-6 after the opening period, but it was Paola who came away with a 28-8 win, led by their fullback and future college All-American Brian Shay.

Even though Dunham has three state titles to his credit, he has nothing but high praise for current SCHS head coach Glenn O’Neil.

“He’s proven that he is the best coach at this level that I’ve ever known. To win at football as consistently as he has without giving up anything for basketball is pretty amazing,” Dunham says. “I think he’s done something that is unprecedented to my knowledge.”

“There’s no doubt that he’s a very intelligent coach. I don’t know another coach who can even come close to have this kind of success in back to back sports. I just love to watch his teams.”

And even though he hasn’t been on the SCHS sideline for 18 years, Dunham still follows the Beavers and is frequently seen at state playoff games.

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Gruver Three of Kirkpatrick’s silver medals in the state track meet came in the 300m hurdles - each time finishing behind BasehorLinwood’s Dawn Steele who still holds the state meet record in the 200m.

“Luckily she was a year older than me so I finally had my chance to win,” says Kirkpatrick.

Tough Senior Year After enjoying phenomenal success during her first three seasons of high school track, Kirkpatrick wasn’t just looking for gold medals during her senior year. Her focus was on state records with the triple jump at the top of that list.

Since her sophomore year was the first time for the triple

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jump at state, Kirkpatrick’s winning leap was, of course, a state record. She had a career best and state meet record of 38-6 the following year.

“I wanted to be the first girl in Kansas to jump more than 40 feet,” she recalls.

While winning four gold medals for the first time in her career was certainly a possibility, Gruver tried not to focus too much on that possibility.

“Sure, that was a goal, but you don’t know who else is out there, whether there’s some phenom who will have a great day,” she says. “I tried to focus more on setting personal goals, not necessarily goals that were about winning gold medals.”

Kirkpatrick was determined to enter her senior season in the greatest shape of her life and

her off-season training program nearly took a toll from which she couldn’t recover. Her workout regimen included strength training, plyometrics and lots of running.

“I ended up with an injury from overtraining. It was my own fault. I was doing more than the coaches were aware of,” she says. “After practice I’d run another three or four miles and the coaches didn’t know about it.”

The result was a painful knee injury that caused her to miss the first few meets of the season, including the KU Relays. It wasn’t until she made a recruiting visit to the University of Nebraska and told the training staff what she was going through that they quickly analyzed the injury and offered a solution. She was

State Track and Field Accomplishments Year

Event

Individual Finish

Team Finish

Freshman

Long Jump 400m 100m High Hurdles 300m Low Hurdles

1st 2nd 1st 2nd

2nd

Sophomore

Triple Jump Long Jump 100m High Hurdles 300m Low Hurdles

1st 1st 1st 2nd

1st

Junior

Triple Jump Long Jump 100m High Hurdles 300m Low Hurdles

1st 1st 1st 2nd

2nd

Senior

Triple Jump Long Jump 100m High Hurdles 300m Low Hurdles

1st 1st 1st 1st

3rd

diagnosed with iliotibial band syndrome and the NU trainer cut out a small triangle of foam, placed it in the heal of Kirkpat-

rick’s shoe “and the pain was gone.”

“That allowed me to have a season,” she says.

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4 Rings 69-47 win over Medicine Lodge in the sub-state finals.

In O’Neil’s 19-year coaching career at SCHS, the Beavers have had just one losing season (2003-04, 9-12).

Incredible Run But the best was still to come.

The Beavers were preparing for an outstanding run that most programs in the state can only dream about.

The 2011 team, on which future Wichita State University star Ron Baker was a starter, captured the first of four state championships within a five year span. Scott City defeated Wichita Collegiate in the semifinals, ending the Spartans hopes for a three-peat. In the finals, Baker grabbed a rebound of a missed shot and drove to the basket for a follow-up that gave SCHS a thrilling 55-53 win over Minneapolis.

That same nucleus remained intact for tournament titles during each of the next two seasons, giving the Beavers the first-ever three-peat title winner in Class 3A. With most of the team departing due to graduation, the

300 Win “Everyone wanted to see their town’s wrestling team compete against another team.

It was something that guys would talk about all week,” recalls Lippelmann. “A lot of farmers were former wrestlers,

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Beavers still managed to get back to the Class 4A-Division II championship game the following season where they lost to Eudora. SCHS finished off their tremendous five-year state tournament run when they returned to Class 3A earlier this year and defeated Collegiate for the state title.

During this five-year span, O’Neil’s teams have posted a 121-8 record.

“The first (championship) is always special because it’s the first. The other four were all special in their own way,” O’Neil says. “We had one group that overachieved (2011), three teams that were supposed to win (2006, 2012 and 2013) and this year’s team which we knew could be really good, but we knew nothing would come easy.

“I think it demands a lot of young athletes when you’re a favorite because so much is expected of you and you have to carry that throughout the season,” he says. “There’s always the prospect of running against teams who have equal talent and depth and coaching abilities, so you’re asking a lot of kids who are mostly 16- and 17-years-old.

“To respond to that kind of O’Neil also makes sure that pressure that you put on yourself his athletes understand the and that you feel from the com- importance of every minute. munity is asking a lot.”

“He has a written schedule and we follow it the entire prac‘Good Fortune’ tice,” Meyer says. “If our water O’Neil tends to downplay his break is a couple of minutes part in the program’s consistent longer than scheduled, we hear level of excellence, referring to about it.” it as “good fortune.”

In addition, O’Neil has a Anyone who has played for “phrase of the day” that he starts O’Neil or against him knows each practice with and the playbetter. ers have to repeat it at the con“It doesn’t matter whether it’s clusion of practice. football or basketball, whoever He has a phrase of the day. we’re playing against we know At the end of the day we have to that coach will have a plan,” tell him what that phrase is. says 2015 senior Brett Meyer.

“It’s a phrase that has to do The planning begins during with preparation for the next practice where Coach O’Neil is game,” Meyer says. “Every day always prepared for the day’s is a different quote, a Bible verse workout. Actually, it begins dur- or something to get us thinking ing the summer. about what we need to do to be “The work ethic that he better prepared.” expects from us begins from the Even when taking a long first minute you step into the road trip to playoff games at weight room as a freshman,” Norton, Phillipsburg and Hays, says 2015 senior Chantz Yager. everything is on schedule - from “Coach O’Neil and Coach (Jim) lunch to other roadside stops.

Turner make us go hard every “That kind of attention to single minute in the weight planning shows that he knows room. I feel lucky to have what he’s doing,” Yager says. coaches who were constantly pushing us and expecting more Playing With Confidence out of me than I thought was That belief in the coaching possible.” staff and the game plan contrib-

utes to Scott City’s confidence that they are better than their opponent - any opponent.

“We believe in how our coaches have prepared us and we trust in the guys around us,” says Yager. “We aren’t scared of anyone or anything. We weren’t afraid of playing Collegiate in football or basketball. You can’t be scared and expect to win.”

However, O’Neil emphasizes that senior leadership is essential to any team’s success.

“These boys played with a chip on their shoulder after coming up short in state championship games in football and basketball,” says O’Neil. “The boys are pretty demanding on their teammates as well. Trey (O’Neil) and Sloan (Baker) weren’t afraid to speak out while Brett has always been one to lead by example.

“Sloan was the warrior on the inside. Even though he was often undersized, he’s not afraid to mix it up with bigger guys and battle for rebounds or block shots. Plus, he and Trey play with a lot of emotion.

“You put all of those aspects together and these boys became a team that knew how to win.”

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so they’d fill up their pickups with 36-cent-per-gallon gas and drive to the matches because they wanted to see their town’s heavyweight beat the other town’s. It was a community thing.”

Now gas is $3 or $4 a gallon and some teams are having more difficulty filling their rosters. Hoxie, for example - one of the elite programs in Class 3-2-1A history - has just two wrestlers this season.

While duels will always be a part of wrestling, it’s far more common to have 4-6 teams squaring off against each other in a single day than it is to have two teams facing each other on a Friday night.

“You have to be willing to

adapt,” adds Lippelmann. “You do whatever it takes to make your program stronger and to teach your kids how to be successful.”

With 300 wins . . . and counting . . . Lippelmann has found a way to continue doing both.

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