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AVON HIGH SCHOOL WELCOMES TWO NEW BASKETBALL COACHES

BONDS OF BROTHERHOOD

Russell Broughton Talks Military Career and Post-Service Life ROOM TO GROW

Avon Schools Plans for Continued Enrollment Growth

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People debate whether love at first sight is real, but Drew Schauss knows that it’s true because he experienced it firsthand. Growing up in high school gymnasiums watching his father coach varsity basketball, he fell hard and fast. “Basketball is my love at first sight,” says Schauss, who was an all-state star in the sport, earning a scholarship to play at Brevard College in North Carolina, then later at Bethel University in Mishawaka, Indiana.

AVON HIGH SCHOOL WELCOMES TWO NEW BASKETBALL COACHES

For six years he was the assistant coach at a small college, and then he became the head boys basketball coach at Logansport High School until he recently landed the head boys basketball coaching job at Avon High School (AHS). He applied for the position because he was intrigued by the amount of growth

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Avon has experienced in recent years. The school itself has expanded tremendously in the last 20 years and is projected to grow more in the next 10 to 15 years. “You don’t often have the opportunity to take over a program that’s experiencing that kind of growth, and then you add to that the number of successful athletics,” says Schauss, noting that a lot of the programs have been successful, particularly football, volleyball, baseball, track and swimming. Basketball has been on the cusp for a while, with the team having won a sectional in 2017. When it comes to building a successful team, one of the first things Schauss does is demonstrate the importance of community. Therefore, he and his players cheer on other Avon sports by attending games as a team. Attending these games, matches and meets not only builds camaraderie, but also shows the Avon student body that everyone on the basketball team supports them. When his players are perfecting their own skills, they give it their all, always leaving it all out on the court. Schauss enjoys seeing their hard work pay off. “People don’t see the practices, the workouts and what they do in the weight room, so to watch these students go out and perform well at a high level - I love the excitement on their faces,” Schauss says.

“I THINK PEOPLE WILL ENJOY WATCHING US PLAY. THEY’LL BE ABLE TO SEE THE ENERGY AND EFFORT THE TEAM BRINGS. THIS IS A REALLY LIKABLE GROUP OF ATHLETES THAT PEOPLE WILL GET ON THEIR FEET AND CHEER FOR.” -DREW SCHAUSS-

Another new hire at AHS athletics is the girls basketball coach, Will Staal, who grew up on the north side of Indianapolis. He got involved in sports early on, playing in recreational leagues, and developed a love of coaching when he was in high school. When Staal was in elementary school, his father, who was an Indianapolis police officer, worked the NCAA Final Four in 2000. Before the games started, his dad asked him which school’s T-shirt he would like. Staal said Wisconsin. It turned out that the Badgers shirts were sold out, so his dad brought home a Michigan State 8 / AVON MAGAZINE / JANUARY 2022 / TownePost.com

Spartans shirt. “MSU ended up winning the national title,” Staal says. “It’s weird to think that if they’d had an adult small or a youth large in Wisconsin, I might not have been a Michigan State fan.” Still, deep down he’s a Hoosier through and through, and since he had aspirations to coach basketball, there is no better place for him to be. His coaching career has taken him all over the state, including Westfield, Fishers, Waldron, and Terre Haute South Vigo high schools. He enjoyed those coaching gigs, but when he saw that AHS was hiring, applying was a no-brainer. “I’m not lying when I say I feel like I have the best job in the state, in terms of possibility,” he says. He was pleased to join the faculty at the end of May in 2021 so that he had June

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the team, providing them with a firm foundation going into the fall and the regular season. All summer long they had workouts and shootouts, as well as two weeks of running a kids camp.

with students well before they enter high school. That’s why Staal and his colleagues coach the Indy Girls Hoops League, a travel basketball team for third- through eighth-grade girls.

“It was an immersive experience,” he says. “You can’t win a state title or sectional title in the summer, but you sure can lose one.”

“That’s what you have to do to be successful or even have a chance to compete in our conference,” Staal says. “You’ve got to be proactive in participating in youth programs in order to build that foundation.”

Spring 2020 athletes missed out on fellowship, problem solving, and many lessons that are the bedrock of high school athletics. Now coaches are seeing students come in who need to be caught up in these areas.

Both Staal and Schauss were hired at the end of what, in many ways, was a stressful year. The pandemic did, however, provide a fresh perspective on life, sports and the way the two work together.

“If anything, the pandemic has taught coaches to take a step back, breathe and give people grace,” Staal says. “We tend to look at players as athletes, but they are still growing children. I’m glad that the spotlight has been put on their mental well-being because our job, first and foremost, is to keep these children safe.”

Both Staal and Schauss are all about creating a positive atmosphere that will enable their athletes to make lifelong connections and memories. “People won’t remember our record, but they’ll remember how our team treats people,” Staal says. “As for the students, they’ll remember how they felt hanging out as a team and that’s the biggest part.” Building a high school program includes

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of 2003 he was deployed to Afghanistan. Before that, in April of 2003, he married Kristi, whom he had known since high school.

Center, where he stayed for two months.

Though there was a level of fear in re-enlisting for a fourth deployment, Broughton wanted to serve his country for In total, Broughton served four tours in Iraq. as long as he was physically able to do so. His first deployment was 14 months long. “I can’t say my wife was overjoyed that I re“When I came back, the Army was enlisted after I was hurt,” says Broughton, reshuffling how they did things, organizing who was gone four out of the first eight “My mom’s dad was in the Air Force and their combat teams as they were trying to years they were married. was a Morse code guy,” Broughton says. “My figure out how to deal with two wars at one dad’s dad was infantry in World War II so I time,” Broughton says. Broughton was in a wheelchair at first as he was intrigued.” rehabbed his way back to mobility. When He got back in October of 2004 and was he was stationed in California in 2013, he Broughton joined the Army on September deployed again in June of 2005. A year later struggled physically because the infantry is a 3, 2001, just eight days before 9/11 rocked in June of 2006, he was riding in a vehicle strenuous job that requires a lot of running our world. when it was hit by an improvised explosive and carrying. device. Unconscious for an hour and a half, “That changed the whole scope of my he then remained hospitalized in Iraq for “My injuries caught up to me and I could career,” says Broughton, who graduated two weeks. When he redeployed for the no longer physically do what I used to, so from basic training in January of 2002, then third time, he was once again injured when I decided to get my hip fixed,” Broughton went to Airborne School at Fort Benning says. a truck bomb was driven through the front where he learned how to jump out of an gate of his base and detonated. Broughton airplane. Following that training, he was He was thrown a curveball, however, when fractured his pelvis and was medevacked stationed in New York, and in September routine blood work revealed that he had to Walter Reed National Military Medical After graduating from high school, Russell Broughton went to Indiana State University for a year, but he never really felt like college was a great fit. Then one day, out of the blue, an Army recruiter called and encouraged him to enlist.

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focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a condition in which filters in one’s kidneys wear down and stop working. In short, his kidneys were functioning at 40%. “This was a huge surprise,” says Broughton, who was just 32 at the time. Once he learned how sick he was, surgery to fix his hip was off the table. The doctor told him it was a matter of time before his kidneys failed. Because the condition was irreversible, in December of 2013 Broughton was medically retired from the Army. By March of 2014, he was extremely ill. “I was exhausted and nauseated every day,” Broughton says. “My ankles and calves swelled because I was retaining fluid, and my skin was gray.” In May of 2014 he started dialysis at a veterans hospital, where he was the youngest patient by 25 years. “Dialysis is way more difficult than anything I ever did in the Army,” Broughton says. Though he desperately needed a new kidney, he wouldn’t let his wife be a donor because he knew his condition could be passed on,

and he wanted to be sure that if one of his daughters had issues, Kristi could potentially be a good match. His parents and several friends got tested, but no luck. In February of 2015 he got an infection in his port and ended up in the hospital with sepsis. Within two days, he was at death’s door. He was on a transplant list, but he knew full well how many people die while awaiting a transplant. Though it was a long shot, he posted a plea on Facebook requesting a donor. “It was my Hail Mary pass,” he says. His condition improved enough for him to be discharged from the hospital, but he was still hurting greatly. Three months passed and then one day a man named Andrew Coughlan, another Army veteran who had served with him during his first deployment, contacted him. “I saw your post on Facebook,” Coughlan said at the time. “I’ve been doing these tests without you knowing, because I didn’t want you to get your hopes up. Turns out, I’m a match.”

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The two men had been in the same company but had served on different missions. They didn’t go to basic training together or serve in the same platoon. Still, despite not being close, they were brothers. Coughlan told Broughton that during the motor attack that left Broughton wounded, Coughlan’s sergeant passed away, but not before shielding Coughlan with his body, thus saving Coughlan’s life. Donating his kidney to a fellow soldier was his way of paying it forward. In May of 2016, Coughlan flew up from Florida for the transplant. “It immediately took and I’ve had no issues,” says Broughton, who couldn’t be more thankful for Coughlan’s selflessness. “He saved my life and provided me with the ability to see my kids grow up.” His girls, Abigail and Sophia, are now 17 and 13 respectively. During his time in the military, he received two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star Medal, a high-level honor given for outstanding leadership.

Though Broughton will forever appreciate the brotherhood of the military, he admits that it was difficult trying to be a father and a husband while also having to go to war. “I had to come home to my daughters and wife and be kind and attentive to their needs, then a week later go into a war zone and make split-second decisions that could cost somebody their life,” Broughton says. “It’s almost like I had to be two people.” Serving in a war undoubtedly affects anyone, and often soldiers feel like they have to stuff down their emotions despite struggling on the inside. “For me personally, I’ve lost just as many soldier friends to suicide as I have to combat,” Broughton says. “It’s been seven years I’ve been out of the military, and friends are still taking their lives.” He describes the infantry as a proud division whose members are often reluctant to seek help. “It was frowned upon to ask for help years ago, but people are now realizing this is a huge problem,” Broughton says. “It took me getting blown through a wall and fracturing my pelvis to admit that I have some issues I needed to talk about. It shouldn’t take something catastrophic to reach out for mental health help.” As he was getting dialysis, he went back to school to earn his college degree. Now he’s a staff accountant at the Kemper CPA Group. He’s also a homebody who enjoys watching movies and spending time with family. “I’m not a fan of crowds,” Broughton says. “That was true even before COVID.” As for future plans, mostly he’s just excited to watch his kids grow up. “Kristi and I put everything we have into our daughters,” Broughton says. “That’s what matters most.”

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In an era when most school districts in Indiana are managing decreased enrollment, administrators at Avon Schools are taking action to plan for and remain ahead of steady growth.

• District enrollment has grown by 1,900 students since 2011 and is projected to grow by approximately 2,000 students in the next decade. • Enrollment at Avon High School is projected to eclipse 4,000 in the 20282029 school year. • The Town of Avon and Washington Township are growing rapidly, attracting businesses and industries, and planning multiple residential developments.

“Our vision states that we are a nationally recognized district of choice that embraces all students, and prepares them to grow and thrive for their future,” says Superintendent Scott Wyndham. “To achieve this vision, we need to create more space for additional students.” Student enrollment in Avon Schools is surging and a demographic study

District administrators have been planning to provide additional space in which to welcome more students and prepare them for the future.

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This is where enrollment growth has been felt most profoundly. Every usable space has been pressed into service to accommodate the school’s 3,400 students. In preparation for enrollment growth, the Avon Board of School Trustees has approved the design of significant expansion and renovation. While still in the design phase, this project is expected to provide approximately 40 additional classrooms, improve traffic flow inside and around the school, update structures and systems (many of which are approaching 25 years old), and renovate performing arts and athletics facilities to provide high-quality experiences for even more students. Design is underway. Once construction is approved, leaders project a completion time in summer or fall of 2024.

MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH AND SOUTH

These schools do not require more square footage to accommodate current enrollment. District leaders are watching growth trends closely to determine when these schools will require additional space.

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL EAST AND WEST

Enrollment has grown rapidly at Avon Intermediate School East and West, and portable classrooms are providing temporary relief. The Avon Board of School Trustees has approved the addition of approximately six classrooms to each school by the start of the 2024-2025 school year.

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In recent years enrollment at Avon’s elementary schools has become significantly imbalanced. District boundaries were redrawn in early 2021, and building expansions at Hickory, Maple and Sycamore elementary schools were completed in July. Making smaller elementary schools larger has helped delay the need to build

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education services to students beginning at age 3. White Oak Early Learning Center opened in July to support our youngest learners. It now houses all preschool programs under the same roof, freeing up classrooms in our six other elementary schools. White Oak opened with strong enrollment numbers and a waiting list. As renovation nears completion, there will be room to welcome additional students in coming years.

TAX AND REFERENDUM IMPACT All recent, current and upcoming projects result in a $0 increase to taxpayers, and use $0 in referendum funds. Avon Schools can finance these projects as existing debt is retired. Funds from the 2018 referendum are restricted to increasing teacher pay, improving class sizes and providing additional support for students. The referendum rate has decreased each year.

Avon is growing and changing rapidly. We are embracing the challenges and opportunities for growth so all our students can continue to belong, learn and grow.

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ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist, those referrals will be made. Austin has an extensive background in medical audiology, having spent 15 years of her career working closely with ENTs. ENTs are physicians who deal with the surgical and medical management of conditions of the head and neck. Audiologists, who are now required to have a doctor of audiology degree, are responsible for the non-medical management of hearing and balance disorders. SLA Audiology is open five days per week with early morning and evening appointments available. “A good number of our patients or their caregivers are still working, so the extended hours allow them to come without taking time off from work,” Austin says. “We also offer virtual appointments.” If a patient has devices that were purchased elsewhere that need to be reprogrammed, or would like further guidance on how to use them, they are welcome to schedule an appointment with Austin at SLA Audiology where she follows best-practice guidelines when it comes to fitting protocols. “We’re glad to develop a treatment plan regardless of where devices were purchased,” Austin says. If you or someone you love is struggling to hear, reach out to SLA Audiology for a consultation. “Successful outcomes are far greater the sooner the loss is treated, and can result in a significant improvement in overall quality of life,” Austin says.

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