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Bob Ladouceur
De La Salle High School
Impact Statement
“We’re not asking you to play a perfect game. That’s impossible. What we’re asking of you,and what you should be asking of yourself, is that you give a perfect effort.”
Biography
The choice as NHSCA National Football Coach of the Year was readily apparent this season, as Bob Ladouceur’s De La Salle squad in Concord, California has now reeled off a national record 151 wins in a row. Ladoucer’s Spartans have now won 12 consecutive California Interscholastic Federation North Coast titles.
Ledouceur lead De La Salle to five California State Bowl championships in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.
With a remarkable overall coaching record of 399–25–3, his record gave him a winning percentage of .934 and makes him the winningest football coach in the CIF history. Ladouceur resigned as the head coach in 2013, although he remained on staff as an assistant coach until the 2019 season.
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Marysville High School
“Being a good coach is a lot like being a good parent. You won’t get very far if you’re just giving love without discipline, or vice versa” -John Knuth
“Being a good coach is a lot like being a good parent. You won’t get very far if you’re just giving love without discipline, or vice versa” -John Knuth
John Knuth
Marysville High School
Impact Statement
“Being a good coach is a lot like being a good parent. You won’t get very far if you’re just giving love without discipline, or vice versa” -John Knuth
Biography
Knuth has led Marysville High to five consecutive Class B state championships, all in straight games, along with a second-place finish in 1993. In 17 years as head coach, his teams have compiled a record of 742-64-32, including a 60-1 record this season. Knuth had an incredible record of 584-9 from 1997 to 2006.
From 1996 through 2000, his teams assembled a 192-match winning streak, twice as long as the second longest streak in the Michigan record book. The team won 9 straight championships from 1997-2004. Knuth lead Marysville until 2007 and then began to co-coach.
Knuth was also the Marysville Athletic Director and has coached Track & Field for 28 years, Freshman Football for 22 years and also coached Baseball.
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T.W. Andrews High School
Morris coached both the Girls’ and Boys’ Track & Field teams to a State Championship title.
Morris coached both the Girls’ and Boys’ Track & Field teams to a State Championship title.
Neal Morris
T.W. Andrews High School
Impact Statement
Morris coached both the Girls’ and Boys’ Track & Field teams to a State Championship title.
Biography
Morris led both the boys and girls teams from T.W. Andrews High to Class 3A state titles this season. The girls’ team won four events, scoring 76 points to win the title by 23; the boys team added three event victories and scored 52 points for a 12-point margin of victory.
Morris accomplished this while engaged in a personal battle of his own, undergoing chemotherapy treatments for testicular cancer, with which he was diagnosed in mid-March.
Morris passed away December 2, 2003 at the age of 39. There is a Invitational held each year in his honor.
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Cardinal Gibbons High School
Over the course of her career she has coached 26 State Championships teams thus far.
Over the course of her career she has coached 26 State Championships teams thus far.
Jo Cabana
Cardinal Gibbons High School
Impact Statement
Over the course of her career she has coached 26 State Championships teams thus far.
Biography
In nine years as head coach, Cabana has coached Cardinal Gibbons High’s girls teams to eight Class 2A state championships, including the last four years. She has coached two individual singles players and three doubles teams to state titles. This year’s team lost just one match en route to the title. Cabana also has led the Cardinal Gibbons boys teams to the last five state titles.
In 2003 Cabana left Cardinal Gibbons and took a position at Charlotte Catholic High School in North Carolina.
Cabana led the girls’ team to a 3A Dual State Championship in 2017, 2018 and 2019. In the last two years they have been undefeated and have a 67 game winning streak. Their last loss came in August of 2017.
In her 26 year coaching career, she has a lot to boast about including 2 girls titles at St. Thomas Aquinas, eight boys and 7 girls titles at Cardinal Gibbons and nine girls titles at Charlotte Catholic.
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Carmel High School
Stopkotte coached teams to 27 titles over the duration of his career at Carmel High School in Indiana.
Stopkotte coached teams to 27 titles over the duration of his career at Carmel High School in Indiana.
Ken Stopkotte
Carmel High School
Impact Statement
Stopkotte coached teams to 27 titles over the duration of his career at Carmel High School in Indiana.
Biography
In his first year at Carmel High this year, Stopkotte coached both the boys and girls swimming teams to Indiana state titles. His girls’ team won its 15th consecutive state title, while his boys team won its eighth state title in 12 years and first since 1998. Stopkotte also has been a club coach for 15 years, most notably as head coach of the Cincinnati Marlins, the top swim club in the swimming hotbed of southwestern Ohio.
In his eight years with the Marlins, Stopkotte built the team from 100 to 225 swimmers and led them to six Top 10 finishes in the USA Swimming National Championships, 11 USA Swimming Junior National team titles, and 25 state-level team titles at the junior and senior levels. A dozen of his swimmers competed in the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials, with one earning a gold medal and another a silver medal at the Olympic Games.
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Weatherford High School
Ross has led his Softball and Football teams to success until being a Principal at Anderson-Shiro High School in 2018.
Ross has led his Softball and Football teams to success until being a Principal at Anderson-Shiro High School in 2018.
Dwayne Ross
Weatherford High School
Impact Statement
Ross has led his Softball and Football teams to success until being a Principal at Anderson-Shiro High School in 2018.
Biography
Ross led Weatherford High to a perfect 34-0 record and the Class 4A state championship in 2000. A two-sport coach, Ross also led the softball team to a second-place finish in 1999, the same year Weatherford High’s football team, for which he is an assistant coach, reached the Division I Class 4A state quarterfinals.
Ross, who teaches health and U.S. history, also is the chairman of Weatherford High’s physical education department. He has coached at Weatherford High for six years. Ross would lead Weatherford the following year to start a program at Dublin High School.
After eight seasons at Dublin, Ross announced his departure. Ross took a position at a new school, Anderson-Shiro Consolidated, in Anderson, Texas. Ross also spent five years coaching the Iola High School football team until 2018.
Ross is currently the Principal of Anderson-Shiro Junior Senior High School.
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Carmel High School
“I am so lucky to do something I love for such a long time at a great school.”
-Frank Dixon
“I am so lucky to do something I love for such a long time at a great school.”
-Frank Dixon
Frank Dixon
Carmel High School
Impact Statement
“I am so lucky to do something I love for such a long time at a great school.”
-Frank Dixon
Biography
In 10 years at Carmel High Dixon has guided his teams to the state’s Final Four nine times, winning titles in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, and 2000 and finishing second in 1996. This year’s team, which finished 22-1-1, set a state championship-game scoring record in a 5-0 victory over Chesterton High, and was not scored upon in eight state tournament series games. The team was ranked No. 1 nationally at one time during the season. Dixon’s career record is 204-7-12. Dixon was selected the state’s Coach of the Year in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, and 2000, Sectional Coach of the Year by the National Federation of Interscholastic Coaches of Athletics in 1996, 1997, and 1998, and Regional Coach of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association in 1993, 1994, and 2000.
Dixon may have been named the 2001 NHSCA Coach of the Year for girls’ soccer but it didn’t slow him down. Dixon is still leading the Greyhounds on the field and on August 20, 2018 he claimed win number 500. The girls finished the season as the State Runner Up. In 2019, Carmel made another state appearance.
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Martinsville High School
Sharon Most made the most of her career leading Martinsville to 11 State Championships and 4 Runner- Up finishes over her illustrious career.
Sharon Most made the most of her career leading Martinsville to 11 State Championships and 4 Runner- Up finishes over her illustrious career.
Sharon Most
Martinsville High School
Impact Statement
Sharon Most made the most of her career leading Martinsville to 11 State Championships and 4 Runner- Up finishes over her illustrious career.
Biography
A teacher in Martinsville High’s business department since 1976, Most has guided the girls’ golf team to nine state titles -the past six in succession and three more from 1991-93. Since taking over the girls’ golf program in 1985, Most’s teams have a dual-meet record of 161-16, and have lost just three of 120 matches since 1990, the year Martinsville began a run of 11 straight years in the top two in the state.
In the fall of 2000, Martinsville rallied from six strokes down after the first day to win its sixth straight title by 14. More than a dozen of Most’s players have gone on to earn Division I scholarships at schools such as Duke, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Michigan State, Wake Forest, and Western Kentucky.
The year after being honored, Most’s Girls placed second in the State in the fall of 2001. In addition, Martinsville tacked on another two State Championships in 2007 and 2008. Most recently, her team finished second in 2014.
Most resigned in the spring of 2017, leaving Martinsville and the state of Indiana as one of their most elite coaches.
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Warwick High School
“Love what you do! If you as a coach can demonstrate, express, exhibit love and passion for the game, it will rub off onto your players.” -Bob Derr
“Love what you do! If you as a coach can demonstrate, express, exhibit love and passion for the game, it will rub off onto your players.” -Bob Derr
Bob Derr
Warwick High School
Impact Statement
“Love what you do! If you as a coach can demonstrate, express, exhibit love and passion for the game, it will rub off onto your players.” -Bob Derr
Biography
Under Derr’s direction, Warwick High has become a field hockey powerhouse, winning Class AAA state championships in 1999 and 2000 and losing just one of 55 games over that span. Derr’s 2000 squad finished the season with a perfect 28-0 record, and its current winning streak stands at 32 straight over two years.
The 1999 team finished 26-1-1. Derr’s teams were outstanding defensively; in their title runs in 1999 and 2000, they allowed a total of one goal each year in four state tournament games. In 1998, Derr led Warwick to the state quarterfinals, and his three-year record is 77-5-1.
Derr was the first male field hockey coach in the country to amass 500 wins and he did not stop there. Derr hit win number 600 on September 24, 2018.
Derr is still actively coaching and has amassed an impressive three PIAA State Championships, six District Three Championships, 11 Lancaster-Lebanon League titles, and 14 section titles.
In addition to his success on the field, Derr is one of the elite wrestling officials in both high school and collegiate levels. He has worked 5 PIAA State Wrestling Championships and 15 NCAA National Wrestling Championships, including 13 Division I Championships.
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Woodbridge High School
“The team is much more powerful than the individual.”
-George Varvas
“The team is much more powerful than the individual.”
-George Varvas
George Varvas
Woodbridge High School
Impact Statement
“The team is much more powerful than the individual.”
-George Varvas
Biography
Varvas has been Woodbridge High’s only girls’ cross-country coach since the school opened its doors in 1980. His teams have placed high in state competition the past four years. After winning the 1997 Division II state title and finishing second in 1998, Woodbridge moved up to Division I and won the 1999 state title, its second in three years.
In 2001 the team was back in Division II, earning a sixth-place state finish. Varvas also is the founder of the Woodbridge Invitational, which has grown over the years to become the nation’s third largest cross-country event.
Varvas is still involved as an assistant coach at Woodbridge and still is active with the Woodbridge Invitational.
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Narbonne High School
“Be a good person first, a good student second and a good player third.”
-James Anderson
“Be a good person first, a good student second and a good player third.”
-James Anderson
James Anderson
Narbonne High School
Impact Statement
“Be a good person first, a good student second and a good player third.”
-James Anderson
Biography
Anderson has coached at Harbor City High for nine years, with a career record of 182-45. His teams won the state’s Division I title in 1999 and 2000, and also have won three Los Angeles City Section titles and six Marine League titles. A world history teacher, Anderson also was selected National Coach of the Year by SchoolSports.com.
Anderson lead Narboone to two national titles, three state championships, and six City titles during his 16 year career. He has a record of 388-54 during his tenure.
Anderson stepped down from his post in 2006. A year later he took at job coaching at St. Anthony’s, his alma mater. He led the Saints to a CIF State Championship in 2010, 2011, and 2016.
Anderson has coached several WNBA players over the course of his career.
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Clarksville High School
“I can take losing, but you cannot quit. That’s not an option.” -Jeff Jordan
“I can take losing, but you cannot quit. That’s not an option.” -Jeff Jordan
Jeff Jordan
Clarksville High School
Impact Statement
“I can take losing, but you cannot quit. That’s not an option.” -Jeff Jordan
Biography
Jeff Jordan completed his eighth season as head coach at Clarksville High School this year (2001).
In 2000, he coached the Wildcats to the state’s Division I dual and individual team titles, a feat never previously accomplished by a school outside the Nashville or greater Chattanooga areas, and finished second in the state duals and third in the state individual tournament this year. Prior to coaching at Clarksville, Jordan coached for 8 years at Franklin High, serving as the school’s head coach from 1984-1989.
His 1989 Franklin team won the individual state championship, at that time becoming the first public school outside the Chattanooga to win a state title, and was the state dual runner up. His Franklin teams were 78-11-1, for an overall record of 284-41-1. Jordan is one of only two coaches in Tennessee history to coach two different teams to state titles.
He also coached 7 individual state champions and one NHSCA Senior All American. Jordan accomplished this success with four-year wrestlers who never wrestled prior to high school.
That retirement didn’t last long. In 2012, Jordan left the mat behind but managed to make his way to the soccer field. As the head coach of the girls’ soccer team, he led them to the school’s first state appearance.
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Wilson High School
“To me, coaching is all about relationships.”
-Dave Crowell
“To me, coaching is all about relationships.”
-Dave Crowell
Dave Crowell
Wilson High School
Impact Statement
“To me, coaching is all about relationships.”
-Dave Crowell
Biography
In nine seasons as Wilson High School’s head coach, Dave Crowell has elevated the Warriors to one of Pennsylvania’s AA powers on a year-to-year basis. This year Wilson Area enjoyed one of their best seasons ever. The Warriors piled up a 19-1-1 record in dual meets, winning the Class AA dual state title and finishing fourth in the individual state tournament.
Early in the 2000 season, Wilson Area took on two of the Lehigh Valley’s Class AAA powers, scoring a big 37-19 victory over Nazareth before cross-town rival Easton High handed them their only loss this season, a 29-21 defeat. Crowell was the head coach at Easton High prior to coming to Wilson Area from 1977-1984, after spending the 1976-77 season as the assistant.
The 19-1-1 record was the second best in school history. Crowell’s career record at Wilson Area stands at 135-39-1. He became the all time leader in victories among the 9 head coaches in Wilson history.
After the 2002-03 season, Crowell resigned his post and took over as the head coach of Nazareth High School. In the next step of his journey he’s led Nazareth to national prominence.
Throughout his career Crowell has led his teams to 7 PIAA Individual State Team Championships, 3 PIAA State Dual Team Championships, 8 District XI Team Titles, 10 District XI Individual Team Titles, and 13 League Championships as of the end of the 2019 season. He has also coached 22 State Champions, 44 State Finalists, and 95 State Place Winners. Nazareth had boasted a State Finalist for 16 consecutive years until 2020.
Crowell is the only wrestling coach in the state to coach a state champion and win at least one PIAA State Individual Tournament championship at three different high schools – Easton, Wilson, and Nazareth respectively. He’s also the first to be voted the PA Coach of the Year in AA and AAA.
Most recently, Crowell’s Blue Eagles won the 2020 PIAA AAA Team Duals with a 38-21 victory over Waynesburg Central for second time in four years. Crowell was also named the Morning Call’s Coach of the Year. Crowell has complied 550 career victories after this season.
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Kearney High School
“We set a new paradigm years ago when we created a different process for developmental programs.” -Roger Mathiesen
“We set a new paradigm years ago when we created a different process for developmental programs.” -Roger Mathiesen
Roger Mathiesen
Kearney High School
Impact Statement
“We set a new paradigm years ago when we created a different process for developmental programs.” -Roger Mathiesen
Biography
Mathiesen led Kearney High to its eighth consecutive Class A state title last week and his team was rated No. 7 nationally entering this season (2001). He would lead Kearney to 11 in a row from 1994-2004.
His teams had won 123 consecutive multi-school meets between 1993-2014. This is longest such streak in the nation according to the NFHS. Since 1987, Kearney High had won 112 of 118 such events, finishing second in the other six. Mathiesen’s teams have won 22 state tournament titles in 14 different events ,19 since the consecutive state title streak began in 1994, and hold nine state records.
Mathiesen lead Kearney to be 1st or 2nd in the State tournament 22 times during his tenure. After 38 years and 16 State Championships, Mathiesen retired in 2018.
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Phoenixville High school
A self taught tennis coach who became mayor of Phoenixville.
A self taught tennis coach who became mayor of Phoenixville.
Leo Scoda
Phoenixville High school
Impact Statement
A self taught tennis coach who became mayor of Phoenixville.
Biography
Scoda never played tennis prior to his days as a student at Penn State University, but became the coach of Phoenixville High’s first tennis team in 1963 and has held the position ever since. Scoda retired after 51 years in 2014. The self-taught player turned the Phantoms into one of southeastern Pennsylvania’s most successful programs.
His dual meet record entering this season (2001) was 460-70, including a streak of 127 consecutive Pioneer Athletic Conference (PAC) victories. His team won 11 titles as a member of the Ches-Mont League and has won all 15 PAC titles since the conference was created. Scoda was inducted into the USTA Middle States Tennis Patrons Hall of Fame in 1998.
Scoda also coaches the girls’ tennis team from 1977 until 1982 and had a record of 61-17. Scoda finished his career with a record of 699-126.
In addition to his coaching and leadership of the summer tennis program, Scoda was also mayor of Phoenixville for four terms.
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St. Xavier High School
Coffman led his teams to 23 State Titles over the course of his career at St. Xavier’s.
Coffman led his teams to 23 State Titles over the course of his career at St. Xavier’s.
Dave Coffman
St. Xavier High School
Impact Statement
Coffman led his teams to 23 State Titles over the course of his career at St. Xavier’s.
Biography
Coffman helped maintain St. Xavier High’s reputation as a national swimming power by coaching the Bombers to nine state championships before retiring after the 1997 season.
St. Xavier’s performances, the school has won 23 state titles overall, were a major factor in the Cincinnati area’s rise to prominence as a national swimming hotbed, joining Florida and California.
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North Allegheny High School
Retired as Pennsylvania’s most winningest soccer coach.
Retired as Pennsylvania’s most winningest soccer coach.
Bruno Schwarz
North Allegheny High School
Impact Statement
Retired as Pennsylvania’s most winningest soccer coach.
Biography
After completing his playing career at the University of Pittsburgh in 1968, Schwarz became coach at newly opened North Allegheny High School. As the school’s only boys soccer coach ever, Schwarz has built a powerhouse.
Under his direction North Allegheny finished second in 1976, 1996, and 1999. This year, 2000, Schwarz returned just three starters from a team that entered the 1999 title game with a perfect 26-0 record, and also had to rebound from a loss in this year’s region final, but won the school’s first title, 1-0 over Emmaus High.
Schwarz retired from North Allegheny High School in 2005 as the winningest soccer coach in PIAA history with a career record of 516-168-46. Over the course of his career he led the Tigers to seven WPIAL titles and one PIAA Championship.
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Grandville High School
“Golf is a game that has a lot of hills and valleys. You don’t want to be in a valley come the end of the season.”
-David Hutton
“Golf is a game that has a lot of hills and valleys. You don’t want to be in a valley come the end of the season.”
-David Hutton
David Hutton
Grandville High School
Impact Statement
“Golf is a game that has a lot of hills and valleys. You don’t want to be in a valley come the end of the season.”
-David Hutton
Biography
In his 32 years as Grandville High’s head coach, Hutton’s teams have posted a dual-meet record of 439-154-8 and qualified for the Class A state tournament 18 times, winning state titles in 1976 and 1988. The Michigan Interscholastic Golf Coaches Association (MIGCA) selected him Coach of the Year both years, and the Michigan High School Coaches Association named him Coach of the Year in 1977 and 1988.
Hutton has served 22 years as a MICGA board member and two terms as president, 1984-86 and 1996-98. The MICGA inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 1993. The National Coaches Federation named Hutton one of eight finalists for its National Coach of the Year award this season. The National High School Athletic Coaches Association named him Region IV Coach of the Year in 1987. Hutton also coached Grandville High’s hockey team for 17 seasons and had a career record of 212-189-23.
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Stevens Point High School
Behnke has lead SPASH to qualify for the State Tournament 41 of 43 years under his helm.
Behnke has lead SPASH to qualify for the State Tournament 41 of 43 years under his helm.
Donn Behnke
Stevens Point High School
Impact Statement
Behnke has lead SPASH to qualify for the State Tournament 41 of 43 years under his helm.
Biography
Since Wisconsin’s state cross country tournament was expanded to multiple classes in 1949, no coach has won more state team titles than Behnke, who has led Stevens Point High to seven Class A/Division I titles. Behnke’s teams were state champions in 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1994, 1997, and 1998, while finishing second in 1982, 1984, and 1990. He guided the 2001 year’s team to a sixth-place state finish.
Behnke’s success didn’t end there. He has continued to lead the SPASH (Stevens Point Area Senior High School) team to 41 state appearances during his 43 years. SPASH won the State Tournament in 2003, 2008 and 2013; while finishing second in 2006, 2007, 2014 and 2017.
In 2019, SPASH also finished second in the state for the 9th time under Behnke’s leadership. Stevens Point also made school history when they qualified for the National tournament, which only features 22 high school teams from around the nation.
Behnke is also a published author. He wrote a book called The Animal Keepers that tells the true story of the Stevens Point High School cross country team and their unforgettable journey through the 1985 season.
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Schaumburg High School
“I knew I wouldn’t be playing organized ball forever. I knew I would be coaching for the rest of my life.” -Bob Williams
“I knew I wouldn’t be playing organized ball forever. I knew I would be coaching for the rest of my life.” -Bob Williams
Bob Williams
Schaumburg High School
Impact Statement
“I knew I wouldn’t be playing organized ball forever. I knew I would be coaching for the rest of my life.” -Bob Williams
Biography
In his 10th season, Williams led Schaumburg High to a 29-3 record and the state’s Class AA basketball championship. Without a Division I prospect on his team, Williams guided the Saxons to a 66-54 championship-game victory over South Holland Thornwood High, which featured 6-foot-11 superstar Eddy Curry who was projected to be a high lottery pick in the upcoming NBA Draft. One Chicago columnist compared Williams’ coaching ability to that of the state’s all-time leading winner, Virgil Fletcher of downstate Collinsville High. He also led Schaumburg High to a fourth-place state finish in 1999 and made the Elite Eight in 2008.
In 2009, Williams retired from Schaumburg as one of the most successful coaches in Illinois history. He complied a career record of 443-273 in 18 seasons while at Schaumburg. Williams then went to West Nile High School for the 2009-2017 season before becoming the Head Coach at the Benedictine Military School in 2017.
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Westminster Academy
“The first thing is you have to establish a system that you want to teach, that you believe in, but you have to make it fit your players.” -Rich Hofman
“The first thing is you have to establish a system that you want to teach, that you believe in, but you have to make it fit your players.” -Rich Hofman
Rich Hofman
Westminster Academy
Impact Statement
“The first thing is you have to establish a system that you want to teach, that you believe in, but you have to make it fit your players.” -Rich Hofman
Biography
Hofman has received many awards during a coaching career that spans 30 years. He has won 10 Florida state titles, eight at Westminster Christian School in Miami between 1981 and 1998 and two more at Westminster Academy in 1999 and 2000. His 1992 and 1996 teams were consensus high school national champions, and USA Today named him its National Coach of the Year both years. This year’s team finished 27-7 and reached the Class 2A state quarterfinals. He owns a career record of 787-196.
Hofman also runs the Rich Hofman Baseball School and has coached many great players, including Major League Baseball’s highest-paid player, Alex Rodriguez of the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees.
In 1999, Hofman was named National Coach of the Decade by Baseball America magazine. A nine-time Coach of the Year selection by the Florida Athletic Coaches Association, Hofman was named National High School Baseball Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association in 1988, 1996, and 1999, and by the National Federation of Interscholastic Coaches of Athletics and the National High School Athletic Coaches Association in 1997. He was inducted into the Florida Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1992 and the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1993.
Hofman came out of retirement and took over the University School of Nova Southeastern University program in 2010. On Tuesday, April 10th, Hofman did what few have done. He won his 1,000 career victory. In 2013, he left for a position as the Athletic Director and Baseball coach at the new SLAM Academy, Sports Leadership And Management Charter School in Maimi. SLAM was the first all sports elective high school in the country.
He then went on to coach Stoneman Douglas High School and won their first 9A State Championship. The Eagles were deemed the National Champions, giving Hofman his 3rd National title.
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