Vol. 46 No. 1 Published by the Minnesota State High School Coaches Association September 2008 CHALLENGED LIKE NEVER BEFORE MSHSCA OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS CALLED TO DO MUCH MORE PRESIDENT: Another year of high school athletics a very unique partnership that all of us David Johnson has started. Athletes, Coaches and Par- need to support in the future. The Marshall School, Duluth ents have gathered to attend information The need to support these wonderful meetings and be given their practice opportunities our young people enjoy has PRESIDENT-ELECT: equipment for another year of exciting never faced more challenges to their con- Don Tangen - Glencoe-Silver Lake high school athletics. Months of prepa- tinuation than they do today. Declining ration has been put in by thousands of enrollments and school funding that has VICE PRESIDENT: athletes in the weight rooms, speed and not kept up with the needs of schools are Shelly Hotzler - Jackson County Central strength sessions and captains practices. creating challenges for our schools and Coaches have unselfishly given up their the athletic programs as we know them. PAST PRESIDENTS: summers and their family time to provide Our student athletes are being asked to Gregg Martig - St. Cloud Tech. opportunities for athletes to participate pay ever increasing participation fees. and improve. The time has arrived to The challenge of paying these fees is, in HALL OF FAME COORDINATORS reap the reward for all the hard work and many cases, forcing our student athletes Jim & Janet Baker - Richfield preparation to choose just one or two sports rather There is always an air of excitement than the three sports they used to play. OFFICIALS DSA and expectations as schools and commu- School districts are faced with the very John Schumacher, Park Rapids nities rally behind their high school teams difficult task of getting referendums hoping this will be the year that champi- passed in their districts to support school All Daily Communications should be addressed to: onships will be the reward for their team’s programs at a time when tax payers are EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: great efforts. This excitement and antic- facing increasing strains on their own John Erickson ipation cannot be played out in any other budgets. These are all challenges we face MSHSCA arena of sports. Our high school pro- but they are challenges we must meet PO Box 519 • Detroit Lakes, MN 56502 grams offer greater opportunities to a head on if we are to continue providing Fax (218) 847-5493 greater number of participants than any opportunities that we know are important (H) (218) 847-6796 other venues of opportunities. The high in the lives of our student athletes. Email: [email protected] school programs also work hand in hand Coaches!!! It is time we all step for- with schools in their expectations for stu- ward to sell the value of high school ADMINISTRATIVE ASS’T: dent academic excellence and adherence sports. We, the coaches of high school Mary Erickson, Detroit Lakes to behavioral expectations. The schools, sports, need to get the message out that communities and athletic programs all what we do for our student athlete is of MSHSL BOARD OF DIRECTORS: work closely together to shepherd young great value. What we do for our athletes Mindy Sparby - NHREG men and women through their high cannot be duplicated at any other level John Schumacher, Park Rapids school years and into adulthood. This is . continued on page 5 www.mshsca.org 2 MINNESOTA PREP COACH The Minnesota Section 6 SPORT ASSOCIATION SOFTBALL PREP COACH Diane Petits - Sebeka DELEGATES Shelly Hotzler - Gary Vorachek, Osakis ADAPTED ATHLETICS Jackson County Central • Mike Peterson, Perham Barb Becker - Bloomington Stacey Schoenrock - Published quarterly by the Minnesota Tom Van Erp, Wadena-Deer Creek Schools State High School Coaches Elk River - Treas. Association and distributed, without Section 7 ATHLETIC DIRECTORS charge, to all members in good Brian Sandberg, Aitkin Fred Sailer - Perham BOYS SWIMMING standing. Lyle Anderson, Cook County Pete Veldman - Sec’y, South St. Paul Nathan Linscheid - EDITOR - Darien DeRocher Dennis Holsman - Hill City Address all news communications Bloomington Jefferson •Jon Wagner - Eveleth-Gilbert BASEBALL and photos to: Rick Ringeisen - Lakeville Bruce Davis - Montgomery- Darien DeRocher B&G SW Secretary Section 8 7101 Browns Ln Lonsdale Wayne Folkers, Crookston Brainerd MN 56401-6040 John Wilkens - Sec’y, GIRLS SWIMMING Phone (218) 825-8466 John Schumacher, Park Rapids St Michael-Albertville Fax ( 218) 825-8466 Al Colligan, Mahnomen Mike Veneziano - Hibbing e-mail: [email protected] Craig Oftedahl - Warroad BOYS BASKETBALL Rick Ringeisen - Lakeville Mid-April to December Kris Fadness - Austin B&G SW Secretary e-mail: [email protected] Tom Critchley - Sec’y, January to Mid-April CLASS AA DELEGATES Roseville Area Section 1 SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING 2007-2008 DELEGATES Terry Heiderscheit, Rochester John GIRLS BASKETBALL Katy Bohnsack - Prior Lake Marshall Bill Gottenborg - Hawley RETIRED COACHES Jeff Williams, Owatonna Jenny Johnson - Sec’y, Edina BOYS AND GIRLS TENNIS Ch uck Elias, Minneapolis • Rod Schwartz, Winona Scott Engelstad - Bemidji Jim Dotseth - Chaska John Cassellius, Winona BOYS AND GIRLS CROSS Mike Cartwright - Moundsview COUNTRY Sec’y MSHSL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Section 2 Dave Chatelaine - Owatonna Mindy Sparby - NRHEG Mike Lhotka, Dassel - Cokato Dave Bauer - Brooklyn Center John Schumacher - Park Rapids • Don Tangen, Glencoe-Silver Lake Treas. BOYS AND GIRLS TRACK Tim Johnson, Mankato East AND FIELD “Tink” Larson, Waseca FOOTBALL CLASS A DELEGATES Dave Wieber - Faribault Shannon Gerrety - Blaine Scott Christensen - Stillwater - Sec’y Section 1 Section 3 Jim Dotseth - Chaska Mike Jeppson, Plainview Gordy Genz, Roseville Area Ron Stolski, Executive Director - • Gordon Klomps, Zumbrota- VOLLEYBALL • Jerry Utecht, St Paul Harding Brainerd Mazeppa Gerald Keenan, St Paul Harding Lonnie Morken - Mabel-Canton Gary Prantner, Byron Jim O’Neil, Cretin-Derham Hall Jeff Johnson, Chatfield BOYS AND GIRLS GOLF Todd Petterson - Red Wing WRESTLING Section 2 Section 4 Paul Cyr - NRHEG Rob Stervermer, United South Erin Herman, Hill-Murrray GIRLS GYMNASTICS Mark O’Neill, Champlin Park Wendy Rooney - Cambridge-Isanti Central • Donotes Section Chairpersons • Bruce Belseth, Sleepy Eye • Tom Paulson, White Bear Lake Shelly Eklund - Worthington Rick Bruns - LeSueur-Henderson Sec’y Treas. Donna Johansen - Murray County Section 5 Central • Mark Loahr, Totino Grace BOYS HOCKEY MANY Jerry Hayes - Apply Valley ARTICLES ARE Section 3 Section 6 Mike Macmillan - Sec’y Buffalo Dave Blank, Wabasso Greg Miller, Robbinsdale SUBMITTED BY • Milo Larson, Canby Armstrong BOYS LACROSSE A DESIGNATED Roger Lindahl, Benson • Jim Baker, Richfield Adam Crane - Wayzata MEMBER OF Todd Tinklenberg, Pipestone Dave Bole, Richfield Bruce Kugath - Shakopee GIRLS LACROSSE PARTICULAR Section 4 Sarah Bourne - Columbia Heights SPORT • Jeff Wall, Maranatha Christian Section 7 ASSOCIATIONS Chris Laird, Heritage Christian Mark Solberg, Cambridge-Isanti BOYS AND GIRLS NORDIC SKIING Academy • Bill Baumann, North Branch Mike Hecker - Andover & ARE NOT Tim Herman, Heritage Christian Dave Hylla, Proctor NECESSARILY Academy Joel McDonald, Hibbing BOYS AND GIRLS ALPINE SKIING Greg Sayuk, Southwest Christian THE FEELINGS OF Robert Teslow - The Blake School Section 8 Bob Hakkinen - Robinsdale OTHER SPORT Section 5 Jon Roesch, Sauk Rapids-Rice • Tom Lawrence, Foley Armstrong ASSOCIATIONS, Bill Magnuson, Sauk Rapids Rice Al Amdahl - Albany THE MSHSCA OR • Rob Nielsen, Detroit Lakes BOYS AND GIRLS SOCCER Dawn Engebretson - Rockford THE EDITOR. Jay Johnson, Eden Valley -Watkins Russ Hinrichs, Alexandria Pat Malicki - Woodbury Kris Hagen - St. Cloud Tech Dave Halgren - Sec’y, Elk River GATORADE...Official Sport Drink of the MSHSCA MINNESOTA PREP COACH 3 Message By: Dave Johnson - Marshall School, Duluth, MN President’s President MSHSCA Legacy depending upon the situation that we portant groups of people. This summer the coaches association find ourselves in. If we belittle and dis- Learning lost two very important members. courage the efforts of our less skilled Each president of the MSHSCA is Dave Hylla of Proctor and Name Name athletes then we teach the idea that only tasked to develop a president’s project. of City passed away at far too young of the “best” player’s efforts make a dif- My goal during this year as president is age. As an association we grieve the ference. to increase the opportunities that our as- passing of two coaches who really If on the other hand we coach our ath- sociation offers for coaches’ education. made a difference in our organization letes to play for the love of the game At the October 4th MSHSCA Delegate and most importantly in the lives of the and the joy of competition then we meeting I have invited Dr. Nicole LaVoi student/athletes who they coached. teach them how to win and lose grace- to speak to the delegates. Dr. LaVoi’s While reading the newspaper account fully. If we enforce respectful language research falls within the social psychol- of Dave Hylla’s death, I was struck by and behavior at all times and in all sit- ogy of sports. She enjoys working col- the emphasis that the writer placed uations, then we teach our athletes the laboratively with faculty and graduate upon the legacy that Dave had created. value of self control. If we affirm the students in the Tucker Center (Univer- Each interview with an athlete who had efforts of all players regardless