Jeff Bellar- Norfolk Catholic
Coach As Nebraska’s all-time leader with 363 football coaching victories entering the 2020 season, Jeff Bellar’s 38-year coaching career includes nine state championships, five runner-up finishes and 34 playoff appearances. Six of his teams went undefeated. In three years at Beaver Valley at the start of his career, he led the team to the school’s […]
Jerome Skrdla-Gretna
Coach Jerome Skrdla, who ranked sixth in state history at the time of his induction with 560 victories as a girls basketball coach, has coached three schools to the state tournament, winning three state championships — at Kearney Catholic in 1984 and 1985 and Gretna in 2006. His Kearney Catholic team strung together 55 consecutive […]
CLASS OF 2020
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2013
GREAT MOMENTS- 2013 Girls Basketball- “The 1987-88 Gibbon Girls Basketball Team.” In the Class C-1 State Championship game, the second-ranked Gibbon girls (24-0) had been behind #1 ranked Fremont Bergan (25-0) for the entire game; however, with Bergan leading 46-42 with 22 seconds left, the Gibbon girls outscored Bergan 5-0 and won 47-46, thus […]
2008
GREAT MOMENTS- 2008 Track and Field: Randal Carter of Papillion-LaVista High School Clearing 7’4″ at the 2007 State Track and Field Championships, Randal Carter broke his own state record of 7’3″ set during the 2007 season. The previous Class A record was 7’0″. Girls Basketball: “The […]
KETV Special
Rob McCartney shows another side of legendary coach Tom Osborne. A portion of the programs was filmed at the Hall of Fame. https://www.ketv.com/article/tom-osborne-special/29319132
2019-Norfolk-1993-94
2019- Amherst Wrestling
From 2006-2017 Amherst High School dominated Class D wrestling. During that 12 year period, Amherst accumulated 8 State Championships, 4 State Runner-up finishes plus winning the first 5 State Dual titles after NSAA initiated the Dual Championships in 2013. The Broncos crowned 21 State Individual Champions during that time. Tyler Herman was the Head Coach […]
2018- Spencer-Naper Boys’ Basketball
1999-2007 Under the direction of Head Coach Jim Carlson and Assistant Coach Ron Kopecky, the Spencer-Naper Pirates compiled a record of 216 wins and 19 losses from 1999-2007. Six of those losses were to State Champions. At one point during this time period they had and 82-1 record, a 58 game win streak, seven straight […]
2019
GREAT MOMENTS- 2019 Basketball- “He Can’t Miss” Lincoln Northeast 1964 The year was 1964, and Lincoln Northeast traveled to South Sioux City in snowy, blizzard conditions. The Rockets’ bus even went off the road in route. Little did the state know that night, a senior from LNE would break a Class A State Record that […]