2017- Lincoln Southeast Championship Factory

Seven  State Championships headlined a banner year for the Southeast Knights.  Champions in Boys and Girls Cross Country, Football, Girls Gymnastics, Boys Swimming, Girls Basketball, and Boys Golf.

2016- Football/Basketball, Bertrand

Silver Anniversary Team: Bertrand football and basketball, 1991-92. The Vikings went 13-0 in football while winning the Class C-2 state championship, then went 22-1 in basketball to complete the sweep.

2016-Basketball-Lincoln Pius X

Silver Anniversary Team: Lincoln Pius X girls basketball, 1991-92. The Thunderbolts went 25-0 while winning the Class B state title. The seniors graduated with a three-year record of 70-2.

1995 – Basketball: 1971 Lincoln East Spartans

There were Nebraska high school teams more heavily favored to be a state champion in their sport than Lincoln East’s 1970-71 boys basketball team. The Spartans weren’ t necessarily big by basketball standards. They had a scrap on their hands just to get out of districts. What sets the Hall of Fame’s Silver Anniversary Team […]

1996 – Basketball: Columbus Discovers, 1971-72

Do you know how many teams not from Omaha or Lincoln have won the state’s big school basketball championship in the last 40 high school seasons (written in 1996)? Three: Fremont in 1961, Columbus in 1972 and Norfolk in 1987. And Silver Anniversary team winner, the ’72 Columbus bunch, won its title at the Nebraska […]

1997 – Basketball: Fairbury, 1973

Roster: Greg Rosener Bob Kujath Mark Hansen Mark Bangert Greg Gibson Dell Schmidt John Krause Russ Vanous Bob Parks Bob Siegel Roger Stewart Kim Kujath Greg Hansmire, Student Manager Ken Milius, Student Manager Coaches Charlie Moore, Head Coach Don Mahlman, Assistant Coach The team ended the ’73 season with a record of 25-2 and a […]