M.E. “Bus” Whitehead – Scottsbluff.
Athlete. One of the few big men in the state in his day at 6’8’, Bus Whitehead graduated from Scottsbluff High School in 1945. An outstanding senior year contributed to a trip to Lincoln for the Class A State Basketball Championship. One of the few losses for the season was in the finals when Scottsbluff […]
Don Benning – Omaha North & UNO
Coach. Setting a high standard for athletes of all ages, this educator and coach returned to the Omaha University after earning a graduate degree in 1963, he served in several capacities, including head wrestling coach. His college wrestling team brought the first ever collegiate national championship in wrestling to the state of Nebraska in 1970, […]
Scott Bream – Millard South
Class of 1989 Athlete Scott Bream’s eight-year minor league baseball career had its moments but was limited by injuries. But nothing slowed the Millard South star in high school. He earned All-Metro honors at quarterback and all-state honors as a shortstop, and he started at point guard on Millard South’s undefeated state championship basketball team. […]
Sue Lind Nelson – Albion
Athlete. A 1981 graduate of Albion High School in Boone County, she was the first athlete in Nebraska high school girls’ track and field to win a gold medal in the same event each year of her high school career, 1978-1979-1989- 1981. She bettered her own initial mark in the high jump from 5’8” her […]
Leo McKillip – McCook
Athlete. Several political legends and public servants have walked within the fair city of McCook, Nebraska, but this 1947 graduate of McCook High School is one of the leading athletic legends. Known as a triple-threat in the high school sports of football, basketball and track; he helped the Bison run roughshod over opposition on the […]
Con Marshall – Chadron
Contributor. Con Marshall worked as the Sports Information Director at Chadron State College from 1969 until he retired in 2007, at the same time developing an interest in high school sports in the Nebraska Panhandle. Marshall undertook the painstaking project of compiling football records for the high school teams in the 11 Panhandle counties. He […]
Glenn Presnell – DeWitt
Athlete. An all-state football player from DeWitt, Glenn went on to UN-L where he was all-conference for two years and part of the team that beat Illinois and Red Grange in 1925. After college Glenn moved on to pro football passing up a contract with the New York Giants to play for the Ironton, Ohio […]
Phyllis Rice-Honnor – Centennial
Coach. In 30 years as volleyball coach at Centennial, Phyllis (Rice) Honnor posted a 459-151 record and led her team to the state tournament 12 times. Centennial won state championships in 1984, 1985 and 1987 and finished second in 1998. Her teams won 14 subdistrict and 12 district championships. Centennial’s volleyball team was ranked in […]
Harold Scott – Lincoln High
Coach. Harold took the head coaching job in track at Lincoln High in 1954 and held that position longer than any other coach, nearly 30 years. He organized the Links’ first cross-country team that year, pioneering that sport’s recognition in Nebraska. Although he assisted in other sports he is best known for his compilation of […]
C. Dale Snook – Lincoln University High School
Coach. In the last assembly before Lincoln’s University High closed its doors forever, the athletes presented coach Dale Snook a plaque inscribed with: “To coach, who gave us reasons to win, not excuses.” His philosophy of rejecting excuses served University High well. In the 19 years he coached the school’s basketball and track teams, the […]
