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The Nebraska High School Hall of Fame Foundation Board of Directors has
approved the appointment of Larry Munksgaard as its new executive
director.
The action came at the board of directors’ December meeting
in York. Munksgaard replaces Randy Bates, who resigned in May.
“I have a passion for halls of fame,” said Munksgaard, who is
the chairman of the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators
Association Hall of Fame. He also helped create the Lincoln Southeast
Hall of Fame, which held its first inductions in January of 2010. “I’m
really proud of what we have in both of those situations,” he said. “I
really feel strongly that it’s important to recognize the history of
sports whatever level it is.”
Munksgaard brings nearly 20 years of involvement in Nebraska
high school sports to the post. He was the athletic director at Lincoln
Southeast from 1996 to 2010, and the Hall of Fame honored the Knights
for a decade of excellence in the 1990s.
While at Lincoln Southeast, Munksgaard was a driving force
behind establishing the statewide sportsmanship summit, now in its ninth
year, and the Sportsmanship Awards at the boys and girls state
basketball tournaments.
Prior to his tenure at Lincoln Southeast, Munksgaard was
athletic director at Cedar Falls High School in Cedar Falls, Iowa, for
15 years.
The Hall of Fame Foundation is a non-profit organization
operating for more than 20 years with the idea of preserving the history
of high school sports. It makes several awards annually honoring
individuals and teams and has inducted more than 300 athletes, coaches
and/or contributors at its annual induction ceremony. Its goal is to
establish a Hall of Fame facility that will preserve the rich heritage
of Nebraska high school athletics and serve as a repository for
memorabilia in the Nebraska School Activities Association office
building at 500 Charleston St., Lincoln.
Finding the funding necessary to open the Hall of Fame’s
Exhibit Hall is the biggest challenge facing Munksgaard and the
foundation.
“Getting the exhibit hall up and operating, that would be without
question the No. 1 goal,” Munksgaard said. “The induction ceremony and
the selection process have been really well done. … Those things are
pretty well established. We need to get the exhibit hall going so people
can come and see the people who have been enshrined and the other parts
of the Hall of Fame we want to see get going.”
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The Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame Foundation
inducted 13 athletes, five coaches, two contributors and
two officials at its Sept. 25 induction ceremony
at the Lied Center in Lincoln.
Information about the honored has been
placed under 2011 in the various award categories.
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Inductees Joanne Kappas (left)
and Jessica Haynes
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Photos by Martin Photography, Omaha
Local (402) 333-3393 Toll-Free (866) 837-5023 |
Inductee Dean Brittenham (right),
with president Jack Guggenmos
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READ ONLINE NEWSLETTER, SUMMER OF 2011
Welcome to the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame Foundation Website!
The Hall of Fame Foundation is a non-profit organization operating for more
than 20 years with the idea of preserving the history of high school sports. It
makes several awards annually honoring individuals and teams and has inducted
more than 240 athletes, coaches and/or contributors, including some of the great
names in Nebraska sports such as Gale Sayers, Johnny Rodgers, Carol Frost, the
Fischer family, Tom Kropp, Nancy Kindig-Malone, Bob Gibson, Bob Boozer, Amy
Stephens and Tom Osborne.
Address: 500 Charleston Street, Lincoln.
Mailing Address: PO Box 83972, Lincoln, 68501-3972
Office Telephone: 402-476-4767. Contact by
email.
We Have a Good Cause: Please Help Us Out
The Hall of Fame is working on a capital fund drive with a goal of
$1.5. Thanks to a sizeable donation by a person preferring anonymity, the drive
has surpassed $500,000.
The goal has been determined as a minimum requirement to provide an
entertaining, modern presentation of Nebraska high school sports' past in the
7,000 square foot area.
For more information or to make a
contribution, please contact
any of the board members listed elsewhere in this website (board).
DONATION FORM
or
DONATE
ONLINE
The NSAA's new building... where the Hall of Fame has a home.
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Upcoming Events You Shouldn’t Miss
Golf Scramble,
June 23, 2012, at Cambridge. A celebrity golfer will be invited. Director Del
Schoenfish.
2012 Hall of Fame Ceremony, Sunday, October 7, 2012, Lincoln, Lied Center.
========== ===========A 1934 poster promoting
with first 6-man football
game. See
interesting story about
this Nebraska created game.

**Please forward any stories/web casts/pod casts on the Hall of Fame throughout
the year to golopers@aol.com,
buck_mahoney@charter.net or
jensenpub@hamilton.net**
Miracle
On Vine Street
Go
here
to see a video clip of one of the greatest moments in Nebraska High School
Sports, the Miracle on Vine Street in 1971. Dick Janda's excellent news work 10
years later re-plays and an analysis of the last minute heroics.
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